Table 1.

Schematic descriptions of FA and OM meditations

Focus Attention Meditation	- directing and sustaining attention on a selected object (e.g., breath sensation)
	- detecting mind wandering and distractors (e.g., thoughts)
	- disengagement of attention from distractors and shifting of attention back to the selected object
	- cognitive reappraisal of distractor (e.g. “just a thought”, “it is okay to be distracted”)
Open Monitoring Meditation	- no explicit focus on objects
	- non-reactive meta-cognitive monitoring (e.g. for novices, labeling of experience)
	- non-reactive awareness of automatic cognitive and emotional interpretations of sensory, perceptual and endogenous stimuli.