Date post: | 12-May-2015 |
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For you to walk away with great confidence that you have some practical, powerful new tools to help you:
a) Enjoy being at work more,b) Improve overall wellness, andc) Make every aspect of your life
more satisfying and meaningful
For you to leave this workshop feeling like you had a mini-vacation
Discuss some ideas about what mindfulness is and how it can be applied to accomplish our goals
Practical applications
Several periods of Q/A
No need to write what’s on the slides
Let’s save questions for Q/A spots keep on track with time
Mini breaks every 30 minutes/as needed
Full breaks every 60 minutes/as needed
The Power of Purpose
Serve NOW
Monastery on steroids
Being grateful for difficult people
Almost ordained
Mindfulness is the balanced, non-judgmental awareness of what is coming in through the senses in the present moment, including our sense of sense of self; our thoughts and emotions – “What’s happening NOW?”
Being the Still Point of Awareness in the middle of the chaos that is the mind, our emotions, and the world around us
Increased Serenity in the face of difficulties More accepting attitude toward life and its
challenges More fluid adaptation to change and
development of more effective coping strategies Lasting decreases in a variety of stress-related
physical symptoms, including chronic pain Significant decreases in anxiety and depression Improved concentration and creativity Improved immune system functioning
Decreased symptoms secondary to cancer Increased social skills Increased ability to orient attention Increased working memory and planning
and organization Increased self esteem Increased sense of calmness, relaxation,
and self acceptance. Increased quality of sleep Increased Compassion (UW Study)
Ultimate psychology – removes the root of all neuroses (more later…..)
Sit
Walk
Surveys / Beth
What are most common stressors at work? a) Overworked/understaffedb) Difficult parents of patientsc) Co-Workersd) A few listed sensory overload
What are most common stressors at home?a) Moneyb) Task/Choresc) Caregiving
Mostly or completely out of our control
Focus on our reaction to events rather than the event itself – The Space Between
Learning to welcome difficult situations/people – training to become the ultimate human being
Freedom from state = Improved interactions with patients = Alignment with our purpose
Effects of stress – Effects of mindfulness
Mental Recovery (running analogy)
Sitting as ultimate recovery – Mini Vacation
Improved Sleep
Integrating Mindfulness
Transforming work/chores, downtime to becomes peace time/training time, enjoying little miracles
The Wisdom that Sets us Free – We are not our ego
With the source of negative emotions gone, our natural state of peace, satisfaction, and compassion is revealed
Fight or Flight
Conscious Breathing
Mental Noting/Stopping (Research by Matthew Lieberman at UCLA shows that when people put words to their emotions the amygdala cools down almost instantly and the prefrontal cortex goes to work.)
Conscious breathing/mental noting Investigation of emotion Untying the knot (as soon as there is time)
1) Mad Man2) Seeing all causes and conditions
Frequent breath brakes
Mindfulness in activity, mental noting
Daily sitting
Difficult co-workers may need love more than patients - they’re asking for love
Loving them helps patients
Mirroring and Reflecting
Hearing before solving
Very powerful when someone is emotional –Compassionate communication gets our needs met
Especially powerful when we’re being criticized / attacked
How mindfulness develops listening