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Mindfulness - Introduction to Mindfulness
AN INTRODUCTION TO MINDFULNESS
What
is mindfulness?
What are the origins of mindfulness?
What are the benefits of mindfulness?
What are the skills of mindfulness?
How can I practise mindfulness meditation?
What are some examples of meditation and
training exercises?
What is mindfulness based cognitive
therapy? (MBCT)
What does a 6 - 10 week mindfulness program
include?
How to practise mindfulness throughout the
day? - in the workplace?
What are the differences between awareness,
consciousness, attention and mindfulness?
... These are some questions you may have
been asking yourself about mindfulness.
You will find the answers to these
questions and many more in INTRODUCTION
TO MINDFULNESS, compiled by Dean Amory.
Download your e-book of "Introduction
to Mindfulness" here, or order a paperback copy and make it your loyal
companion through the good and the bad moments that eventually form your life.
In a nutshell, mindfulness is about being
completely in touch with the present moment and being open to experiences as
they come.
Mindfulness involves taking your attention
away from the past and future and away from your imagination - and instead
becoming aware of what is going on right now. You can do this as you go about
your daily life. Notice with your senses: what you are seeing and hearing, that
you are breathing, standing, walking or sitting or lying down, the feel of the
air against your skin as you move along.
Your mind will keep drifting out of the present so you need to keep
bringing it back. It is bringing your mind back to the present that makes up
the practice of mindfulness. Never criticize your mind for drifting away: just
bring it back kindly and gently.
Have you ever suddenly become aware of a
background noise that had been going on for some time unnoticed? Or have you
ever woken up just moments before your alarm clock went off, as if an inner
force had lifted you from slumber? That was mindfulness.
Mindfulness is a mental faculty, like
intuition or musical ability. It reminds you of what you didn't know you had
forgotten, and wakes you when you didn't realize you were sleeping (or
daydreaming). Mindfulness points out
what ordinarily escapes conscious attention, what is hidden in plain sight --
or what we've overlooked or forgotten because it doesn't fit our
interpretations, or pertain to our goals, or because it makes us feel
uncomfortable.
When you are mindful, your mind is quiet
but alert, empty but present, sharply focused on the immediacy of the
situation, knowing that anything can
happen.
Without mindfulness, we function as if on
autopilot, only partially aware of who we really are or what we're doing.
What are the origins of mindfulness?
Mindfulness has been used for thousands of
years in the Buddhist tradition to improve peoples experience of living.
What are the benefits of mindfulness?
Being mindful lowers anxiety and stress,
interrupts harmful brooding and will help you to avoid endlessly repeating
distressing or unhelpful thoughts, images and mental scenes.
Mindfulness meditation has been
demonstrated to provide relief from a wide range of afflictions including pain,
depression and loneliness. It also contributes to enhanced focus, creativity
and performance on a wide variety of tasks.
Among its many welcome side effects are
deep serenity and a patient, tolerant understanding of others, but it is worthwhile
in itself for reasons that must be experienced to be appreciated. In a word, it
awakens us.
What are some examples of meditation and training
exercises?
Exercises like those below have been used
for centuries to help people practice mindfulness as they go about their daily
life. The first two need only take a minute or so but will help you if you
repeat them at intervals during the day.
Awareness
From time to time, notice your breathing.
Notice your posture.
Notice the points of contact between your
body and the chair, floor, ground.
Notice your clothes touching your body.
Notice sounds in the room; sounds outside
the room; the furthest away sound you can hear.
Every time you drift into thinking, just
return to noticing these sensations.
Basic
Mindfulness Meditation
Mindfulness should be the simplest of
tasks, an elemental challenge like no other.
In the July 2012 issue of Shambhala Sun,
James Ishmael Ford boils the practice down to its basic fundamentals. His
instruction:
Sit down, shut up and pay attention.
Or, to expand it slightly, Sit down, shut
up and observe your breath and body. When your attention begins to drift,
gently put it back on target.
This is the practice. Repeated
re-engagement, over and over and over. Without judgment. Over time, this
becomes a foundational, primal skill that we can bring to every other task and
challenge in our lives. It is powerful.
So dont make it complicated.
Just do it. Again. And again.
Mindfulness
Cues
This involves using habitual behaviours to
remind you to practice mindfulness. Choose one or two and then decide that when
performing them you will maintain awareness of what you are doing, rather than
daydreaming or getting caught up in fears or anxieties: Using the telephone ~
Going up or down stairs or steps ~ Using a computer mouse or keyboard ~ Tidying
~ Washing up ~ Showering.
Awareness
of Breathing
As you go through your day, notice your
breathing from time to time. All you need to do is notice just a few of those
20,000 breaths you take every day. Are you breathing with your chest or your
tummy (abdominal breathing is usually more relaxing)? As you breathe out, can
you feel movement in your tummy? Can you feel the air entering and leaving your
nostrils?
Mindful
Awakening
When you wake up in the morning, spend a
few moments savoring your dreams. You don't have to remember what happened in
the dreams. Just taste their overall flavor. Even when you do remember
fragments of the dream story or imagery, pay especial attention to the subtle
moods that they evoke, which are like aromas or fragrances.
The delicate threads of your dreams will be
lost easily in the morning if you enter your waking life too quickly. Take your
time, lie still for a moment, and taste the herbal flavors that your dreams
have left in your mind.
Then, when you do begin to think about your
waking life, notice its flavor, as well, as if it were also a dream.
Take your time, lie still for a moment, and
taste the herbal flavors that your dreams have left in your mind.
Sometime during the day, when you remember
to do it, pay attention to the sensations on the inside of your body. You might
start by letting your attention rest on the sensations of breathing in your
chest and throat.
Notice what happens to your mind as you
begin to focus on those inside-the-body sensations. Do you notice a shift in
the overall tone of your mind?
