Group Mindfulness Exercise (aka Mood Boosts) - Starting October 12th at 9 AM Eastern
Many of you know with the new design we significantly updated the new growth path. Feedback so far has been really positive. One of the activities you can do on the growth path that is very powerful is the mindfulness exercise. Mindfulness is now a core part of psychotherapy for many psychological challenges like depression, anxiety, substance abuse, relational challenges, and eating disorders. You can see a list of over 65 of them here.
One of the challenges with mindfulness is it can be a bit hard to do the exercises because it requires you to slow down, breathe, and listen. Like many things, when you have support, it is much easier to do things. So, what I'm proposing is a type of mindfulness/mood boost group. You can almost think of this as a sort of walking/running club. We'll meet every weekday morning at 9 am in the new mindfulness room. I'll open us up with a short affirmation, share the mindfulness exercise, and then we'll all listen to it right at that time. At the end of it, we'll reflect on how we feel. It'll help us all individually take a step forward our growth paths and also strengthen us a community.
I'll plan to start this on Monday 10/12 at 9am eastern. If it works, then we can expand times. Thoughts and feedback welcome on this idea and how we might be able to make it better. Thank you!
That is just what I need at this moment!
Love it. What is the procedure come time on Monday?
I am so excited!!!!! I try to practice mindfulness many times a day, but sometimes I'm just not feeling it and I think having all of your support and people to practice it with is a genius idea!!! Can't wait!! Thank you so much! My counselor is going to be so excited for me! Hahaha
Need check what time is that in my time zone I will join if the timing works
These r soo effective n aa v welcome addition....
Its great
Very good idea! I'm joining in tomorrow!
I love this idea @GlenM . Being able to do this as a group would be a great help to many members in our community. Tho i do have a question about the time.. Is it 9am EST ?? As i want to make sure i show up at the right time! Thanks again for such a great excerise..
@StormDancer
Yeah, it's 9 AM EST, according to the bottom of the post...unless this was amended without my knowing!
Yup! 9 am. See you all there :)
Hi Glen,
This is a superb idea, of course being in Scotland isn't great for the timings for me. However if you were to open it up to more times, I'd definitely take part. I will try to get on to the first one today though, the mindfulness exercises are brilliant. I love that they stop you in your tracks and slow you down and almost ALWAYS feel better afterward :D <3
JM :D
Morning all! Here is the schedule for today 10/12.
9-9:05 Greetings and affirmation
-rate how you feel on stress, anxiety, and mood on a scale of 1-10 prior to the exercise.
9:05-9:10 Mindfulness exercise
-we'll be using this one today: https://www.7cups.com/exercises/mindfulness2/
9:10-9:15 Closing
-re-rating of how you feel on that same scale of 1-10
-encouragement
-share in this thread or your feed that you participated with hashtag #MindfulnessGroup
This is a pilot run this week. Next week we can expand it to another time. What time would be best?
Also, teens, I'm sorry, but this is just for adults. I should have thought about how to do this exercise in parallel in a team room. I'll talk with @iara today and we'll get something figured out asap.
Finally, if you are unable to listen with us at 9 am this morning, and you still want to participate, then simply listen to the above exercise by midnight tonight and post here. That way we can have a real time group and a non-real time group all moving through this at the same time. Thanks!
Thanks!
@GlenM
Thanks, Glen. I slept in...I'll get you the feedback by tonight.
