COGNITIVE BEHAVIOURAL THERAPY WHAT
Feelings - Thoughts - Actions
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It is a big group. We get hand-outs and we put them in our duo-tangs. There is homework. I feel like I'm in school again. Learning How to Control Your Crazies 101.
Also started the Mindfulness Meditation group yesterday. I think I've done that before, at homewood 8 years ago, perhaps. Eat a raisin slowly, notice the texture and taste, focus on the raisin and nothing else.
I have no problem with meditation... Can usually get myself into empty-head meditative state... and then I fall asleep. Focusing on being mindful on here-and-now without going into that zoned-out state is something I am still learning. I guess it has to do with my daydreaming issues. I am so often outside my own head, imagining the life of someone far more interesting. When I come back to reality, I start to cry. So, learning to take time to focus 100% of my cognitive attention on what is happening NOW, not the shit that sucked two weeks ago, or the things in the future I'm worried about, but what I am doing Right This Instant.
It's interesting. Not sure how much it helps. Have to keep doing it now and then, and see if I notice a difference.
And now to watch The Mists of Avalon. Dunno why I didn't see this when it first came out... loved the book.
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It is a big group. We get hand-outs and we put them in our duo-tangs. There is homework. I feel like I'm in school again. Learning How to Control Your Crazies 101.
Also started the Mindfulness Meditation group yesterday. I think I've done that before, at homewood 8 years ago, perhaps. Eat a raisin slowly, notice the texture and taste, focus on the raisin and nothing else.
I have no problem with meditation... Can usually get myself into empty-head meditative state... and then I fall asleep. Focusing on being mindful on here-and-now without going into that zoned-out state is something I am still learning. I guess it has to do with my daydreaming issues. I am so often outside my own head, imagining the life of someone far more interesting. When I come back to reality, I start to cry. So, learning to take time to focus 100% of my cognitive attention on what is happening NOW, not the shit that sucked two weeks ago, or the things in the future I'm worried about, but what I am doing Right This Instant.
It's interesting. Not sure how much it helps. Have to keep doing it now and then, and see if I notice a difference.
And now to watch The Mists of Avalon. Dunno why I didn't see this when it first came out... loved the book.