Then let your attention move throughout
your body, like the gentle hands of a masseur, checking for spots where you
feel tension or sensations of burning, tingling, or glowing. Don't forget your
hands, fingers, and feet.
If you're feeling a strong emotion, such as
fear or excitement, where do you feel the sensations of that emotion in your
body? What textures, colors, or flavors do they have? See what happens when you
examine the sensations in detail, taking quick glances at them. Mindfulness is
what lets you see in greater detail.
Mindful
Walking
While you're walking around outside, listen
for spaces between sounds. Even the steadiest sounds are perforated by tiny
gaps. Listen to the sounds as if they were music. Also, try tasting their
aromas, the subtle impressions that they make on your mind, just as you do with
dreams.
Try listening to the sounds as if you were
listening from your belly or gut, rather than from your head. Let your belly
become the center of your awareness. Let it feel just as sensitive and exposed
as your face.
Also, instead of looking at things as whole
objects that have names and purposes, let your attention be drawn to their
textures and colors, until what you're looking at doesn't have a name or
description at all. Notice how the feeling of your mind changes as you do this.
Mindful
Conversations
While you're having a conversation with
someone, spend a moment listening to the spaces between the sounds of his or
her words. Try listening from your belly. Feel its changing sensations as the
person is speaking.
Mindful
Relaxation
Before you fall asleep at night, lie still
and look for feelings of tension that come from all your effort to get things
done during the day. Look for knots of tension in your head, neck, face, and in
your belly or in your limbs.
The next day, as often as you remember to
do it, look for those feelings of effort again as you're going about your day.
Do you feel any tension around or behind your eyes? Pay attention to how the
"making an effort" feelings are associated with thoughts or desires.
In the same way that you were noticing
moments of silence between sounds, also notice that between the feelings of
effort there are gaps where those feelings diminish or disappear. Sometimes the
gaps are so small that they're hard to notice at first, but let mindfulness
point them out.
Mindful
Thinking
Thoughts are like mini-dreams. When you
suddenly realize that you've been having a thought (mindfulness is what reminds
you), savor its flavors, savor the residue that the thought has left in your
mind, just as you've been practicing with your dreams every morning. Does it
produce any sensations in your body, perhaps behind your eyes?
Notice gaps between the thoughts, where
there's a bit of silence. What do you experience in that silence?
Now listen to the sound of your thoughts --
not to what the thoughts are about, but to their tone of voice, as if you were
listening to another person talking. What would that person's facial
expressions or body language look like? What would that person want to say?
With quick glances, explore the subtle
sensations, the dream-like flavors and aromas of the personality that seems to
be "you", the captain of the ship, the pilot that seems to be in
charge of your body.
Observe how it seems to break up into
little bits, like pixels on a screen, as you glance at it up close and in
detail.
Mindful
Self Consciousness
From time to time reflect on the
"I" that sees inside your mind. What is experiencing and how does it
know that it is experiencing? What kind of light illuminates dreams and
thoughts so that the "I" can see them?
When seen with mindful glances, the most
ordinary aspects of experience seem mysterious and remarkable -- and the more
ordinary, the more remarkable.
How strange that the universe exists rather
than that nothing exists at all, and that it exists just as it does and not
some other way. And then, how strange that this "I" exists and is
aware of the existence of that universe.
Such bare reflections come as part of the
process of mindful awakening. Once the process of awakening begins, it moves
along at its own pace, under its own steam, as awareness awakens to itself.
What are the skills of mindfulness?
Mindfulness is made up of a number of
skills, all of which require practice. These skills are briefly described
below:
Awareness
One skill of mindfulness is learning how to
focus your attention on one thing at a time. This includes being aware of and
able to recognize all the things that are going on around you (for example,
sights and sounds), as well as all the things that are going on inside you (for
example, thoughts and feelings).
Nonjudgmental/Non-evaluative
Observation
This skill is focused on looking at your
experiences in a nonjudgmental way. That is, simply looking at things in an
objective way as opposed to labeling them as either "good" or
"bad." An important part of this skill is self-compassion.
Being
in the Present Moment
Part of mindfulness is being in touch with
the present moment as opposed to being caught up in thoughts about the past
(also called rumination) or the future (or worry). An aspect of this skill is
being an active participant in experiences instead of just "going through
the motions" or "being stuck on auto-pilot."
Beginner's
Mind
This skill of mindfulness focuses on being
open to new possibilities. It also refers to observing or looking at things as
they truly are, as opposed to what we think they are or evaluate them to be.
For example, going into a situation with a preconceived notion of how things
will turn out can color your experience. This can prevent you from getting in
touch with the true experience.
Practicing Mindfulness
Mindfulness takes practice. Some people may
put aside time to formally practice mindfulness, such as devoting time to
practice mindful awareness of their breath or thoughts. However, the good thing
about mindfulness is that you can also practice it at any point throughout your
day. For example, you can bring mindfulness awareness to a number of activities
that we often do without thinking, such as eating, washing dishes, cooking,
taking a shower or bath, walking, driving in the car, or listening to music.
As you go about your day, try to find as
many opportunities as you can to practice mindfulness. The more you practice,
the easier it will become to bring mindful awareness to your life experiences.
Numerous studies also indicate that it is the most effective form of job training. Yet, On-the-job training also represents a significant investment considering that roughly 30 percent of a new worker's time is spent in on-the-job training during the first 90 days of employment, that productivity of experienced workers assigned to train new workers may decrease during the training period, and that new workers may make expensive mistakes.
Both companies and workers therefore profit largely from the presence of simple, but complete trainee and trainer guides that allow for executing OJT in a structured way.
How to perform on-the-job training, has the information, techniques and tips that will allow you to implement a professional OJT training program. The book also includes all the tools, documents and checklists necessary for setting up a qualitative and efficient skills training program for OJT coaches.
