Living daily lives based on past sorrows and future worries, misleads people's minds to fail of recognition the value of present time. Negative experiences might cause the person to misinterpret and misjudge daily events and him/herself. For example, a person might think that he/she failed to succeed on the reason that he/she is a failor. The mindfulness and acceptance therapies, intent to ensure a person's life to be away from negative experiences and living life more attentive, caring, conscious and carefully. Hereby a person might choose for his/her a life suitable for the values that are important to him/her (graduating from the school, building a family, etc.). Therapies based on mindfulness are considered as a member of cognitive behavioral therapies as they work on cognition and change behavior, and these therapies reform a the metacognition. The concept of metacognition is the knowledge of the functioning of one's own thinking /cognitive processes. Avoiding negative emotions and thoughts is a way of negative coping. Such avoidance provides immediate relief, but prevents healing. The person can be healed only by recognition his/her dysfunctional negative way of thinking. Observing dissatisfied thoughts patiently, non-judging as good or bad, letting them go instead of taking them as a part of one's own personality, are steps of healing in mindfulness and acceptance based therapies. This state of emotion and thought can not be reached by self-enforcement. A life based on mindfulness requires long term practices. These practices are exercises such as breathtaking exercises, walking under rain, focusing on daily events, etc. that providing being at the moment. Therefore a mental management form improves that trains the mind and keeps it awake to live the life. Acceptance and Commitment Therapies (ACT) on the other hand, help the person to implement one's values (building a good family, graduation from school, etc.) in a decisive manner. All components of mindfulness are implemented in this kind of therapy. The main point to distinguish those two, is the dominance of exercises to provide focusing on the moment in mindfulness therapy. ACT, on the other hand, more emphasizes the acceptance included by mindfulness. The two therapies are complementary with one another. Both therapies aim to reduce dependence on the past and future. So the person can stay at the time he/she lives. Main strategies of both therapies are mutual including focusing at now, avoidance of judgement, observation, acceptance and cognitive defusion processes. Those processes need to be applied jointly. So the person gains the ability to stay in the moment. Herewith these skills, the mind will be ready for living in harmony with the İntihal Taraması/Plagiarism Detection: Bu makale intihal taramasından geçirildi/This paper was checked for plagiarism Geliş/
