this week’s focus is mindfulness. it’s the foundation for a lot of other skills and helps you slow down and notice what’s happening before you react. This first time around I’m going to go through the whole module before moving on to distress tolerance, but after that I’ll only repeat it for a week between each of the other modules.
Just to introduce the concept; if sitting still or being in your head is hard, try one of these short videos:
optional check-in:
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something you tried this week
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a pattern or connection you noticed
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any resource that helped
no pressure to share. take what’s useful.
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Mindfulness meditation has been a positive and calming experience for me. Sometimes with a discernible difference in thinking, after finishing.
I prefer using headphones.
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I use these freely shareable mindfulness resources, that are under a Creative Commons licence.
Generally coming back to two meditations from the list:
If needing some grounding, a body scan can help.
Fifteen minute body scan - Vidyamala Burch, Breathworks
If stable and grounded, the Mountain meditation is a nice exploration of impermanence.
Mountain meditation - Padraig O’Morain
added to the wiki!
i’ve heard some people talk about how mindfulness can be a very stressful or triggering thing to get into, so usually i start by teaching folks distress tolerance / breathing skills. not meant as a critique, but figured i’d just add it here as additional information
very true I have a similar mention somewhere in the wiki
