Sublime

Mindfulness (Sati)

“May my practice serve others” or “For the sake of all beings, may I be awake in this life.”

broadly useful methods of change that work, and that do so through change processes that have precision, scope, and depth.

Taking Responsibility for Your Relationship to Experience

Many of the unhooking skills in this book involve a process called “noticing and naming”: noticing your thoughts and feelings with curiosity and naming them in a nonjudgmental manner (e.g., “Here’s anxiety” or “Feeling anxious”). And

In OBEY mode, our thoughts and feelings dominate us;

the practice of awareness in everyday life – in other words, the practice of mindfulness.

Practice “Just Because I Choose To”

He combined acceptance practices with methods for helping patients do more of what they care about, focusing on replacement behaviors. If someone is sleeping late in an effort to escape depressive feelings, a replacement behavior of going for an early-morning walk might be recommended.