Practicing mindfulness
Connect openness, mindful attitude, acceptance and self-compassion in mindfulness practice.
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Guiding idea
Start here if you want to approach mindfulness through exercises rather than explanations.
Decision aid
This group shows mindfulness as a stance of practice and not only as a technique. Beginner's Mind opens a fresh look at what is familiar, the mindfulness How skills organize the way of carrying out, Radical Acceptance directs attention to a reality that cannot be negotiated away, Self-Compassion keeps the practice kind when pain or failure comes up. The difference lies in whether openness, stance, acknowledging or kind self-encounter is the next way in.
One possible starting point
Radical Acceptance
Better to start here when reality needs to be acknowledged because resistance increases the suffering.
Also in: Emotion Regulation · Mindfulness
Other options
Beginner's Mind
Better to start here when fixed expectations or hasty knowing narrow your view.
Also in: Interpersonal Effectiveness
Mindfulness How-Skills
Better to start here when mindfulness slips away through judging, distraction or being right.
Also in: Distress Tolerance · Emotion Regulation · Interpersonal Effectiveness
Self-Compassion
Better to start here when pain, mistakes or overwhelm call for a kind rather than shaming attitude toward yourself.
Also in: Emotion Regulation · Interpersonal Effectiveness