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Session 8: Embracing Your Life - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Topic: Savoring and Gratitude (10 min)
        
        Informal Practice: Gratitude for Small Things
        (10 min)
        
        Topic: Self-Appreciation (10 min)
        
        Informal Practice; Appreciating Our Good Qualities ( 20 min)
        
        Break (15 min)
        
        Topic: Tips for Maintaining a Practice (12 min)
        
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        Savoring & gratitude provides foundation
        
        Anyone noticed they forgot to include personal qualities in gratitude list?
        Anyone in the room finds it difficult to receive a compliment?
        
        Why difficult? jealous, brag, alienate, alone.
        Two insights:
        
        Common humanity- everyone has strengths. I may be better at this and u better at that.
        
        Interdependent causality
        
        Apply MSC 3 component for both + and - qualitifies!
        
        Write down 10 small and insignificant things
        
        Say out loud, popcorn style 1-2 things
        
        Ask how everyone feel
        
        "One key to knowing joy is to be easily pleased"
        
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        Savoring: recognize, allow to be drawn, linger and let go
        Most mindfulness practice can be practiced as savoring practice by shifting the intention(my example: washing hands)
        
        Gratitude
        
        Enhance well-being (numberous of studies, Yale popular course)
        
        Wisdom practice.
        
        Relational/Connection practice.
        Video (2): "A Good Day", "How my son ruined my life"
      - How to get the most out of + exp, + qualities in life.
        Savoring the good
        
        Default mode network always search for problem (evolution).
        
        Negativity bias: Velcro for bad and Teflon for good ones
        
        Neg narrows perceptual field. + broaden. Helen Keller " When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us"
        
        Solution: Intentional pay attention to- savoring, gratitude, self-appreciation