ForeverLonelyGirl, also, no offense but I was in intense DBT class for 2 years & have continued on for the last 2 years in the "Next Step" DBT group. Took detailed notes of everything we were taught during those 2 years.......

My notes on Mindfulness.....
Core skills:
Be in control of mind, not mind in control of you (in other words don't allow emotional or reasonable mind be in control)
Control of attentional process....pay attention to what's going on around (be aware of the big picture)

What skills:
Observe:
open to everything that's going on around you (not stuck on any ONE thing)
Be alert to EVERYTHING....thoughts, feelings, actions
Step inside self & watch thoughts, feelings doing
notice senses

Describe
put words on feeling
connect to experience
words define what is happening, thought is not reality until in words

Participate
Become one with experience

mindfulness is seeing the big picture of what is going on around you relating to what your reasonable & emotional states of mind are dealing with & being able to identify & define so that you can integrate those states & come up with wise mind decisions to base your actions on.

Mindfulness was the unit that was placed between each of the other three sections.....so we got basically 6 times through mindfulness to the 2 times through each of the other sections