1. With attention on the person, repeat to yourself:
"Just like me, this person is seeking some happiness for his/her life."
2. With attention on the person, repeat to yourself:
"Just like me, this person is trying to avoid suffering in his/her life."
3. With attention on the person, repeat to yourself:
"Just like me, this person has known sadness, lonliness, and despair."
4. With attention on the person, repeat to yourself:
"Just like me, this person is seeking to fulfill his/her needs."
5. With attention on the person, repeat to yourself:
"Just like me, this person is learning about life."
Expected Result: Insights, increase in responsibility.
Instructions: Take a thirty-minute walk.
On your walk: Pick out something and think of it as "This____________."
Pick out something and think of it as "That____________."
Repeat with large and small objects, close and far objects.
Expected result: Calming, increase in energy.
2. Concentrate all your attention on a single object for a period of two minutes. [Time: 2 minutes.]
Expected result: More focused, relaxed.
3. Choose an automatic gesture you make and repeat it deliberately until it comes off automatic. [Time: 5+ minutes.]
Expected result: Insights, self-control.
4. Pick a frequent worry and outline the sequence of thoughts that lead up to that worry. Deliberately think the thoughts in sequence until the worry fades. [Time: 5+ minutes.]
Expected result: Recovered energy.
5. Deliberately smile until you feel happy. [Time: 2+ minutes.]
Expected result: Sense of well being.
6. Make a list of all the incomplete projects you have. Prioritise the list. [Time: 30+ minutes.]
Expected result: Recovery of attention.
7. Take a walk and count forms until colours appear brighter. [Time: 30+ minutes.]
Expected result: Extroversion, sense of being alive.
8. Climb one or more flights of stairs and before each step whisper something you are grateful for. [Time: 30+ minutes.]
Expected result: Sense of Grace.
9. