Table 2.

Psychological and neurocognitive models of mechanisms of MBIs.

Author	Type of model	Components
Shapiro et al., 2006	Psychological	Attention, attitude, intention
Baer et al., 2006	Psychological	Observing, describing, acting with awareness, non-judging of inner experiences and non-reactivity to inner experiences
Grabovac et al., 2011	Psychological	Acceptance, attention regulation, ethical practice and decreased attachment/aversion to feelings. Final pathway: decreased mental proliferation (rumination narrative based)
Vago and Silbersweig, 2012	Psychological-Neurocognitive	Intention and motivation, attention and emotion regulation, extinction, and reconsolidation, prosociality, non-attachment, and decentering. Final pathway: increasing self-awareness, self-regulation, self-trascendence
Hölzel et al., 2011a	Psychological-Neurocognitive	Attention regulation, body awareness, emotion regulation, and change in perspective of the self. Final pathway: increasing self-regulation
Lutz et al., 2015	Phenomenological-Neurocognitive	Primary (orthogonal) dimensions: object orientation, dereification, and meta-awareness. Secondary qualities: aperture, clarity, stability, and effort