DBT Book Club

Listen to the Meditation Practice for the Lovingkindness of Yourself and Others exercise from chapter 5, pg 116 of the Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Skills Workbook, help cultivate feelings of compassion toward yourself and others.

Exercise begins and end with a chime.

Practice the Judgements vs. the Present Moment Exercise from chapter 4, page 99 of the Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Skills Workbook.

This exercise begins and ends with a chime

Practice the Judgement Defusion Exercise from chapter 4, page 98 of the Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Skills Workbook. Read the description on page 98 before starting to create your own visualisation technique. 

Some examples; 

This exercise begins and ends with a chime

.Practice the Wise-Mind Meditation Exercise from chapter 4, page 88 of the Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Skills Workbook.

This exercise begins and ends with a chime

Practice the Mindful Awareness of Emotions Exercise from chapter 3, page 82 of The Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Skills Workbook.

This exercise begins and ends with a chime, and contains a minute pauses throughout for you to practice your mindfulness.

Practice the second Mindful Breathing exercise from chapter 3, page 80 of the Dialectical Behaviour Theerapy Skills Workbook

This exercise begins and ends with a chime.

You are human! And yes those annoying feelings you get when you try to do your mindfulness practise is normal Listen tot he 5 hindrances we can feel and how to work with them

Being Mindful is about remembering to be mindful! Keep track of when and how you practice mindfulness to help build your healthy mindfulness habit :)

Includes the 'Weekly Mindfulness Activities Records' table on page 112

In this episode, we learn what it means to do what's effective and how we can incorporate more mindfulness into our lives by using a regimen with skills we've practiced in previous episodes. Get ready to strengthen your wise-mind even more!