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Well in my case the behaviour is a lack of behaviour, i.e complete shutdown when the emotions are so repressed. It's kind of hard to observe anything about that.
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To me, mindfulness here does have something to observe: the state of blockedness, the shutdown itself. A mindful approach would be to accept that at this moment, I am completely blocked, nonfunctional: let me sit with that, look at it carefully, try see what it is all about, have a "curious scientist" mentality about it, see if it changes at all, even in a tiny way, day to day. Accept and examine.
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Instead, what I'm trying to observe really is my insides, so it's about internal observations on the emotions inside me, really.
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To me, this is sort of a non-mindfulness approach. Your mind is saying "You can't have access to these right now", and you are saying "But that's what I want, I am going to try to figure out a way in anyways." A mindful approach, I think, would be to accept that the emotions are not available atm and be mindful of whatever is available...maybe a rigidity, a tightness, an unyieldingness, idk, maybe even a sense of self-judgment or helplessness perhaps?:
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I don't even have ANTs, I repress the emotions so much, and CBT is based on ANTs.
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In short: if one wants to explore mindfulness-based approaches, there is always something one can be mindful of.
