How Mindful Are You Of Mindfulness?

Establish more rapport.

Remember what we have already said to them.

Experience more empathy.

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Block out the unpleasant experience.

Change the thoughts and feelings associated with it.

Enhance a person’s capacity to suppress their emotional response to the experience.

Focus our attention on something more pleasant, rather than being caught up in things that drive the stress response.

Think differently about what is stressing us out.

Suppress the stress response using our breathing.

Helps us focus on the problem and what we need to do to resolve it, rather than on self-critical thoughts about our ‘failure’.

Prevents the setback or failure from becoming unpleasant, meaning we are much less likely to want to avoid it.

Results in positive emotions, which increases the flexibility of our thinking and behaviour.

Be more aware of what you are planning to say next.

Offer friendly, compassionate advice when people are experiencing difficulties.

Focus on our breath while people are speaking.

The human brain has evolved to be able to focus on multiple complex tasks at the same time.

Although it is more stressful, we get through more work when we multitask.

Conversations can be just as meaningful even if we are multitasking while we have them.