ms spock
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Hello Everyone,
I have taken part in several challenges held on this forum and have found them quite helpful.
If anyone is interested I am thinking of organising a challenge.
This would be done by using The Mindful Way Through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness (Book & CD) Paperback – June 2, 2007 by Mark Williams, John Teasdale, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Zindel Segal).. You can buy it from the usual places.
The "The Mindful Way Through Depression" audiobook is also on youtube (search for the mindful way through depression freeing yourself from chronic unhappiness). It is 5:14:55 long. To get an idea what the challenge involves it might be good to listen to the 5 hours and 14 minutes to see if it is for you before you buy the book/CD.
It has 8 practice tracks at the end. As we did the 8 week challenge we will do all the 8 practice tracks.
To participate in this challenge you would need to be able to listen to 15 minutes per day and then come on and comment on what you thought about the 15 minutes. You would need to practice which ever practice tracks that we are doing that week.
Anyone highly symptomatic with PTSD, depression or suicidal ideation wouldn't be in the best place to participate in the challenge. So best to wait until you are stable.
I put this up now, so people can think about it. It would start on the 15th of June 2015 for eight weeks, if people are interested.
If people want to start listening to it now and see what they are thinking and post here that would be good. I will open up a PM closer to the commencement date.
I have been also looking at this free online course as well. http://palousemindfulness.com/selfguidedMBSR.html
Let me know what you think.
Cheers,
ms spock
Edited to Add
I would hope that we are supportive, respectful, caring whilst being candid and honest with each other. The Happiness Challenge and the Self Esteem Challenge both saw some people growing and changing so much. I was most impressed with people's commitment and dedication. I hope that we can develop those connections and camaraderie.
Being able to breath and to ground would be two handy skills to have under your belt before the challenge begins. At least a fair bit of practice on breathing and grounding would be good to carry you over. I have great problems with my breathing, grounding and being present in this now, so no one has to be perfect but having a working practice that is taking care of themselves is important to my mind.
I would suggest that people have familiarity with https://www.myptsd.com/threads/10-p...s-negative-thinking-styles.51948/#post-841137
Reading the David Burns book could be so helpful to stop being stuck in rumination. (A challenge using this book would be a possible next challenge for us all.) There is time to read that book before we begin the challenge.
I would suggest that people have mental health professional or mindfulness mentor or peer support to check in with. This needs to be in place or arranged before the commencement of our challenge.
Going on youtube and search for the authors talks (Jon Kabat-Zinn, John Teasdale, Zindel Segal, Mark Williams) and listen to them. This will give people a good insight to the path that we are going on. It will be for some people and not some others.
The main thing is to have a curious, compassionate, inquisitive mind/attitude towards your thinking and to realise that minds wander and if your whole practice is watching your mind wander that is okay. If your mind wanders and you can't be curious and compassionate then having compassion for your lack of compassion for yourself would be a step to take that could be helpful. That is my biggest understanding at the moment. Everytime I listen to the audiobook I learn something new. It will be exciting to read other people's understanding.
I am not a professional so I want to make suggestions that enable people to choose to make themselves safe. It is each individual member's responsibility to do what they need to do before the challenge begins to make themselves safe.
Not judging yourself is important, being able to have compassion with your self when you are judging yourself is helpful for me. So it is not about being perfect but about doing it - making an effort and doing it every day.
Any other suggestions that assist people in keeping themselves safe are welcome.
ETA
[DLMURL]https://www.myptsd.com/c/albums/the-mindful-way-through-depression-audiobook-full-youtube.1493/[/DLMURL]
for anyone who wants to check it out.
I have taken part in several challenges held on this forum and have found them quite helpful.
If anyone is interested I am thinking of organising a challenge.
This would be done by using The Mindful Way Through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness (Book & CD) Paperback – June 2, 2007 by Mark Williams, John Teasdale, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Zindel Segal).. You can buy it from the usual places.
The "The Mindful Way Through Depression" audiobook is also on youtube (search for the mindful way through depression freeing yourself from chronic unhappiness). It is 5:14:55 long. To get an idea what the challenge involves it might be good to listen to the 5 hours and 14 minutes to see if it is for you before you buy the book/CD.
It has 8 practice tracks at the end. As we did the 8 week challenge we will do all the 8 practice tracks.
To participate in this challenge you would need to be able to listen to 15 minutes per day and then come on and comment on what you thought about the 15 minutes. You would need to practice which ever practice tracks that we are doing that week.
Anyone highly symptomatic with PTSD, depression or suicidal ideation wouldn't be in the best place to participate in the challenge. So best to wait until you are stable.
I put this up now, so people can think about it. It would start on the 15th of June 2015 for eight weeks, if people are interested.
If people want to start listening to it now and see what they are thinking and post here that would be good. I will open up a PM closer to the commencement date.
I have been also looking at this free online course as well. http://palousemindfulness.com/selfguidedMBSR.html
Let me know what you think.
Cheers,
ms spock
Edited to Add
I would hope that we are supportive, respectful, caring whilst being candid and honest with each other. The Happiness Challenge and the Self Esteem Challenge both saw some people growing and changing so much. I was most impressed with people's commitment and dedication. I hope that we can develop those connections and camaraderie.
Being able to breath and to ground would be two handy skills to have under your belt before the challenge begins. At least a fair bit of practice on breathing and grounding would be good to carry you over. I have great problems with my breathing, grounding and being present in this now, so no one has to be perfect but having a working practice that is taking care of themselves is important to my mind.
I would suggest that people have familiarity with https://www.myptsd.com/threads/10-p...s-negative-thinking-styles.51948/#post-841137
Reading the David Burns book could be so helpful to stop being stuck in rumination. (A challenge using this book would be a possible next challenge for us all.) There is time to read that book before we begin the challenge.
I would suggest that people have mental health professional or mindfulness mentor or peer support to check in with. This needs to be in place or arranged before the commencement of our challenge.
Going on youtube and search for the authors talks (Jon Kabat-Zinn, John Teasdale, Zindel Segal, Mark Williams) and listen to them. This will give people a good insight to the path that we are going on. It will be for some people and not some others.
The main thing is to have a curious, compassionate, inquisitive mind/attitude towards your thinking and to realise that minds wander and if your whole practice is watching your mind wander that is okay. If your mind wanders and you can't be curious and compassionate then having compassion for your lack of compassion for yourself would be a step to take that could be helpful. That is my biggest understanding at the moment. Everytime I listen to the audiobook I learn something new. It will be exciting to read other people's understanding.
I am not a professional so I want to make suggestions that enable people to choose to make themselves safe. It is each individual member's responsibility to do what they need to do before the challenge begins to make themselves safe.
Not judging yourself is important, being able to have compassion with your self when you are judging yourself is helpful for me. So it is not about being perfect but about doing it - making an effort and doing it every day.
Any other suggestions that assist people in keeping themselves safe are welcome.
ETA
[DLMURL]https://www.myptsd.com/c/albums/the-mindful-way-through-depression-audiobook-full-youtube.1493/[/DLMURL]
for anyone who wants to check it out.
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