"Mindfulness means being awake.
It means knowing what you are doing."
- Jon Kabat-Zinn

Waking up from automatic pilot

Session overview:

  • Brief practice - waking up

  • Guidelines

  • Introductions

  • A first taste

  • Body scan

  • Tending the seeds

  • Discussion

  • Ten fingers of gratitude

Tending the seeds

Read the handout for Session one 'Waking up from automatic pilot' by clicking on the blue scroll.

Once a day this week click on the play button to hear a Body Scan. Don’t expect to feel anything in particular, in fact as best you can, give up all expectations about it and just let your experience be your experience. Don’t judge it, just keep doing it.

New Habits in Everyday Life.

Choose one routine activity in your daily life and make a deliberate effort to bring moment to moment awareness to that activity each time you do it - just as we did in the raisin exercise. Notice body sensations, thoughts and feelings as they arise.

Try using the ten finger gratitude practice: bring to mind ten things for which you are grateful, counting them on your fingers and opening to and savouring the sensations of gratitude in the body as best you can.

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