Pub Date : 2021-06-01DOI: 10.1093/MED-PSYCH/9780197510001.003.0008
C. Smart
As we are nearing the end of the program, you will be invited to reflect on how you might sustain your mindfulness practice going forward (assuming you have found it helpful!). Taking responsibility for our own meditation practice is something we refer to as “becoming our own meditation instructor.” This chapter also contains information regarding the daylong retreat that will occur between this session and the final one. You will be given guidance on how to prepare for this silent day of group mindfulness practice, and time should be spent in session addressing any questions or concerns about the retreat. We will also review your homework experiences from the prior week, tracking reacting versus responding in relationships, and the final new practice of Loving-Kindness is introduced as a way to cultivate compassion for ourselves and ultimately for others.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-01DOI: 10.1093/MED-PSYCH/9780197510001.003.0005
C. Smart
The main principle introduced in this session is the idea of a “commentator”, the voice of automatic thoughts that contributes to the emotional reactivity in response to cognitive slip-ups. Through the homework of tracking “slips and falls,” participants are invited to reflect on this aspect of their mind that is constantly commenting on their experience. This, in turn, is connected to the concept of mind-wandering; this is a core concept in most discussions of mindfulness practices, and may become even more of an issue as we age. Participants are given the second of two Mindful Yoga series, and the attention hierarchy is also reinforced and connected to increasing experience with the practice. Tracking unpleasant events is also assigned for homework.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-01DOI: 10.1093/MED-PSYCH/9780197510001.003.0006
C. Smart
In this session, a distinction is made between mindfulness (coming to the present moment) and awareness (what we find when we come to this moment). After a discussion of the prior week’s practices, you will then be introduced to a new practice, “Open Monitoring,” as a way to cultivate awareness and make space for our emotional reactivity. In this context, we will talk about the idea of “falling down a hole”—when we have a sustained negative emotional reaction, for example, in response to a cognitive slip-up. For homework, you will be assigned the practice “Emotional Weather” as a way to actively work with emotions. Walking meditation (“Aimless Wandering”) is provided as a third home practice.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-01DOI: 10.1093/MED-PSYCH/9780197510001.003.0002
C. Smart
This first session covers the introduction to the program. It establishes the group context and orients participants to what to expect for the remainder of the program. Participants may have had varying levels of exposure to mindfulness, so time is taken to talk about what mindfulness is in the context of this program, and specifically how it is relevant to older adults and late-life cognitive decline. The raisin exercise is used as an in-class example of mindfulness. Information is given on the “attitudes of mindfulness,” aspirational principles that people can bring to their experiences in the program. Participants are introduced to the first homework exercises, and time is taken to troubleshoot when participants will practice and how they will remember to engage in daily practice.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-01DOI: 10.1093/MED-PSYCH/9780197510001.003.0004
C. Smart
The main focus of the current session is to help participants see the connection between their cognitive slip-ups (which they were asked to track in the prior week’s homework) and the emotional reactions they have to those slip-ups (i.e., “falls,” as in “slips and falls”). Homework is reviewed to provide material for this discussion. This segues into providing psychoeducation on the hierarchy of attention, and Focused Attention mindfulness is again reinforced as a way to decrease slip-ups. Participants are introduced to the first of two Mindful Yoga series as another way to experience present-moment awareness, and as a complement to sitting meditation practice. Tracking pleasant events is also assigned for homework as a way to make the bridge between mindfulness practice and daily activities and life experiences.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-01DOI: 10.1093/MED-PSYCH/9780197510001.003.0009
C. Smart
This final session provides a time and space for reflection – reflecting on the retreat experiences you have just had, your experiences with the program as a whole, and also your plans to take the practice forward. This might include how you could seek additional support (e.g., joining a local mindfulness group) or even how the group itself can support one other in continued practice. In particular, time is taken to troubleshoot potential difficulties in keeping up with practice, and you are reminded that, much like exercise, benefits will continue only with continued practice. If the optional booster session(s) will take place, time is spent scheduling and preparing for this final session.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-01DOI: 10.1093/MED-PSYCH/9780197510001.003.0007
C. Smart
In this session, we will take time to review your experiences of “falling down the hole”—having a sustained emotional reaction to something like a cognitive slip-up. This is connected to further cultivation of awareness as a way to track our experience without reacting to it. The discussion of reacting versus responding is broadened to incorporate our experiences with others, and how we communicate with others. We will then discuss different communication styles and for homework, you will be encouraged to track your use of these communication styles, as well as the tendency to respond versus react. Finally, you will continue with Open Monitoring practice and you are invited to track your mindfulness in daily life and to find ways of adding to your mental bank account.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-01DOI: 10.1093/MED-PSYCH/9780197510001.003.0003
C. Smart
The second session involves taking a deeper dive into mindfulness practice. We begin by having a discussion about your initial experience with mindfulness from the prior week. As this mindfulness might be quite novel for certain people, it is possible that you or others in the group may have strong opinions or emotional reactions to the homework. All of this discussion material is welcomed as a way to start exploring the topic of cognitive slip-ups as we age—something common to almost all older adults—and how mindfulness can be one way to offset those slips. You will then be introduced to the concept of cognitive reserve as a “mental bank account” that can be enhanced through mindfulness.
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