A Clinician's Guide to Teaching Mindfulness: The Comprehensive Session-by-Session Program for Mental Health Professionals and Health Care Providers

I always teach in the immediate. When I am working with someone, I don’t concern myself with where they are in the realization process or a specific trajectory. In this way, the teaching can be immediate and not “loaded” with preconceived ideas of where someone is coming from or where they are headed. Hence the exchange is intuitive, instant, and f

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The instruction is to relate compassionately with where we find ourselves and to begin to see our predicament as workable. We are stuck in patterns of grasping and fixating which cause the same thoughts and reactions to occur again and again and again. In this way we project our world. When we see that, even if it’s only for one second every three

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Take a few deep breaths, and with each exhale let go of any obvious tension in your mind and body. Now shift your attention fully away from any remaining stories or thoughts, and notice your actual present-moment experience. What sensations are you aware of in your body? Are there any strong emotions present? Do you feel anxious or restless as you

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