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4/12/2018 1 Mindfulness and Compassion: Meeting Challenges, Staying Safe Mindfulness and Compassion: Meeting Challenges, Staying Safe

Ronald Siegel Chris Germer Meditation and Psychotherapy May 4-5, 2018 Cambridge Health Alliance/Harvard Medical School Ronald Siegel Chris Germer Meditation and Psychotherapy May 4-5, 2018 Cambridge Health Alliance/Harvard Medical School

The Challenge The Challenge

Open to pain Deal with pain

Overwhelmed? Overwhelmed?

Capacity to Bear Challenge Intensity of Challenge

And I, Sir, Can Be Run Through with a Sword And I, Sir, Can Be Run Through with a Sword Affect Tolerance Affect Tolerance

 Not “my,” but “the”

 Sadness  Anger  Fear  Lust

 Not “my,” but “the”

 Sadness  Anger  Fear  Lust

Backdraft Backdraft

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4/12/2018 2 Mindfulness and Self-compassion Exercise

Mindfulness is loving awareness of moment-to-moment experience. Self-compassion loving awareness of the experiencer. Mindfulness asks, “What am I experiencing?” Self-compassion asks, “What do I need?” Mindfulness regulates emotion through attention Self-compassion regulates emotion through affiliation Mindfulness is calming Self-compassion is warming Mindfulness is loving awareness of moment-to-moment experience. Self-compassion loving awareness of the experiencer. Mindfulness asks, “What am I experiencing?” Self-compassion asks, “What do I need?” Mindfulness regulates emotion through attention Self-compassion regulates emotion through affiliation Mindfulness is calming Self-compassion is warming

Best Friends Mindfulness And Self-compassion

YIN: comfort, connect, validate YANG: protect, provide, motivate YIN: comfort, connect, validate YANG: protect, provide, motivate

Two Approaches to Self-Compassion Staying Safe vs. Turning toward Pain Staying Safe vs. Turning toward Pain

Turning toward Safety I Turning toward Safety I

 Outer or distal focus

 Walking Meditation  Listening Meditation  Nature Meditation  Eating Meditation  Open eye practices

 Outer or distal focus

 Walking Meditation  Listening Meditation  Nature Meditation  Eating Meditation  Open eye practices

Turning toward Safety II Turning toward Safety II

 Inner focus

 Equanimity Practices  Metta Practice  Distress Tolerance

and other DBT techniques

 Inner focus

 Equanimity Practices  Metta Practice  Distress Tolerance

and other DBT techniques

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Turning Toward the Sharp Points Turning Toward the Sharp Points

 Moving toward anything

unwanted or avoided

 How is it experienced in

the body?

 Pain, fear, sadness,

anger

 Unwanted images or

memories

 Urges toward

compulsive behaviors

 Moving toward anything

unwanted or avoided

 How is it experienced in

the body?

 Pain, fear, sadness,

anger

 Unwanted images or

memories

 Urges toward

compulsive behaviors

Attention to Present Affect Attention to Present Affect

 Focus on what, not why

 Can you be with or breath into what is

happening right now?

 Similar to Gendlin’s Focusing; Levine’s

Somatic Experiencing; Gestalt techniques.

 Focus on what, not why

 Can you be with or breath into what is

happening right now?

 Similar to Gendlin’s Focusing; Levine’s

Somatic Experiencing; Gestalt techniques.

When Mindfulness of Inner Experience Can Be Harmful When Mindfulness of Inner Experience Can Be Harmful

 When overwhelmed

by traumatic memories

 When afraid of

disintegration, loss of sense of self

 When suffering from

psychosis

 When overwhelmed

by traumatic memories

 When afraid of

disintegration, loss of sense of self

 When suffering from

psychosis

Life Preservers Life Preservers

 Concentration

Practices

 Stepping out of the

thought stream

 Eyes open, external

sensory focus

 Ground, trees, sky,

wind, sounds

 Concentration

Practices

 Stepping out of the

thought stream

 Eyes open, external

sensory focus

 Ground, trees, sky,

wind, sounds

CHALLENGED SAFE OVERWHELMED

What Does The Client Need?

Safety– Behavioral practice, comfort, soothing Challenge – Mental training, turning toward suffering Overwhelm -

Opening and Closing Opening and Closing

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4/12/2018 4 How To Deal with Backdraft? How To Deal with Backdraft?

Practice: Compassion With Equanimity

Integrating Mindfulness and Self-compassion into Psychotherapy: 3 Pathways Integrating Mindfulness and Self-compassion into Psychotherapy: 3 Pathways

 Embodied Practice  Therapeutic Relationship  Home Practices  Embodied Practice  Therapeutic Relationship  Home Practices

Mindfulness-oriented therapy “staying with experience” emotion regulation through awareness Compassion-oriented therapy “warming up experience” emotion regulation through affiliation Mindfulness-oriented therapy “staying with experience” emotion regulation through awareness Compassion-oriented therapy “warming up experience” emotion regulation through affiliation

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