the mindful saint

For you to walk away with great confidence that you have some practical, powerful new tools to help you:

a) Enjoy being at work more,b) Improve overall wellness, andc) Make every aspect of your life

more satisfying and meaningful

For you to leave this workshop feeling like you had a mini-vacation

Discuss some ideas about what mindfulness is and how it can be applied to accomplish our goals

Practical applications

Several periods of Q/A

No need to write what’s on the slides

Let’s save questions for Q/A spots keep on track with time

Mini breaks every 30 minutes/as needed

Full breaks every 60 minutes/as needed

The Power of Purpose

Serve NOW

Monastery on steroids

Being grateful for difficult people

Almost ordained

Mindfulness is the balanced, non-judgmental awareness of what is coming in through the senses in the present moment, including our sense of sense of self; our thoughts and emotions – “What’s happening NOW?”

Being the Still Point of Awareness in the middle of the chaos that is the mind, our emotions, and the world around us

Increased Serenity in the face of difficulties More accepting attitude toward life and its

challenges More fluid adaptation to change and

development of more effective coping strategies Lasting decreases in a variety of stress-related

physical symptoms, including chronic pain Significant decreases in anxiety and depression Improved concentration and creativity Improved immune system functioning

Decreased symptoms secondary to cancer Increased social skills Increased ability to orient attention Increased working memory and planning

and organization Increased self esteem Increased sense of calmness, relaxation,

and self acceptance. Increased quality of sleep Increased Compassion (UW Study)

Ultimate psychology – removes the root of all neuroses (more later…..)

Sit

Walk

Surveys / Beth

What are most common stressors at work? a) Overworked/understaffedb) Difficult parents of patientsc) Co-Workersd) A few listed sensory overload

What are most common stressors at home?a) Moneyb) Task/Choresc) Caregiving

Mostly or completely out of our control

Focus on our reaction to events rather than the event itself – The Space Between

Learning to welcome difficult situations/people – training to become the ultimate human being

Freedom from state = Improved interactions with patients = Alignment with our purpose

Effects of stress – Effects of mindfulness

Mental Recovery (running analogy)

Sitting as ultimate recovery – Mini Vacation

Improved Sleep

Integrating Mindfulness

Transforming work/chores, downtime to becomes peace time/training time, enjoying little miracles

The Wisdom that Sets us Free – We are not our ego

With the source of negative emotions gone, our natural state of peace, satisfaction, and compassion is revealed

Fight or Flight

Conscious Breathing

Mental Noting/Stopping (Research by Matthew Lieberman at UCLA shows that when people put words to their emotions the amygdala cools down almost instantly and the prefrontal cortex goes to work.)

Conscious breathing/mental noting Investigation of emotion Untying the knot (as soon as there is time)

1) Mad Man2) Seeing all causes and conditions

Frequent breath brakes

Mindfulness in activity, mental noting

Daily sitting

Difficult co-workers may need love more than patients - they’re asking for love

Loving them helps patients

Mirroring and Reflecting

Hearing before solving

Very powerful when someone is emotional –Compassionate communication gets our needs met

Especially powerful when we’re being criticized / attacked

How mindfulness develops listening