class one review
Primary Principle: pain indicates what is already well within you
Some Topics / Concepts / Principles explored in our first class
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Mindfulness makes everything as possible practice
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To Study the 'trap'
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Learning to Approach
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Avoidance = Negative symptomology
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We will explore both Acceptance & Directive Strategies to inform our well-being
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Preceding motivation determines outcomes
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Learn the brain 101 'bio-logic' to help 'appreciate' our human experience and lessen the personalization of reactivity
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Body is present – use as tool here
Sac of Sensor (BJ Miller)
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Perceiving inside and outside of consciousness all the time
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Practice is to listen – translate that data differently
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Perception of threat may change
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Regulate the threat that is here
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Study components that make up our habits/patterns of stress
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Context= care and consideration
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Attitudinal component – curious open
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Mindfulness as ‘acceptance practice’ premise what we resist = suffering
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And, we need directive-
Add Deliberately to experience to work with the biology and consciousness
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Stabilize systems focus with mindfulness = acceptance
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Steer as in the example of breath regulation = directive
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Anxiety – is all of ours
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Rejection of experience creates resistance that can increase stress/anxiety
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#1 understanding, care, consideration, appreciation- true interest in pattern here
#2 then wisdom that tells what to add or take away for different outcome
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Difference between CARE and Comfort seeking
Trained to leave our experience = comfort seek= increase stress
Metric = I am less or more present, approaching or avoiding
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How we make change
Reflect ‘I liked what happened’ to really know our experience, sense what happened, to recalibrate brain reward /memory
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Practice is to remember smallest experience when GOOD/WELL or NOT
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We have all been taught trained in certain ways
We will learn how to retrain
Know brain 101 bio-logic
Where am I applying acceptance/directive
Comes from desire to conserve, care, love system
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We are paying attention to something all the time.
Our Brain changes both its function and structure with repeated focal attention.
So, we want to get curious about what's got our attention.
What patterns or habits we have gotten into that contribute to our well-being or our worry.
Just what elements make up the very quick automatic reactions.
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#1 we need to see what is happening
#2 we need to care and be considerate
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from there we can begin to discern what we need to add or take away to support the health of our system
BRAIN 101
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history making machine
likes to save energy
likes familiar
does not like uncertainty
finds new = threat
tends toward negative bias
We protect only that which we love (we conserve) resources, each of us with our individual resources, we usually spend v invest – when we begin to love ourselves, care consider v demand / should. ..
When we love something we protect it
We love only that which we understand (appreciate)
We understand only what we are taught
late 14c., "to fix the mind upon for careful examination, meditate upon," "reflect on, consider, study," from Latin considerare "to look at closely, observe,"
"stretch, extend," and a sense for the full word of "survey on all sides" or "dwell long upon."
From 1530s as "to regard in a particular light."