1. OUTLINE  Working with emotions Schema Schema Avoidance The Antidote Conceptual framework/Schema model  Mindfulness in Therapy Beginning to practice Key Elements Of Mindfulness Techniques

2. Working with emotions

3. Schemas  protect us from experiencing underlying emotions that we find intensely disturbing  make us behave and think in ways that keep us from unsettling emotions

4. Schema Avoidance  The tendency to avoid intense emotional setbacks triggered by deep emotions hidden in the unconscious

5. The Antidote  Mindfulness Getting in touch with your feelings and thoughts It counters schema avoidance by keeping our attention focused on what we feel, even if those feelings are uncomfortable

6. The Antidote Mindfulness practice cultivates an inner knowledge Could help break through the defenses that keep us from noticing and dealing with the underlying feelings that empower the schemas in our lives Allows us to understand what happened from a mature viewpoint

7. Conceptual framework /Schema model  Two Methods Wise reflection  where we reflect on the emotional episode with mindfulness to let insight emerge Sustained Awareness  bringing the equanimity of mindfulness to bear during the episode itself, making us less reactive and more able to investigate our thoughts and feelings with greater clarity

8. Mindfulness in Therapy

9. I. Beginning to practice 1.Remembering to Be 2.Getting Motivated 3.Practicing 4.Therapist Credentials

10. I.1: Remembering to Be  The instruction to slow down and notice what is happening in the present involves being rather than doing.

11. I.2: Getting Motivated  The patient must recognize the grounds and be willing to make a priority  Therapy usually starts at a time of ‘creative hopelessness’

12. I.3: Practicing  Practicing mindfulness has its catch – we never get it right and we never get it wrong either.  This idea of ‘practicing’ suggests that we can steadily progress, but lifelong repetition is part of practice.

13. I.4: Therapist Credentials  the therapist has to have spent a lot of time in formal meditation practice  has to have learned to work with a skilled teacher  the need for them to practice mindfulness may depend on how much mindfulness we bring into therapy

14. II. Key Elements Of Mindfulness Techniques 1.Awareness 2.Present Experience 3.Acceptance

15. II.1: Awareness  Stop It is a way of preparing our mind for mindfulness awareness We may also slow down to develop mindfulness so that it could be observed in greater detail

16. II.1: Awareness  Observe As we become conscious of our attention, we can then begin to note feelings and thoughts that arise naturally within ourselves

17. II.1: Awareness  Return When we notice we have become out of focus, we return awareness to its original focal point and watch where the mind takes us from there

18. II.2: Present Experience  One of the main goals of mindfulness is to be unified with ourselves  All exercises bring awareness to the present  This practice is therefore training attention to center on the present moment

19. II.3: Acceptance  This means to consider our experience without judgments or preferences  It relies wholly on full recognition of our experience  But this is always incomplete because we never stop judging