Mental imagery, also called visualization or mental rehearsal, is an experience that resembles a perceptual experience, but which occurs in the absence of the appropriate stimuli for the relevant perception.
Mental images have the power to change your life. The mental images that you often visualize affect your life, whether you are aware of this or not.
If you visualize negative situations, difficulties and problem, and continue doing so, your moods will gradually become negative, you will alienate people, you will close your eyes to opportunities, and your self-esteem will go down. How can you achieve success if you are so negative?
On the other hand, successful people attract success, because they constantly imagine and expect success
What Can Mental Imagery Do To Enhance Your Life?
Mental images are like a movie or still pictures that you see in your mind. If you watch them again and again your subconscious mind will ultimately accept them as you reality.
Through Mental Imagery you can affect your thinking, behaviour and world. If you visualize what you really and truly desire and how you will achieve these goals; if you replace self limiting thoughts by inspiring and motivating thoughts; negative habits by positive habits; prepare yourself mentally for challenging and difficult situations and picture yourself as the happy, healthy and successful person you want to be, you will improve your skills and become more happy and successful in your life!
How To Use Mental Imagery
Practice Daily.
Use short visualizations during your daily activities and longer visualizations while relaxing and prior to meeting specific challenges.
Use visualization boards as a computer wallpaper, sleeping room decoration or at places where they will regularly remind you of what is important to you.
Use Different Techniques of Mental Imagery for Different Purposes
Dreams do come true, but first you have to dream them, Right?
If you aim at nothing you'll hit it every time.
Goals are dreams with deadlines: If you dont set priorities, if your short term goals dont serve a long term vision, if you dont select strategies, and dont take action: how will you reach your goals?
Prepare Success!
Achieving your goals, being successful and being who you want to be and living the life you want, is best visualized by mentally rehearsing the positive outcomes of future actions and events and by picturing the destined future stage.
Envision yourself achieving your goals vividly to remind yourself of your objective and what you need to do to reach it. Many athletes, actors, and singers "see" and "feel" themselves performing a routine, program, or play perfectly before they actually do it.
2. Reduce Stress
Reduce stress by visualizing yourself in peaceful natural scenes, by descending an imaginary staircase towards your sacred safe place, by becoming a leaf that travels the waters of a lovely creek, by pulling the plug and draining all your stress away or by imagining how you let loose on an imaginary punching bag
3. Get Rid Of Stumble Blocks
Confront and eliminate irrational believes, fears and internal conflicts and turn your stumble blocks into stepping stones
Take responsibility for your own emotions and actions:
Recognize that neither another person, nor an adverse circumstance, can ever disturb you. Only you can.
Replace must by strongly prefer
4. Eliminate Negative Behaviour
Use Covert Sensitization: Imagine engaging in some behaviour you wish to change, say, an addiction. Have this quickly followed by imagining a highly unpleasant event. Thus, the addictive behaviour becomes paired with a highly aversive event and therefore is less likely to occur in the future. Next: imagine how your life will be without the negative behaviour.
5. Perfectionalize your Skills
Systematically visualize the desired correct coping behaviour and its benefits for you. This technique has seen much use in sports. Seeing yourself perform skills at a high level, the way you want to: confident, accurate, focused, is a good way to build confidence and a feeling of readiness prior to a challenging task (public presentation, important meeting, ) or competition.
6. Improve Problem Solving and Decision Making
Choose an image to focus on to help you through a troublesome period. Visualize yourself as a superwoman who can easily scale the highest skyscrapers or a marathon runner who outruns all of his competitors. Put your problems inside a carton and imagine it getting smaller and smaller until it can easily fit into your pocket. You'll discover that your problem is easier to carry inside your pocket than the heavy weight of it sitting on your shoulders. Or, you can visualize your problems magically disappearing before your eyes. There are no limitations in your visualizing. It can be magical.
When you are struggling with making a decision between two different options, try visualizing yourself involved in the two scenarios and imagine the results of your decision. This visualization exercise should help you in making the right decision.
7. Clear your Mind from Emotional Clutter
Too many thoughts and mental pictures can convolute the mind
Choose images that erase, filter, or organize your thoughts. Much like de-cluttering a closet, you can use visualization to reduce mental clutter.
There are three causes of mental clutter: Avoidance, Indecision, and Procrastination. Dont avoid them. Confront them Now!
8. Find Balance
Use visualizations to help you ground and find balance. Because our energies are always in flux it is important to "check in" with our bodies routinely to adjust and centre ourselves.
If you find yourself stubbing your toes or bumping into things, you are not in balance.
If you are experiencing mental confusion or are all over the place emotionally, a centring visualization can help return you to calm and better focus.
9. Let Go and Break Free
Are you having difficulty walking away from a toxic relationship? Or do you tend to dwell on the past instead of moving forward in your life? Choose images in your visualization sessions which will allow you to break free from problematic people and move past personal regrets. We cannot change the past, but we can create our futures. Begin a new way of living by visualizing it first!
10. Familiarize
Mental imagery can be used effectively to familiarize yourself with the surroundings before an event, such as an interview, an important meeting, a sales conversation or negotiation, a public presentation, a competition site, a racetrack, a stage or a difficult play or routine prior to a competition ...
11. Do a Run-Through
Mental Imagery can be used as a cognitive technique to plan strategies, rehearse procedures or game plans, affirm what you want to occur, or as a coping skill strategy to stay calm and composed under pressure. Athletes and performers often do a complete mental run through of the key elements of their routines. This helps them focus, eliminate some pre-performance jitters and be more comfortable. It also serves as a warm-up or mini rehearsal.
12. Build Confidence and Readiness
Seeing yourself perform skills at a high level, the way you want to: confident, accurate, focused, is a good way to build confidence and a feeling of readiness prior to a challenging task (public presentation, important meeting, ) or competition.
