Taking Hold of Your Mind
Living life with your eyes closed
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Lessen your pain, tension, and stress, and in turn can even
What is Improve your health
When your emotion consumes you. It takes over and it's hard to think rationally about consequences.
What is Emotional Mind
Just notice the experience in the present moment
What is Observe
What is DON'T JUDGE
Being aware without judgment and without trying to change it
What is Full Awareness (opened mind)
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Help you make ___________.
What is important decisions (and balance overly emotional or overly logical decisions)
When you make decisions, and you don't take your feelings into account.
What is Reasonable Mind
Teflon Mind
What is Observe
Don't let emotions control your behavior, cut the cord between feeling and doing
What is Do What Works
Staying focused on one thing at a time
What is attentional control (focused mind)
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Give you more choices and ______________.
What is Control over your behavior.
When you choose what is the best for you
What is WISE MIND
Become one with whatever you're doing: Get in to the zone
What is Participate
Concentrate your mind; let go of distractions and refocus your attention when it drifts, again and again
What is Stay FOCUSED
What is having control of your attention, when your mind is NOT jumping all over the place and you are focused.
What is Attentional Control (focused mind)
You don't just snap your fingers and become good at mindfulness, you have to.
What is PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE!
When you need to make decisions in your life, especially important ones
What is WISE MIND
Putting words on the experience: Label what you observe with words
What is Describe
Stop doing 2 things at once (the opposite of multitasking)
Stay FOCUSED
Being aware of your present moment. Being in the hear and now.
What is Full Awareness (Opened Mind)
Mindfulness helps you to ___________. (Be in control of your mind rather than letting your mind be in control of you.
What is Focus your attention
What type of state of mind is the following:
Sad: Crying, lying in bed, using drugs/alcohol
What is Emotional Mind
What is Participate
Let go of negative feelings that can hurt you and make things work
What is DO WHAT WORKS