Mindfulness CBT originates from Eastern Buddhist meditation.Research on mindfulness has been picking up in recent times and it has been found to be helpful dealing with many issues such as: personality disorder, social anxiety, depression, stress, general anxiety, and OCD.
Mindfulness itself is the process of experiencing/observing thoughts, feelings, and the environment without attaching to any of those and looking at it without judgment. CBT comes into play because while practicing mindfulness you are not engaging with those thoughts/feelings/environmental cues; CBT is the act of challenging those negative/irrational automatic thoughts that you are observing through mindfulness.
Traditionally the tendency in CBT is to identify negative thoughts and reframe them in a more functional/balanced way. Many of our automatic thought processes stem from experiences that happened a long time ago, and can be a challenge to approach in a problem solving mentality.
Mixing CBT and Mindfulness looks at how the person interpreted the event versus the event itself.
Instead of engaging with negative thoughts/images/emotions or trying to distract oneself from those you choose a third option: allow them to be there, accept them but do not neglect them.
This is the sitting with those negative thoughts, feelings, etc and observing them without being attached. Accepting that they are present but do not profess truth.
Sources
http://www.centreforcbtcounselling.co.uk/mindfulness_cbt.php
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