By incorporating Mindfulness into daily life, one can, holding a decentered perspective, identify self-devaluative, hopeless thoughts for what they really are: thoughts. Disengagement will be easier for the practitioner as no action will be required to facilitate these “unreal” thoughts. Rumination is therefore not required as there is no goal to achieve since the thoughts are exactly that, thoughts.
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