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My Mindful Stress - The New Approach to Stress Management
This document discusses mindfulness as a way to manage stress. It explains that mindfulness is the ability to respond to stress rather than react to it. It notes that on average people have around 64,000 thoughts per day, with around 75% being negative. The document then outlines different mindfulness practices like stopping and dropping to be present, grounding to balance the nervous system, opening to balance hormones, and resting to heal and understand. The overall purpose is to use mindfulness to manage stress through practices of presence, grounding, opening, and resting.
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- 1. 1 My Mindful Stress Anew approach to stress.
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- 3. MY My, is tofully accept my stress as a part of life. 3
- 4. MINDFUL Mindful, is theability to respond the stress, rather then react to it. 4
- 5. STRESS Stress, is thenatural response to a real or imagined danger. 5
- 6. ANXIETY Anxiety is worryingabout the real or imagined danger. 6
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- 9. THOUGHTS 64,000/day & 3/4negative 64,000/day – The average number of thoughts we think each day. Enough to fill a large book. 3/4 negative – Brain research shows approximately 75% of our thoughts have a negative bias. 9
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- 14. STOP & DROP Mini-Practice Take a few minutes to just stop and drop. Noticing: The sounds in the room The sensations of your posture 14
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- 16. 16 We ground tore-balance our, nervous system. WHY GROUND?
- 17. 17 THE TWO SYSTEMS SYMPATHETIC– Fear based PARASYMPATHETIC – Love based NERVOUS SYSTEM
- 18. HUMAN NEEDS 18 Resting tobe wise Grounding to be safe Opening to be loved
- 19. Feeling the body •Posture of the spine • Feet, legs, hips & hands Intentional breathing • Noticing, on the in-breath • Letting go, on the out-breath Feeling the heart beating • Breathing-in, invite the chest to open • Notice, the heart beating in the chest 19 GROUNDING
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- 21. 21 We open tore-balance our, hormonal system. WHY OPEN?
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- 23. 23 THE HORMONAL SYSTEM CORTISOL– Fear based DOPAMINE – Love based HORMONAL SYSTEMS
- 24. Opening & Smiling •Still grounded • Silently repeat ‘may I smile’ Opening & Feeling • Still grounded • Silently repeat ‘I let you be’ Opening & Letting go • Still grounded • Silently repeat ‘I let it all go’ 24 OPENING
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- 26. 26 We rest toheal & understand. WHY REST?
- 27. Stopping & Dropping •Stopping the over-thinking • Dropping back into the body Opening & Letting Go • Breathing-in, opening the mind • Breathing-out, let everything go Resting in Awareness • Awareness of sensations in the body • Awareness of the sounds in the body 27 RESTING
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