13. Stimulate Healing and Recovery
Repetitive use of positive visualization allows access to the mind-body connection. This lets the mind and body work together to foster the healing process of the body on a physical level.
Visualization puts your intention of what you want to work. The more specific the intention, the more specific the results. Remember whatever you believe is what your body will do
14. Help You To Emulate Your Role Models
An important key foundation in Neuro-linguistic Programming is modelling. To model, you emulate those who have already achieved success. You observe, analyze and then replicate the factors that contributed to the outstanding performance.
While there is no 100% guarantee that you can reap the same results, modelling helps you shorten your learning curve. You learn to avoid common mistakes and apply the essential steps and strategies that have helped your role model succeed. The idea is that it is much easier to follow a previously proven path to success.
15. Give You Access To Your Totem Power
Animal totems contain a natural power that can allow you to see and love and know more of the earth, life and especially yourself.
Animal spirit guide totems hold power and knowledge that we can use to be one with nature - all that is and will be and use the power of nature to achieve our goals. Many cultures of the past understood and used the power of animal totems.
Totems can be particularly useful in today's society where it is easy to forget the essence and true spirit of life and love in the midst of high technology.
Use your personal animal totem to awaken the natural balance with nature that you already possess. You can be healthier and happier physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually in understanding and honouring your animal totems.
16. Borrow The Mind Of A Genius Or The Powers Of Your Hero
The truth is that you can be anything that you want to bebut you do have to work at it.
If you want to find out more about how you can use the magical power of mental imagery to enhance your life, visit my bookshop at :
Mental imagery, also called visualization or mental rehearsal, is an experience that resembles a perceptual experience, but which occurs in the absence of the appropriate stimuli for the relevant perception.
Mental images have the power to change your life. The mental images that you often visualize affect your life, whether you are aware of this or not.
If you visualize negative situations, difficulties and problem, and continue doing so, your moods will gradually become negative, you will alienate people, you will close your eyes to opportunities, and your self-esteem will go down. How can you achieve success if you are so negative?
On the other hand, successful people attract success, because they constantly imagine and expect success
What Can Mental Imagery Do To Enhance Your Life?
Mental images are like a movie or still pictures that you see in your mind. If you watch them again and again your subconscious mind will ultimately accept them as you reality.
Through Mental Imagery you can affect your thinking, behaviour and world. If you visualize what you really and truly desire and how you will achieve these goals; if you replace self limiting thoughts by inspiring and motivating thoughts; negative habits by positive habits; prepare yourself mentally for challenging and difficult situations and picture yourself as the happy, healthy and successful person you want to be, you will improve your skills and become more happy and successful in your life!
How To Use Mental Imagery
Practice Daily.
Use short visualizations during your daily activities and longer visualizations while relaxing and prior to meeting specific challenges.
Use visualization boards as a computer wallpaper, sleeping room decoration or at places where they will regularly remind you of what is important to you.
Use Different Techniques of Mental Imagery for Different Purposes
Dreams do come true, but first you have to dream them, Right?
If you aim at nothing you'll hit it every time.
Goals are dreams with deadlines: If you dont set priorities, if your short term goals dont serve a long term vision, if you dont select strategies, and dont take action: how will you reach your goals?
Prepare Success!
Achieving your goals, being successful and being who you want to be and living the life you want, is best visualized by mentally rehearsing the positive outcomes of future actions and events and by picturing the destined future stage.
Envision yourself achieving your goals vividly to remind yourself of your objective and what you need to do to reach it. Many athletes, actors, and singers "see" and "feel" themselves performing a routine, program, or play perfectly before they actually do it.
2. Reduce Stress
Reduce stress by visualizing yourself in peaceful natural scenes, by descending an imaginary staircase towards your sacred safe place, by becoming a leaf that travels the waters of a lovely creek, by pulling the plug and draining all your stress away or by imagining how you let loose on an imaginary punching bag
3. Get Rid Of Stumble Blocks
Confront and eliminate irrational believes, fears and internal conflicts and turn your stumble blocks into stepping stones
Take responsibility for your own emotions and actions:
Recognize that neither another person, nor an adverse circumstance, can ever disturb you. Only you can.
Replace must by strongly prefer
4. Eliminate Negative Behaviour
Use Covert Sensitization: Imagine engaging in some behaviour you wish to change, say, an addiction. Have this quickly followed by imagining a highly unpleasant event. Thus, the addictive behaviour becomes paired with a highly aversive event and therefore is less likely to occur in the future. Next: imagine how your life will be without the negative behaviour.
5. Perfectionalize your Skills
Systematically visualize the desired correct coping behaviour and its benefits for you. This technique has seen much use in sports. Seeing yourself perform skills at a high level, the way you want to: confident, accurate, focused, is a good way to build confidence and a feeling of readiness prior to a challenging task (public presentation, important meeting, ) or competition.
6. Improve Problem Solving and Decision Making
Choose an image to focus on to help you through a troublesome period. Visualize yourself as a superwoman who can easily scale the highest skyscrapers or a marathon runner who outruns all of his competitors. Put your problems inside a carton and imagine it getting smaller and smaller until it can easily fit into your pocket. You'll discover that your problem is easier to carry inside your pocket than the heavy weight of it sitting on your shoulders. Or, you can visualize your problems magically disappearing before your eyes. There are no limitations in your visualizing. It can be magical.
When you are struggling with making a decision between two different options, try visualizing yourself involved in the two scenarios and imagine the results of your decision. This visualization exercise should help you in making the right decision.
7. Clear your Mind from Emotional Clutter
Too many thoughts and mental pictures can convolute the mind
Choose images that erase, filter, or organize your thoughts. Much like de-cluttering a closet, you can use visualization to reduce mental clutter.
There are three causes of mental clutter: Avoidance, Indecision, and Procrastination. Dont avoid them. Confront them Now!
