1. Mindfulness: The Key to Self Management

2. What is Self Management ?
Managing our…..
Speech
Actions
Thoughts
Why is it important ?
Which is the most crucial ?
Let us investigate… keep quiet and find out the state of our own mind……
thoughts not in our control !

3. How do Thoughts arise? Cognition Perception Feelings and sensations
Interpretation of whatever is cognized
Feelings and sensations
Response to the above => thoughts, speech, actions

4. How to bring about a change in Thoughts ?
Usual thought pattern ? Its relationship to feelings?
Common approaches to bring about a change
Positive thinking
‘Religious’ approaches
The paradigm of Mindfulness : story: face the brutes!!

5. How does Mindfulness bring about a change in Thoughts?
Awareness of the habit patterns during meditation helps in identifying them during daily life and naturally brings about a change.
Non-reactive obsevation implies refusal to follow the habit patterns !

6. This is what we practice in this workshop