Mindfulness Skills Workbook.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Section I: Introduction -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Why This Book is Needed -- What's Different About This book -- How to Use This Book -- Section II: Tools for Integrating Mindfulness in Practice -- Chapter 2: Tools for Explaining Mindfulness -- Defining Mindfulness -- Tool 2-1: Define Mindfulness -- Tool 2-2: Illustrate Mindfulness Concept with Snow Globe or Water with Baking Soda -- Tool 2-3: Compare Mindfulness to the Rest in Music -- Core Skills -- Tool 2-4: Set Intention -- Tool 2-5: Cultivate a Witnessing Awareness -- Tool 2-6: Regulate Attention -- Tool 2-7: Strengthen Self-Regulation-Use a Word or Color as Body-Mind Signal -- Tool 2-8: Loving Kindness for Self and Others -- Tool 2-9: Journal About Your Understanding of What Mindfulness is -- The Neurobiology of Why Mindfulness Works -- Tool 2-10: What is Neuroplasticity and Why Do We Care? -- Tools for Explaining Implicit Memory -- Tool 2-11: How to Describe Implicit Memory -- Tool 2-12: Journal About a Favorite Memory (Explicit Memory) -- Tools for Explaining Brain Structure Relevant to Mindfulness -- Tool 2-13: The Prefrontal Cortex (PFC) -- Tool 2-14: The Amygdala-Security Guard -- Tool 2-15: The Insula -- Tool 2-16: Journal About a Time You Felt Afraid -- Tools for Easy Ways to Envision Brain Anatomy -- Tool 2-17: Hand Model of the Brain -- Tool 2-18: Neurons-Hand-to-Elbow Model -- Tool 2-19: Draw a Picture of Your Brain in Your Journal -- Tools for Explaining the Research -- Tool 2-20: Explain Mindfulness Research -- Tool 2-21: Connect Mindfulness Research with Benefits for Client's Condition -- Tool 2-22: Journal About Why Mindfulness Helps People with Your Condition -- Chapter 3: Tools to Increase Client Use of Mindfulness at Home -- Tool 3-1: How to Find a Comfortable Position.

Tool 3-2: How to Find a Time That Works and Schedule It -- Tool 3-3: How to Find a Place for Core Practice -- Tool 3-4: How to Incorporate Mindfulness into Daily Activities -- Tool 3-5: Journaling About Your Plans to Use Mindfulness -- Chapter 4: Tools for Teaching Mindfulness Basics -- Explain the Basic Process of Mindfulness -- Tool 4-1: Notice, Accept, Dismiss, Return -- Doing the Exercises with Your Client -- Tool 4-2: Find an Opening to Introduce Concept in Session -- Tool 4-3: Assign Mindfulness Skill Practice -- Process What Happens with Your Client -- Tool 4-4: What Happened During and After Practice? -- Tool 4-5: What to Do if Client Didn't Practice? -- How to Identify and Overcome Obstacles and Resistance -- Tool 4-6: How to Recognize Common Obstacles -- Tool 4-7: Address Objections with Client -- a: I Didn't Have Time -- b: I Forgot -- c: I Can't Stay Focused, So Why Bother? -- d: I Don't Know How to Do It Right -- e: This Doesn't Work for Me -- f: I Fell Asleep -- g: It's Too Religious for Me -- h: I Feel Silly Doing This -- i: It's Boring -- j: I Don't See How This Could Possibly Help Me -- Tool 4-8: Journal About Your Objections and How to Overcome Them -- Tools for Getting Clients to Buy Into Using Mindfulness -- Tool 4-9: What Do They Know About It? -- Tool 4-10: Find Out How Client is Already Being Mindful -- Tool 4-11: How to Start Small and Where the Client Is -- Tool 4-12: Choose the Best Mindfulness Skill(s) for the Client -- Tools for Relating Effectiveness of Specific Skills to Their Condition -- Tool 4-13: Relate Benefits to the Client's Condition -- Tool 4-14: Journal About Benefits You Expect from Mindfulness -- Section III: Tools for Teaching Specific Mindfulness Skills -- Chapter 5: Mindfulness of Breath -- Tool 5-1: Basic Relaxation Breathing -- Tool 5-2: How to Belly Breathe.