8. Find Balance
Use visualizations to help you ground and find balance. Because our energies are always in flux it is important to "check in" with our bodies routinely to adjust and centre ourselves.
If you find yourself stubbing your toes or bumping into things, you are not in balance.
If you are experiencing mental confusion or are all over the place emotionally, a centring visualization can help return you to calm and better focus.
9. Let Go and Break Free
Are you having difficulty walking away from a toxic relationship? Or do you tend to dwell on the past instead of moving forward in your life? Choose images in your visualization sessions which will allow you to break free from problematic people and move past personal regrets. We cannot change the past, but we can create our futures. Begin a new way of living by visualizing it first!
10. Familiarize
Mental imagery can be used effectively to familiarize yourself with the surroundings before an event, such as an interview, an important meeting, a sales conversation or negotiation, a public presentation, a competition site, a racetrack, a stage or a difficult play or routine prior to a competition ...
11. Do a Run-Through
Mental Imagery can be used as a cognitive technique to plan strategies, rehearse procedures or game plans, affirm what you want to occur, or as a coping skill strategy to stay calm and composed under pressure. Athletes and performers often do a complete mental run through of the key elements of their routines. This helps them focus, eliminate some pre-performance jitters and be more comfortable. It also serves as a warm-up or mini rehearsal.
12. Build Confidence and Readiness
Seeing yourself perform skills at a high level, the way you want to: confident, accurate, focused, is a good way to build confidence and a feeling of readiness prior to a challenging task (public presentation, important meeting, ) or competition.
13. Stimulate Healing and Recovery
Repetitive use of positive visualization allows access to the mind-body connection. This lets the mind and body work together to foster the healing process of the body on a physical level.
Visualization puts your intention of what you want to work. The more specific the intention, the more specific the results. Remember whatever you believe is what your body will do
14. Help You To Emulate Your Role Models
An important key foundation in Neuro-linguistic Programming is modelling. To model, you emulate those who have already achieved success. You observe, analyze and then replicate the factors that contributed to the outstanding performance.
While there is no 100% guarantee that you can reap the same results, modelling helps you shorten your learning curve. You learn to avoid common mistakes and apply the essential steps and strategies that have helped your role model succeed. The idea is that it is much easier to follow a previously proven path to success.
15. Give You Access To Your Totem Power
Animal totems contain a natural power that can allow you to see and love and know more of the earth, life and especially yourself.
Animal spirit guide totems hold power and knowledge that we can use to be one with nature - all that is and will be and use the power of nature to achieve our goals. Many cultures of the past understood and used the power of animal totems.
Totems can be particularly useful in today's society where it is easy to forget the essence and true spirit of life and love in the midst of high technology.
Use your personal animal totem to awaken the natural balance with nature that you already possess. You can be healthier and happier physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually in understanding and honouring your animal totems.
16. Borrow The Mind Of A Genius Or The Powers Of Your Hero
The truth is that you can be anything that you want to bebut you do have to work at it.
If you want to find out more about how you can use the magical power of mental imagery to enhance your life, visit my bookshop at :
An Introduction to Family Therapy - composed by Dean Amory
This is the presentation of the new, extended and improved version of An Introduction to Family Therapy, your reference guide containing detailed information about all important facets of family therapy: schools and methods, strategies used, structure and content of family therapy sessions, stages, basic techniques, influential people, history of family therapy,
The cover illustration is from Zirta from Mexico: www.zirta.net
The manual provides extended background information about history and development of marital and family therapy and describes the lives and careers of the principal pioneers and leaders in the field.
Ample attention is given to the most important contemporary models and schools of schools:
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Brief Strategic Family Therapy
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Brief Strategic Family Therapy for Adolescent Drug Abuse
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Solution Focused Brief Therapy
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Brief Psycho Therapy
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Psycho-analytiuc Family Therapy
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Strategic Family Therapy
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Bowens Strategic Family Therapy
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Salvador Minuchins Structural Family Therapy
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Virginia Satirs Humanistic Family Therapy
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Behavioural & Conjoint Family Therapy
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Milan Systemic Family Therapy or Long Brief Therapy
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Response Based Family Therapy
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Contextual Family Therapy
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Narrative Family Therapy
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Problem Centered Systems Family Therapy
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Experiential Family Therapy
Following basic Techniques used in Family Therapy are described in detail:
ACCOMMODATION
AFFECTIVE CONFRONTATION
ASKING PERMISSION
BEGINNERS MIND
BOUNDARY FORMATION
ADDING COGNITIVE CONSTRUCTIONS
1. ADVICE AND INFORMATION
2. PRAGMATIC FICTIONS
3. PARADOX
COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUES
1. MATCHING THE CLIENTS LANGUAGE
2. MATCHING SENSORY MODALITIES
3. CHANNELING THE CLIENTS LANGUAGE
4. USE OF VERB FORMS
5. GIVE CLOSE EXAMINATION TO THEIR LANGUAGE AND YOURS.
COMMUNICATION SKILL-BUILDING TECHNIQUES
1. REFLECTING
2. REPEATING
3. FAIR FIGHTING TECHNIQUES
4. TAKING TURNS EXPRESSING FEELINGS
5. NONJUDGMENTAL BRAINSTORMING
6. EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION
CONCLUSION
CONFIRMATION OF A FAMILY MEMBER:
DEFRAMING
DETRIANGULATION
DIAGNOSING
DIFFERENTIATION OF SELF
DISEQUILIBRIUM TECHNIQUES
1. REFRAMING:
3. BOUNDARY MAKING
4. PUNCTUATION:
4. UNBALANCING:
LESSONS IN EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION
EMOTIONAL CUT-OFF
THE EMPTY CHAIR
ENACTMENT
FAMILY CHOREOGRAPHY
FAMILY CONTRACT
FAMILY COUNCIL MEETINGS
FAMILY FLOOR PLAN
FAMILY LIFE CYCLE
FAMILY PHOTOS
FAMILY SCULPTING
FAMILY SYSTEM STRATEGIES
THE GENOGRAM
GOAL SETTING
ICEBREAKER COMPLIMENT OR POSITIVE STATEMENT
IDENTIFICATION
INFORMATION-GATHERING TECHNIQUES
1. THE GENOGRAM
2. FAMILY PHOTOS
3. FAMILY FLOORPLAN
INTENSITY
INTERVENTION TECHNIQUES
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RELATIONSHIP EXPERIMENTS.
