The "lookouts" they describe sound surprisingly similar to concepts of vipassana (mindfulness) meditation. Being aware of your own responses (physical and mental) at a meta level increases your ability to deal with them.
Mindfulness is a skill to be practiced. Similar to how your heart strengthens through running and your muscle-mass increases through weight training, your ability to recognize physiological and physical responses to stress will sharpen with continued mindfulness practice.
But terminology soemtimes matters, and some people who would otherwise think "What? Meditate? I don't have time for that nonsense!" will read this and think "Oh, yeah, that makes sense, of course I need monitoring, just hadn't realized I could monitor myself too."
