Mindfulness
The act of consciously focusing on the mind in the present moment without judgement and without attachment to the moment.
What is Mindfulness
What does a Chain Analysis help us understand?
Behavior
What are the three states of mind?
Reasonable, emotion, and wise mind
What are the 3 what skills?
Observe, Describe, And Participate
What are the three how skills?
Don't judge
Stay Focused
Do What works
3 goals of mindfulness
What is reducing suffering, increasing control of your mind, and experience reality as it is.
What are the 5 steps of a chain analysis
Describe the problem behavior. Describe the prompting event. Describe the events that made you vulnerable. Describe the chain of events. Describe the consequences.
What is reasonable mind?
Cool, rational, task-focused
You are ruled by facts, reason, logic and pragmatics.
What are 3 examples of observe skills?
wordless watching, observe both inside and outside of yourself, don't push away your thoughts and feelings, watch your thoughts and feelings come and go.
3 examples of Don't Judge Skills
Notice but don't evaluate as good or bad.
Acknowledge the harmful and helpful.
Don't judge yourself for judging.
What are 3 ways to practice mindfulness
What is meditation, prayer, and mindfulness movement
How do we change behavior
describe skillful behaviors. Develop prevention plans. Repair important consequences to the problem behavior.
What is emotion Mind?
Hot, Mood-Dependent, and Emotion-Focused.
You are ruled by your moods, feelings, and urges, to do or say things.
What are 2 examples of describe skills?
put words on the experience, describe only what you observe without interpretations
3 examples of stay focused skills
One Mindfully, focus on one thing
stop doing two things at once
concentrate your mind
stay focused so that past, future, and current distractions don't get in your way.
What are the 3 core mindfulness skills
States of mind, what skills, and how skills
What are some prompting events that could cause problem behaviors
thoughts/impulses/urges/feelings.
What is wise mind?
The wisdom within each person
Seeing the value of both reason and emotion.
Bringing left brain and right brain together.
The middle path
What are 3 examples of participate skills?
throw yourself into the present moment fully, become one with whatever you are doing, fully experience the moment
3 examples of do what works.
Be effective, focus on what works to achieve your goal.
do not let emotions control your behavior
play by the rules
act as skillfully as you can to achieve your goals.
Let go of negative feelings (vengeance, anger)
Perform a mindfulness exercise
and Convince the others to participate
What are some vulnerability factors
Physical illness, unbalanced eating or sleeping, use of drugs or alcohol, intense emotions and stressful environments.
How do we practice wise mind
Stone on the coy pond, walking down the spiral stairs, breathing "wise" in and "Mind" out. Asking wise mind a question.
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