Mindfulness

Question 1

Mindfulness

Answer 1

compassionate awareness of our thoughts, emotions, and experiences to increase our capacity for joyful living

Question 2

Mindfulness vs mindlessness

Answer 2

Awareness vs autopilot

Question 3

How to live mindful?

Answer 3

• Savoring the moment
• the space between stimulus and response can be filled by mindfulness
• Master of our attention
• These skills can be cultivated

Question 4

Why do people struggle to regulate emotions?

Answer 4

Repression or excessive reactivity

Question 5

How to start practicing mindfulness?

Answer 5

1. Direct involvement of one of your five senses
2. Find an anchor
3. Returning to the anchor

Question 6

How to deal with difficult emotions

Answer 6

• Acknowledge (name the emotions)
• Allow (drop the struggle, normalize the human emotions)
• Accommodate (make room for the emotion)

Question 7

Cognitive fusion

Answer 7

• We are fused with our thoughts and opinions
• Results in rigid behaviors
• “I am…”

Question 8

Cognitive Defusion

Answer 8

• Creating space between yourself and your thoughts
• “I’m having the thought that…”

Question 9

What is suffering?

Answer 9

Pain x resistance

Question 10

What is ACT therapy?

Answer 10

• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
• Take effective action guided by our deepest values
• Mindful engagement in what we’re doing
• avoiding or controlling emotions create suffering
• Transforming relationship between difficult thoughts and feelings and how we view them

Question 11

Know what type of therapy the ABC model stems from

Answer 11

Comes from ACT therapy
Helps us form optimism

Question 12

Know what role buddhism played in developing meditation.

Answer 12

1980s Monks were studied and then meditation became studied and respected

Question 13

Know the basic human qualities cultivated through meditation.

Answer 13

Concentration, awareness, self-compassion, self-esteem