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COACHING.
·
I-POSITIONS.
·
DISPLACEMENT STORIES.
·
TAKING SIDE & MEDIATING.
·
THE EMPTY CHAIR
·
FAMILY COUNCIL MEETINGS
·
STRATEGIC ALLIANCES
·
PRESCRIBING INDECISION
·
PUTTING THE CLIENT IN CONTROL OF THE SYMPTOM
·
SPECIAL DAYS, MINI-VACATIONS, SPECIAL OUTINGS
·
PROBLEM SOLVING
·
FAMILY CONTRACTS
·
REFRAMING
·
PUNCTUATION
·
UNBALANCING
·
RESTRUCTURING
·
ENACTMENT
·
BOUNDARY FORMATION
·
WORKING WITH SPONTANEOUS INTERACTION
·
INTENSITY
·
SHAPING COMPETENCE
·
ADDING COGNITIVE CONSTRUCTIONS
INVOLUNTARY CLIENT SHEMA
JOINING
1. TRACKING:
2. MIMESIS:
3. CONFIRMATION OF A FAMILY MEMBER:
4. ACCOMODATION:
5. MAINTENANCE
NORMALIZATION
OBSERVATION
POSITIVE CONNOTATION
PARADOXICAL INJUNCTIONS
PRAGMATIC FICTIONS
PRESCRIBING INDECISION
PROBLEM TRACKING
PROBLEM SOLVING TECHNIQUES
PROBLEM DISSOLUTION
PUNCTUATION
PUTTING CLIENT IN CONTROL OF THE SYMPTOM
QUESTIONS
1. THE MIRACLE QUESTION:
2. FAST-FORWARDING QUESTIONS
3. THE EXCEPTION QUESTION:
4. STRATEGIC BASIC QUESTIONS:
5. PROVOCATIVE QUESTIONS:
6. SCALING QUESTIONS AND PERCENTAGE QUESTIONS
7. EXCEPTION SEEKING QUESTIONS
8. COPING QUESTIONS
9. OPEN QUESTIONS
10. PROCESS QUESTIONS.
11. LINEAR QUESTIONS
12. CIRCULAR QUESTIONS
15. PROBLEM TRACKING QUESTIONS
16. CONVERSATIONAL QUESTIONS
17. FRAMING QUESTIONS
18. DEFRAMING QUESTIONS
REFRAMING
REFRAMING PROBLEM DEFINITIONS
RESTRUCTURING
SHAPING COMPETENCE
USE OF SILENCE
SPECIAL DAYS, MINI-VACATIONS, SPECIAL OUTINGS
WORKING WITH SPONTANEOUS INTERACTION
STRATEGIC ALLIANCES
TRACKING
UNBALANCING
INTRODUCING UNCERTAINTY
UTILIZATION STRATEGY
The structure, strategies and different stages of the Family Therapy Process are discussed.
The Systemic Family Therapy Manual that is part of this introduction, provides a detailed survey of therapy outlines, goals and checklists for initial , middle and end sessions of a systemic Family Therapy.
Appendixes include samples of appointment letter, video consent, referrer letter, post assessment letter, closing letter, session notes record form and diagnostic interview outline.
Unlike people who are trying to influence, persuade or convince others, manipulators work with unfair means to get what they want. They do not respect the personal rights of their victims. They violate the victim's integrity, work with hidden agendas and deliberately use dishonest tricks like faulty reasoning, coercion, blackmail and lying in an attempt to control the victim's actions. Manipulation is about suiting the manipulator's advantage or purpose only, often at the expense of the victim.
Yet, it is often difficult to know when you are being manipulated: manipulators do all they can to convince you that you are the one who is to benefit most from their actions and that they are acting in good faith.
It's often really difficult to recognize manipulation when it happens. After all, if we are aware that it is happening, would we allow ourselves to be manipulated?
That is where this book comes in handy: it explains the tricks manipulators use and teaches you how to best defend and protect yourself.
Influence includes being able to persuade, motivate and negotiate in order to get what you want.
Imagine just for a moment how important it is to each of us to improve our ability to influence others: to make friends and inspire them,to win other people for our standpoint or to make business contacts and reach positive agreements with them.
What if you were even only slightly more successful in this art?Just imagine the possible benefits for your personal life, your love life, your career, your social life, your personal happiness, your financial position!
You know how important it is to educate yourself, to develop a vision, to plan, and to work towards your goals with flexibility and perseverance.Yet you also know that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor does food always come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned.
One of the main reasons why excellent people do not advance in their careers or fail in life, is because they don't realize the enormous importance of networking and communication.
Knowledge and personal capacities are not enough to be successful.You need influencing skills to make it in this life!
Since this great book about the art of influencing and persuading others, is composed of articles found in the public domain, which are freely accessible for anybody on the internet, it's only fair that you should also be able to download this book totally free of costs.
So, why not download the book and start today to take your influencing and persuading skills to the next level?
