• Simply notice the experience without getting caught up in it. Notice without reacting to our experience.
• Observe with a “Teflon Mind” allowing experiences, sensations, thoughts and feelings to come into our mind but slip right back out. Keep control of the direction of our attention, but not what we see. Don’t try to push anything we observe away. Don’t attempt to hold on to an experience. Remain ALERT to every sensation, thought, feeling or action that enters your mind. |
'Observe' is just paying attention. It is noticing without adding anything to it.
Describe is putting words to what we observe; sensation, thought, or emotion. We can either express those words by speaking aloud to another person or by writing them down but describe means that we put those words into communication, not just thought. The hard part of the describe skill it to stick to the facts, without adding our own commentary. Describe the “who, what, when and where” (facts) of what observed. |
articipating means that we enter into our experience throwing ourself into it a hundred percent.
• It is being fully engaged in whatever we are doing in that moment. • Let ourself become one with our experience, being a part of whatever is happening. • Let go of the past and the future and be only in the present. • Don’t over-think or second-guess how we participate, simply do it. Avoid questioning how well we are practicing the Mindfulness Skills. If we notice your mind is wandering off, getting caught up in thoughts and emotions, or resistingour chosen direction of attention, gently engage in the act of refocusing the mind. |
Complete Homework Questions: 'WHAT' Skills
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