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Mindful Practices & Mindfulness Exercises
We spend much of our time in mindless default mode: not fully present or fully engaged. Shifting to a sense of mindful, embodied presence is a very profound experience. Yet, it is relatively simple to make this shift.
The following practices and mindfulness exercises will help you explore this. They range from things you do on your own to interactive meditation, as well as ways to have more mindful conversations. See also Focusing.
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One-minute embodied mindfulness practice: Fingers & spine
I am going to describe to you a one-minute practice. Now, when I say one minute, it could be 50 seconds or five minutes.
Get a grip: Embodied mindfulness exercise
It takes just one minute to literally get in touch with your inner experience. A simple way to do it is with a little ball.
Felt sensing: A mindful inner exploration
Felt sensing is a natural ability that we all have. For many of us, it takes a special kind of attention to find it as we have been over-reliant on explicit cognition.
Three mindful steps to make successful new year’s resolutions
Year after year, you make new year’s resolutions, only to see them wither away after a few months, sometimes just a few weeks.
Standing meditation with Dan Gibson
In this 4-minute video, my friend Dan Gibson demonstrates Wu Ji, a Qi Gong standing meditation, giving step-by-step instructions.
Chi for Two: Exploring relational energy
There is such richness in our implicit patterns of communication that we cannot limit ourselves to an explicit understanding of what happens.
Mindful breathing: A mindfulness exercise for couples
Here is a simple mindfulness practice to do with your spouse or partner: breathing together.
Pausadamente (Pausefully) = Mindfully
A pause is usually an interruption. But there is another kind of pause that is totally integrated into the action.
When triggered, take a mindful pause
It is great to take a mindful pause when we feel calm. But it is even more helpful when we don’t, i.e. when we are triggered.
Mindful Listening Partnership (5-minute video)
If you want to hear yourself think, it’s very helpful to be listened to: The following 5-minute video outlines how to have a mindful listening partnership.
Mindful Listening Partnership FAQ
To free up our creativity, it helps to explore the issue in a Mindful Listening Partnership.
Focusing as an action-oriented mindful practice
This mindful process may be called Focusing, but a major part of it is to unfocus from autopilot mode.
Learn to meditate with interactive meditation
If you are just starting to meditate, please keep in mind that you will learn by practicing. You don’t need to do it right from the get-go.