Repeated mindfulness mediation seems to help an individual to recognize and step out of his recurrent patterns of thinking, thus reducing rumination. Repeated practice can help an individual to learn that thoughts, feelings, sensations come and go. Mindfulness meditation also involves an attitude of acceptance to thoughts and feelings, whether they are pleasant and unpleasant, and, thus, may reduce the experiential avoidance that maintains rumination. Finally, mindfulness involves direct contact with experience without evaluations and judgments – as such it will reduce the abstract, evaluative thinking characteristic of depressive rumination.