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This is an excellent list of strategies, really good breakdown that maybe be useful in facilitating behavioral change. What I find surprising is the lack of mi
by jakubp 8y ago
This is an excellent list of strategies, really good breakdown that maybe be useful in facilitating behavioral change.
What I find surprising is the lack of mindfulness on the list, i.e. employing mindful awareness to an activity as a way to deal with it.
- carlospwk 8y agoWhat would be a concrete example of utilizing mindfulness?
- trevyn 8y agoIntentionally focusing conscious attention on the immediate actions you’re taking, preferably the immediate physical actions. Breathing, typing, moving papers, whatever it is. The premise being that a lot of stress is produced by the mental process of prediction and thinking into the future or the past, and by redirecting attention the the areas where you are taking immediate action, you produce emotional reactions to the sensation of progress, instead of emotionally predicting the potential outcomes of the hypothetical future. Note that this applies even if you are resting or relaxing — “all I have to do now is breathe”.
- jakubp 8y agoYes! You could also focus on emotions and thoughts i e Just notice wgat you feel or think without trying to change it.
- zeroxfe 8y agoI think that was "Adopting a process focus" on the list. (Which is something that works well for me too.)
- jakubp 8y agoHm. I interpreted it as being aware of where i am in activity, how I do parts of it, kind of trying to do it well and recognizing where i am in the process. Mindfulness to me would be just To continually bring awareness to whatever I feel, sense, think, without connection to a process. If there are averse conditions, running away from what we feel is the opposite of mindfulness and any directed way of distracting/framing the situation would be going away from mindful appreciation of the very aversive situation.