The knowledge contained in this book will allow you to be happier in your life and more successfully
* make friends and inspire them
* win other people for your standpoint
* make business contacts
* negotiate positive agreements
* advance in your career
* enhance your personal life, your love life, your social life
* enhance your personal happiness
* enhance your financial position
By getting better at influencing and persuading people, you will in short, be able to create for yourself and your loved ones the kind of life you have been dreaming of
Communiceren is hoe je in contact komt met anderen. De manier waarop je dat doet is meteen van enorm belang voor het ontwikkelen van bevredigende en succesvolle relaties. In dit werk focust Eddy Adriaens op een aantal zeer belangrijke communicatietechnieken: contacten leggen en onderhouden, vrienden maken en houden, een gesprek starten en in gang houden, jezelf en anderen motiveren, spreken in het openbaar ... het draait allemaal rond communicatie.
Goede communicatie op haar beurt vereist sterke interpersoonlijke vaardigheden. Hoe word je meer assertief? Hoe geef en ontvang je feedback? Hoe vraag je iets en hoe reageer je op een verzoek? Hoe breng je slecht nieuws? Hoe ga je om met verandering?
In "De Wetten van Goede Communicatie" vind je, naast de wetten voor goede communicatie en conversatie, gedetailleerde informatie en nuttige tips om je communicatie met anderen te verbeteren en zowel privé als beroepsmatig beter te scoren.
Bovendien bevat het werk ook een boekdeel over Geweldloze Communicatie.
Prijs: 9,94 (Geldig op 15/10/2012)
Wordt binnen 3 tot 5 werkdagen verzonden
Deze bundel omvat, naast de wetten voor goede communicatie en conversatie, ook de boekdelen "Leven is Communiceren" en "Geweldloze Communicatie"
It takes love for people and willingness to study their psyche, culture, habits and trends to become a good mind reader.
Yet Mind Reading is a skill, and like with all skills, training and exercising are required in order to become good at it.
To the individuals that do make the effort however, the rewards are numerous: Mind Reading enhances our observational talents and our insight in what makes people tick, it improves our communicative capacities, makes us used to being in the spotlight and requires that we learn to handle its seducing powers.
A good mind reader therefore is much more than just that: he's also a good communicator, a good coach and teamleader, a good mediator and sales person. Above all that, my wish to you is that your newly acquired powers will also make you a better person, a better partner and lover!
Ik heb 14 jaar in diverse kmo's gewerkt als adjunct en hoofd van de verkoopadministratie. Later werkte ik ongeveer even lang als commercieel afgevaardigde en adjunct kantoordirecteur in de banksector. Tijdens die periode heb ik mij vaak verwonderd over de manier waarop budgetten voor marketing en publiciteit toegekend en besteed worden.
Het huidig werkboekje wil voor dit domein een beknopte en praktische leidraad bieden aan iedereen die als zelfstandige of in een kmo-omgeving mee verantwoordelijkheid draagt voor de commerciële uitbouw van het bedrijf.
Sinds Edward De Bono zullen wij het allemaal geweten hebben: we moeten "out of the box" denken, "lateraal" denken, "transversaal" denken, creatief zijn, ... "l'imagination au pouvoir" kalkten ze in Parijs op de muren (omwille van "Leuven Vlaams" kon dat in 1968 hier niet natuurlijk)
Enfin: hoe word je creatief? Zoals met veel dingen: beetje bij beetje en wie het niet écht in zich heeft, nooit helemaal Want creatief zijn is niet zomaar een optelsom van truukjes en technieken, het is een ingesteldheid, een karaktereigenschap, een "idiosyncratie" die je met de moedermelk mee ingelepeld krijgt, thuis en in de papschool spelenderwijze inoefent en die groeit met iedere succesvolle toepassing.
Nieuwsgierig zijn kan daarbij helpen, open zijn als een kind helpt, "praktisch dromen", visualizeren, prutsen, experimenteren, proberen ... ook allemaal ... en ook een klein beetje de technieken van Edward De Bono en die van Urbanus van Anus.
Omdat de tweede zijn technieken nog niet gepubliceerd heeft, kunnen alle curieuzeneuzenmosterdpotten alvast beginnen met die van de eerste eens onder de loupe te nemen.
Op zoek naar een bondige, praktische cursus geheugentraining?
Eddy Adriaens stelde een zeer handige cursus geheugentraining samen, waarin U op korte tijd de belangrijkste technieken kan aanleren om uw geheugenprestaties in het dagelijkse leven opmerkelijk te verbeteren.
De cursus behandelt vooral het onthouden van:
1. Leerstof 2. nieuwe dingen 3. taken 4. voorvallen uit het verleden 5. namen
Communiceren is hoe je in contact komt met anderen.
De manier waarop je dat doet is meteen van enorm belang voor het ontwikkelen van bevredigende en succesvolle relaties.
In dit werk focust Eddy Adriaens op een aantal zeer belangrijke communicatietechnieken: contacten leggen en onderhouden, vrienden maken en houden, een gesprek starten en in gang houden, jezelf en anderen motiveren, spreken in het openbaar ... het draait allemaal rond communicatie.
Goede communicatie op haar beurt vereist sterke interpersoonlijke vaardigheden. Hoe word je meer assertief? Hoe geef en ontvang je feedback? Hoe vraag je iets en hoe reageer je op een verzoek? Hoe breng je slecht nieuws? Hoe ga je om met verandering?
In "Leven is communiceren" vind je gedetailleerde informatie en nuttige tips om je communicatie met anderen te verbeteren en zowel privé als beroepsmatig beter te scoren.
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Die eerste schooldag ontmoet Eddy een nieuwe klasgenote: Marleen. Al vlug worden de twee onafscheidelijk. Maar even plots maakt Marleen een paar maanden later een einde aan hun relatie. Wanneer blijkt dat de twee jonge mensen mekaar niet kunnen loslaten, begint het verhaal pas echt. Gedurende twee jaar volgen wij Eddy op zijn tocht naar de volwassenheid. Tijdens deze periode worstelt hij met de vragen waarmee ook elk van ons zich geconfronteerd zagen: over liefhebben, loslaten, kiezen, gelukkig worden ... Het wordt een tocht vol verrassingen, bezaaid met momenten van intens geluk maar ook met ogenblikken van diep verdriet. Een boek dat wij in één keer willen uitlezen en ons uiteindelijk achterlaat met een glimlach en het besef dat elk van ons ergens wel een beetje Eddy of Marleen is.