Tool 5-3: Three Ways to Tell if You are Belly Breathing -- Tool 5-4: Core Practice -- Tool 5-5: Awareness of Breath Meditation -- Tool 5-6: Counting Sets of Four Breaths -- Tool 5-7: Journal About Breathing -- Chapter 6: Present Moment Awareness -- Mindfulness of Surroundings -- Tool 6-1: Mindfulness of Surroundings-Indoors -- Tool 6-2: Mindfulness Outside in Nature -- Awareness of Object -- Tool 6-3: Beginner's Mind with Any Object -- Tool 6-4: Water Glass -- Open Focus -- Tool 6-5: Can You Imagine the Space Between? -- Journal -- Tool 6-7: Journal About How Present Moment Awareness Changes My Day -- Chapter 7: Mindfulness of Thoughts -- Tool 7-1: Flowing Stream -- Tool 7-2: Mindfulness of Thoughts -- Tool 7-3: Get in Between Thoughts -- Tool 7-4: Changing the Channel -- Tool 7-5: Automatic Negative Thoughts -- Tool 7-6: Journal About Being Mindful of Thoughts -- Chapter 8: Mindfulness of Emotions -- Tool 8-1: Awareness of Emotions -- Tool 8-2: Meditation: Mindfulness of Emotions -- Tool 8-3: Core Heart Feelings -- Tool 8-4: Journal About Mindfulness of Emotions -- Chapter 9: Mindfulness of Physical Body -- Tool 9-1: Body Scan -- Tool 9-2: Relaxation Response -- Tool 9-3: Progressive Muscle Relaxation -- Tool 9-4: Remembered Wellness -- Tool 9-5: Journal About Increasing Awareness of Physical Body -- Chapter 10: Mindfulness of Relationships -- Tool 10-1: Relationships -- Tool 10-2: Mindful Listening for Feeling "Felt" -- Tool 10-3: Journal About the Last Time I Felt "Felt" -- Chapter 11: Mindfulness of Tasks -- Tool 11-1: Mindfulness During Daily Activity -- Tool 11-2: Mindfulness of Tasks -- Tool 11-3: Journal About Increasing Mindfulness of Tasks -- Chapter 12: Mindfulness of Words -- Tool 12-1: One Word at a Time -- Tool 12-2: Telling Your Story -- Chapter 13: Mindfulness of Intention -- Tool 13-1: Explore Your True Intentions.

Tool 13-2: Meditation -- Chapter 14: Mindfulness of Intuition -- Tool 14-1: Tuning-In -- Tool 14-2: Mindfulness of Intuition Meditation -- Tool 14-3: Journal about Mindfulness of Intuition -- Chapter 15: Mindfulness of Motion -- Tool 15-1: Motion -- Tool 15-2: Stillness -- Tool 15-3: Slow Walking Meditation -- Tool 15-4: Walking Meditation -- Chapter 16: Using Sound -- Tool 16-1: "AHH" Versus "OM" -- Tool 16-2: Music -- Section IV: Tools for Using Mindfulness Skills for Specific Disorders -- Chapter 17: Mood Disorders -- Depression -- Tool 17-1: Freedom from Depression in the Moment -- Tool 17-2: Find a Thought That Feels Better -- Anxiety -- Tool 17-3: Lower and Eliminate Anxiety -- Tool 17-4: Change the Channel -- Panic Attacks -- Tool 17-5: Abort and Prevent Panic Attacks -- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) -- Tool 17-6: Decrease PTSD Symptoms -- Tool 17-7: Havening -- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder -- Tool 17-8: Increase Awareness of Obsessional Thinking -- Tool 17-9: Decrease Obsessional Thinking and Compulsions -- Bipolar Disorder -- Tool 17-10: Awareness of Mood State -- Tool 17-11: Stabilize Mood -- Chapter 18: ADHD -- Tool 18-1: Increase Concentration -- Tool 18-2: Reduce Hyperactivity -- Chapter 19: Medical Illness, Pain, and Sleep Disorders -- Chronic Pain -- Tool 19-1: Pain Management -- Chronic Medical Illness -- Tool 19-2: Remembered Wellness -- Sleep Disorders -- Tool 19-3: Meditation for Sleep -- Chapter 20: Stress, Anger -- Stress -- Tool 20-1: Reduce Stress Response -- Anger -- Tool 20-2: Calm That Anger -- Chapter 21: Chronic Mental Illness -- Schizophrenia -- Tool 21-1: Awareness of Surroundings and Thoughts for Grounding -- Tool 21-2: Choose Rational Thoughts -- Section V: Tools for Tracking Progress -- Chapter 22: Tracking Progress -- Tool 22-1: Define Treatment Goals -- Tool 22-2: Symptom Tracking -- Appendix -- References.

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Like no other resource, Mindfulness Skills Workbook combines the latest research and best practices -- all in a simple guide to successfully teach mindfulness to your clients.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.