Be Mindful
Mindfulness means... (Hint: Page 10)
What is paying attention on purpose, in the present moment, nonjudgmentally
What are the three states of mind?
What is reasonable, emotional, and wise mind.
What are the three WHAT skills?
What is Observe, Describe, Participate
What are the three HOW skills?
What is nonjudgmentally, one-mindfully, effectively
What is Compassion? (Hint: Page 29)
What is "a sensitivity to the suffering of self and others with a commitment to relieve and prevent it."
What are the goals of mindfulness practice? (Hint: Pages 10-11)
What is reduce suffering and increase happiness, increase control of your mind, and experience reality as it is.
Reasonable Mind is ......
What is cool, rational, and task-focused.
What are "WHAT" skills?
What is "What you do when practicing mindfulness."
What are HOW skills?
What are attributes of the First Mind State?
What is the order of the Mindfulness Model? (Hint: Page 12)
What is Event --> Thought --> Emotion --> Urge --> Behavior
(Mindfulness adds space between event and behavior)
Emotion Mind is ....
How do you Observe?
What is
- Notice your body sensations
- Pay attention
- Control your attention
- Practice wordless watching
- Observe both inside and outside yourself
What does it mean to do something "One-Mindfully?"
What is Rivet yourself to now, do one thing at a time, let go of distractions, concentrate on your mind.
What are attributes of the Second Mind State?
What is reasoning, behavior, imagery, sensory, feeling, and attention.
What are ways you have been implementing mindfulness into your daily life?
Subjective
Wise Mind is ...
What is the wisdom within each person, seeing the value of both reason and emotion, bringing left brain and right brain together, the middle path.
How do you Describe?
What is
- Put words on the experience
- Label what you observe
- Unglue your interpretations and opinions from the facts
- If you cannot observe it through your senses, you cannot describe it
What does it mean to be effective?
What is
Be mindful of your goals in the situation and do what is necessary to achieve them
Focus on what works
Play by the rules
Act as skillfully as you can
Let go of willfulness and sitting on your hands
What is the loudest sound in the world? (Hint: Page 34)
What is The Voice Inside My Head That Says I'm Not Good Enough.
What is one thing you learned about mindfulness in this group?
Subjective
How do we get from emotion mind or reasonable mind to wise mind? (Hint: Page 16)
What is WHAT and HOW skills.
How do you Participate?
What is
- Throw yourself completely into activities of the current moment
- Become one with whatever you are doing
- Act intuitively from Wise Mind
- Go with the flow
What does it mean to be nonjudgemental?
What is
- See, but don't evaluate as good or bad
- Accept each moment like a blanket spread out on the lawn
- Acknowledge the differenced between helpful/harmful and safe/dangerous, but don't judge them
- Don't judge your judging when you find yourself judging
What are steps to guide you in self-compassion? (Hint: Page 35)
What is
1. Describe what is happening nonjudgmentally
2. Validate your emotions
3. Offer encouragement and a plan