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This is when the modules collide. To get our bearings, DBT is organized into 4 modules: Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, Emotional Regulation, and Interpersonal Effectiveness.
The current module is Distress Tolerance. This module is about tolerating or coping with stressful events when we are unable to solve the problem and when emotions tend to run high or out of control.
Mindfulness is a different unit.
Emotional Regulation is a different unit.
“Mindfulness of Current Thoughts” sounds like it could be utilized as a Mindfulness skill or an Emotional Regulation skill (addressing thinking). Yes, this is true.
This skill can also be effective as a Distress Tolerance skill. Be aware of thoughts while in emotion mind and let the thoughts “self-liberate” (disappear). Just observe, notice and let them go without following them.
Remembering that thoughts are just thoughts and we are not our thoughts is what this skill is about. Notice the thoughts and let them go.
Use any analogy the works for you such as imagining your thoughts are clouds in the sky, leaves in a stream, or a train on the tracks. Let them go by.
In the linked video, Jon Kabat-Zinn suggests imagining thoughts as bubbles that go “poof.”
Since this is Distress Tolerance, we let the thoughts go by without doing anything with them.
If we have the wherewithal to evaluate the thoughts, then perhaps Emotional Regulation skills would be more pertinent to the situation.