About the Author
Eddy werd geboren in 1953 in Aalst. Hij groeide er samen met zes broers en zussen op in de wijk Terjoden (Erembodegem). Na zijn middelbare studies werkte hij eerst in lokale KMO's als correspondent en adjunct-(verkoops)directeur. Daarna werkte hij als helpdesk operator en relatiebeheerder bij Bacob, thans Dexia. Hij is gehuwd en vader van één dochter.
This workbook will teach you ten simple techniques that will allow you to create an atmosphere of appreciation and happy belonging, which will bring your date in a trance like state, in which all becomes possible.
The present workbook lists ten indispensable and infallible stepstones for successfully applying the art of influencing people. In fact, by using only these ten ingredients, your success rate in such fields as selling, convincing and seducing will soar dramatically.
Dr Irene Matiatos says : "Some of the nicest people I know are codependent. They always smile, never refuse to do a favor. They are happy and bubbly all the time. They understand others and have the ability to make people feel good. People like them!" ... and then she and a series of other specialists in the field explain you why this attitude is in fact very destructive to relationships, what its origins are and how you can overcome it. If you value your relationship and you have the feeling that the giving - taking part is not always in balance, than this is the one work that you should read !
THE ART OF SUCCESSFUL FLIRTING AND DATING is a public domain compilation containing the elementary techniques for flirting, dating and making conversation. It is the essential guide to flirting and dating for boys and girls, revealing the secret to successful seduction and lasting passion. Learn now how to get the boy or girl you want ... and keep them.
In deze Powercursus leer je de technieken aan die gebruikt worden om ons wereldbeeld, onze opvattingen, visies en voorkeuren te wijzigen. Je verwerft inzicht in geraffineerde manieren om mensen te beïnvloeden, te verleiden, te misleiden, te overhalen en te hypnotiseren.
Familiegeschiedenis van de familie Adriaens - De Pauw uit Terjoden, aangevuld met stambomen van de 16e eeuw tot nu, van de families Adriaens, De Pauw en De Schryver afkomstig uit Denderhoutem, Oost Vlaanderen, België en met interessante teksten over de geschiedenis van onze streek.
Dit verhaal situeert zich in Aalst en begint op de eerste schooldag in 1970. Die dag wordt Eddy verliefd op een nieuwe klasgenote, Marleen. Een paar maanden later al krijgt hij de bons. Wanneer blijkt dat de beide jonge mensen elkaar niet echt kunnen loslaten, begint een moeilijke dans van aanhalen en afstand nemen. Wij volgen Eddy gedurende deze periode en de twee volgende jaren en maken mee hoe hij worstelt om voor zichzelf antwoorden te vinden op de vragen die wij ons in die levensfaze allemaal stellen: over verliefd worden, liefde, omgaan met mensen, respect, de redenen waarom we zijn zoals wij zijn, enz ...
So you walked up to her and said "Hi!" ... and now : what ? This is a book about starting up conversations and keeping them going. Contrary to what you may have been thinking, finding the perfect opening line need not be a problem at all: You can say almost anything you want as long as you do so in a friendly way. If a girl is interested in you, she won't care much about your first line. It's what comes next, that matters!
Complete course on writing Fairy Tales, compilated from information freely available on the world wide web, completed with "some salt and pepper from my own storehouse".
Dit verhaal situeert zich in Aalst en begint op de eerste schooldag in 1970. Die dag wordt Eddy verliefd op een nieuwe klasgenote, Marleen. Een paar maanden later al krijgt hij de bons. Wanneer blijkt dat de beide jonge mensen elkaar niet echt kunnen loslaten, begint een moeilijke dans van aanhalen en afstand nemen. Wij volgen Eddy gedurende deze periode en de twee volgende jaren en maken mee hoe hij worstelt om voor zichzelf antwoorden te vinden op de vragen die wij ons in die levensfaze allemaal stellen: over verliefd worden, liefde, omgaan met mensen, respect, de redenen waarom we zijn zoals wij zijn, enz ...
MARLEEN - Dagboek van mijn Apenjaren in de Handelsschool in Aalst
MARLEEN - Dagboek Van Mijn Apenjaren In de Handelsschool In Aalst
Eddy Adriaens
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Dit liefdesverhaal situeert zich in Aalst en begint op de eerste schooldag in 1970. Die dag wordt Eddy verliefd op een nieuwe klasgenote, Marleen. Een paar maanden later al krijgt hij de bons.
Of toch niet? Want als blijkt dat de beide jonge mensen elkaar niet echt kunnen loslaten, begint een moeilijke dans van aanhalen en afstand nemen.
Wij volgen Eddy gedurende deze periode en de twee volgende jaren en maken mee hoe hij worstelt om voor zichzelf antwoorden te vinden op de vragen die wij ons in die levensfaze allemaal stellen: over verliefd worden en liefde, omgaan met mensen, respect, de redenen waarom we zijn zoals wij zijn, enz ...
Het wordt een boeiende en bij momenten aangrijpende reis naar de volwassenheid.
Biografie van de auteur
Edgard Adriaens werd geboren op 21.09.1953 in Aalst. Hij groeide er samen met zijn ouders en zes broers en zussen op in de wijk Terjoden. Na zijn middelbare studies werkte hij 14 jaar in lokale KMO's. Sinds 1986 werkt hij bij Bacob, nu Dexia Bank. Hij is getrouwd met Scheerlinck Arlette. Samen met hun dochter, Tamara, wonen zij in Nederhasselt - Ninove.
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