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John Teesdale, one of the co creators of mindfulness based cognitive therapy has differentiated between three mind modes, mindless emoting, conceptualizing doing and mindful being. They correspond rather closely to the mind topology proposed by Linehan, namely emotional mind, reasonable mind and wise mind. Both models assume that all three modes are accessible to us. In theory that we can switch between three mind modes multiple times during the day, depending on the circumstances. However, we might become inflexible in shifting from one mode to another. And some of us tend to get stuck in either of the first two, which might potentially result in psychopathology or a chronic physical condition. Yet mindful being or wise mind might not be accessible to some of us at all for various reasons. But all of us able to gain the access to it if we know how let's unpack each mode in more detail. As the name mindless Emmo would suggest we don't have much presence of mind in this mode. We also know this state as an automatic pilot, there's a lot of activity in this mind mode. Mind wandering daydreaming, ruminating about the past, worrying about the future, the mind is literally full as a consequence, we are oblivious to what is happening around us. In fact, we might not even be aware of what it is that our mind is full of. We might be able to become aware retrospectively if we asked where our mind was. But sometimes we don't even know as a mode of information processing, mindless Emmo is driven by habitual reactive patterns towards internal and external stimuli. This mode of mind is characterized by continuously shifting and fixating attention or mind wandering. It is the mode of kittens and puppies constantly changing each other. For many of us, it is a default mode when we are not involved in some purposeful activity that demands our attention. Although mindless demoting might be a pleasant daydream or mind wandering that is relatively neutral. The research shows that for most of us, most of the time, mindless emo is associated with processing that is based on rumination about the past or worry about the future and hence is associated with a negative effect of tone. In this mode. We are also driven by automatic judging of experiences as pleasant or unpleasant. It is the mode of likes and dislikes black and white thinking. When we operate in this mode, we react to situations based on our previous experiences of them taken to an extreme. This mode may manifest as psychopathologies characterized by anxiety, impulsivity, obsessiveness, and so on. Meet Brian. When Brian is resting on the steel lake in a mindless emoting mode. He doesn't notice much around him. His mind is full of memories of the past daydreams of distant lands or worries about the future whilst he is caught up and the worries about the future, he doesn't notice the weather has changed and he is now thrown about by the waves full of anxiety and panic, feeling, the victim of his circumstances, the storm has passed and even though the lake is still again and the sun is shining, Brian is now stuck in a loop of beating himself up about having missed the signs of storm with I should have, I could have thoughts. And if he's worried about the future storm without doing anything to prepare for it just threatening his mind with what ifs missing this wonderful weather, the sun and the birds and an opportunity to rest and recuperate before the waves become tall again. And they will as such as life conceptualizing mode as the name suggests, engages higher order conceptual elaborative processes which are analytical in nature such as writing a scientific report planning one's day. This mode of mind is characterized by selective, sustained attention. It is also referred to as doing mode because it requires cognitive effort. However, since this mind mode operates through the use of concepts and language that can only capture a certain aspect of what is going on at any particular time. It provides us with a limited view and a limiting filter or whatever it is that we are selecting for further analysis. It also uses what is called heuristics or information processing shorthand to reduce cognitive effort and to cope with our limited cognitive abilities that can often lead to biases in our decision making and action taken to its extreme and turned inwardly. This mode may manifest as a ruminative analytical thinking resulting in and sustaining depression. We're back to Brian. Now, Brian switches into the conceptualizing doing mode represented here by boat. He can have his mind and the weather under relative control. In this mode, he can get places and achieve goals. But the boat is an analogy for a mental box because our reliance on attention that only selects what we need in order to achieve our goals. And the use of conceptual linear analytical thinking ultimately gives us a very limited view of the world as represented here by the boat's windows. It also keeps us out of touch with our emotions, our senses and our bodies. When Brian was in mindless emo mode, the water was too wet for him. The sun was too hot and the storm was too scary. But now even though he's feeling relatively safe, he's missing feeling the sun, the wind and the water on his face, the sensation of the body floating and the joy of being connected with the elements. Moreover, his mind never stops trying to work out what is true and what is false. What is right and what is wrong? What is more important to go to point A to point B? He is also constantly finds himself having to defend his position with elegant arguments to himself and others as to why his boat is better than any other boat because that makes him feel safer. And when his boat fails him on an occasion, he gets caught up in analyzing what is wrong with his boat and how he's going to avoid it happening again. And he is just exhausted by it. Mindful experiencing of John Teesdale trilogy refers to an information processing mode characterized by non elaborative and non judgmental awareness of sensory, emotional conceptual content integrated into holistic meanings. It is also called mindful being because it feels effortless during rest. This mode of mind is characterized by an open field of awareness which has no preferences for any particular mental content. Instead, the information from multiple sources is attended to simultaneously on a moment by moment basis. During action, the field of awareness becomes vocalized on a particular mental set relevant to the context, but it doesn't fixate on this set. The focal point remains fluid and receptive if the priorities of the context changes now meet John. He's content floating on the lake in sunny weather, mindfully aware of what is around him, sensations in his body, any feelings or thoughts that are passing through his awareness, like the clouds in the sky as his awareness is open and spacious. He notices the thunder clouds at a distance and knows the storm is coming. He rides the waves on his surfboard. The storm was not a problem for him that he needs to control, but a challenge which he meet skillfully and instead of fear, he is experiencing the joy and excitement of riding the waves. His mind is alert and focused on serving, but his awareness is open to noticing the new waves coming and changing. John knows that you can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf the waves. In this analogy represent both the events in our environment as well as our mental responses to them such as thoughts and emotions. They are the movement of the mind that we can learn to serve without reacting to them or trying to control them or change them by analyzing them to summarize part 13 mind modes differ in three important aspects. The quality of attention, the information processing type and the quality of action. In theory, all three modes should be accessible to us. But in practice, we either shift frequently between mindless emoting and conceptualizing and doing or get stuck in either of these as our default mode.