At the halfway point in this course, we may now be more familiar with the foundations of mindfulness and can focus on applying it more rapidly and effectively to specific challenges and stressors in our life.
This week we will begin to pay attention to the places where we might be stuck in repeating, unhealthy patterns that we can disarm through mindful awareness. We can experiment with applying mindfulness at the critical moment when we experience a physical sensation, intense emotion, or condition, with special attention to exploring the effect of reactivity in health and illness.
Home Practice
- Sitting Meditation (choiceless awareness) every other day. Alternate with Body Scan and Lying-down Yoga.
- Fill out one entry per-day of the Difficult Communications Calendar.
- Bring awareness to moments of reacting and explore options for responding with greater mindfulness, spaciousness, and creativity, using breath as an anchor.
