3 Minute Breathing Space Mindfulness Practice

Learn this short but powerful mindfulness based technique to help:
- manage difficult thoughts and uncomfortable feelings
- switch off autopilot
- get you out of your head and into your body
- ground yourself in turbulent times
- focus your attention
- reduce repetitive thoughts, rumination and worrying.
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[@YamkoonFoo]

Any reasons why don't we anchor straight to the up and down of our belly but instead we ask ourselves what is my thoughts ? What is my feeling on my body ? What emotions ? Thank you 😊

[@simone.russell]

Fantastic question! Noticing thoughts and feelings is a key part of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and other mindfulness based practices. If you go straight to the focusing on the breath it can be a distraction technique from uncomfortable thoughts and feelings. Bringing awareness to thoughts and feelings without judgement can increase our self-awareness of patterns/triggers and reduce our emotional reactivity by mindfully observing without reacting. Practising regularly can lessen the hold some thoughts and feelings can have over us so we can focus on what is most important. There is a video on Dropping Anchor (another ACT technique) you might also like 🙂 kzbin.info/www/bejne/jqGzdYOVm5KHiZo