MINDFULNESS STANDARDS

The following skills are a compilation of research from established mindfulness scales, such as MAAS, CAMM... (rewrite) The Kindfulness Curriculum aligns each lesson to these mindfulness skills. 

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The objective of practicing mindfulness is to become intentionally aware. It is the most authentic and effective foundation for lifelong socio-emotional learning. Based on extensive research, Kindfulness has identified five core competencies of…

The objective of practicing mindfulness is to become intentionally aware. It is the most authentic and effective foundation for lifelong socio-emotional learning. Based on extensive research, Kindfulness has identified five core competencies of mindfulness, each with their own skill sets. The competencies cover the what, how, and why of observing the present moment. What = blue. How = orange. Why = purple.

  • Attending to one’s activities of the moment
    • In opposition to behaving mechanically while attention is focused elsewhere

  • Intentional effort to observe the ever-changing flow of private experience and gain a greater understanding of the nature of thoughts and feelings

    • Thoughts and feelings are seen as passing events in the mind rather than as inherent aspects of the self or valid reflections on reality

  • Non-identification

    • Awareness of one’s experience with knowledge that one is not their experience

    • Not being “carried away” by one’s thoughts and feelings

      • Letting thoughts and feelings come and go

    • Inhibiting secondary elaborative processing of thoughts, feelings, sensations that arise in the stream of consciousness

  • Non-judgmental acceptance of inner experience (How skill)

    • Taking a non-evaluative stance toward thoughts and feelings, characterized by curiosity, openness, and acceptance

      • Being experientially open to the reality of the present moment

      • Involves an active process of allowing current thoughts, feelings, and sensations, and a conscious decision to abandon one’s agenda to have a different experience

    • A commitment to maintain an attitude of curiosity about where the mind wanders whenever it inevitably drifts away from the breath, as well as curiosity about the different objects within one’s experience at any moment

  • Fully experiencing reality in vivid detail without resorting to words and thoughts (How skill)

  • Observing in the present (What skill)

    • Awareness of the present moment

      • Broad, encompassing, unfocused attention

    • Attention to the present moment

      • Focused attention

        • Internal stimuli

          • Self

          • Sensations?

          • Thoughts

          • Feelings

          • Phenomena

        • External stimuli

          • Other

          • Environment

          • Sensations?

      • Sustained attention to maintain an awareness of current experience

Switching-involves flexibility of attention so that one can redirect/shift the focus of attention from one object to another

 

  • Bringing attention back to the breath once a thought, feeling, or sensation has been acknowledge 
     

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