Today's Focus

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Today's Focus

• Mindfulness, Resilience, and
• Stress Hardiness
• Saki F. Santorelli, EdD, MA
• Executive Director,
• Center for Mindfulness
• Associate Professor
• of Medicine

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A Simple (but not so easy) Way of Relating to
Your Life Moment-By-Moment...

• Stop
• Take a Breath
• Observe Open
• Proceed

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S means....STOP/PAUSE

• Practice
• Dropping into your body
• Becoming aware of sensations in the body
• Listening...to what the sensations are telling
  you...

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• MINDFULNESS

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Mindfulness Operationally Defined

• Paying attention, on purpose, in the present
  moment, non-judgmentally.
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  - Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD

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Components of Mindfulness

• Intention/motivation - on purpose
• Attention paying attention
• Attitudes non-judgmentally
• Nowness in the present moment

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• Ø
• Making your mind blank
• A religion, set of beliefs or dogma
• About deep breathing, chanting or mantras
• Touchy-feely or New Age
• A quick fix solution

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• Mindfulness ? Relaxation

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ATTENTION

• Mindfulness attention training
• Mindfulness mental training

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TMEANS...TAKE A BREATH

• Practice
• Feeling the breath in the body
• Noticing that you can direct the mind to the
  breath sensations
• Recognizing that awareness of breathing is
  stabilizing

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• AWAKE

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Current State of Affairs...

• Continual Partial Attention
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  - Linda Stone
• 
  Microsoft researcher

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Attention

• Continual partial attention
• It means that while you are answering your
  e-mail and talking to your kid, your cell phone
  rings and you have a conversation. You are now
  involved in a continuous flow of interactions in
  which you can only partially concentrate on each.
• 
  - Tom Friedman
• 
  NY Times 1/30/2001

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Attention, Attention, Attention

• Sustained Attention
• If being fulfilled is about committing
  yourself to someone else, or some experience,
  that requires a level of sustained attention.
• -
  Linda Stone
• 
  

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Sustained Attention Requires...

• AWARENESS

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O MEANS...OBSERVING/OPENING

• Practice
• Seeing what is here (acceptance)
• Observe/Recognize
• Thoughts
• Emotions
• Body sensations
• Opening to...
• Turning toward/Facing

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Responding vs. Reacting

• Stimulus Reaction
• Stimulus Responding

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AWARENESS...

• Stimulus Responding
• AWARENESS

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STABILITY

• Constancy
• Steadiness
• The ability to maintain or reestablish
  equilibrium
• Ballast

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The Sense of Coherence

• A sense of stability in a situation in which
  you feel completely out of control.
• - Aaron
  Antonovsky

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BUOYANCY

• Pliable
• Flexible
• Elastic
• The capacity to remain afloat
• Buoyancy

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RESILIENCE

• RESILIENCE
• BALLAST BUOYANCY

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PMEANS...PROCEED/ACT....

• Practice
• Asking the question
• What is called for now?
• Acting
• Learning to live more easefully with the
  consequences
• Learning to recover your balance more quickly

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STRESS HARDINESS

• 3 FACTORS
• CONTROL
• COMMITMENT
• CHALLENGE
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  - Suzanna Kobassa, PhD
• 
  CUNY, NYC

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Stress Hardiness Factors

• Control Helplessness
• Commitment Alienation/Isolation
• Challenge
  Threat
• _________________________________
• Tranformational
  Regressive
• Coping
  Coping

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The Resilient Mind...

• I've missed more than 9000 shots in my
  career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six
  times I've been trusted to take the game winning
  shot and missed. I've failed over and over and
  over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
• 
  Michael Jordan

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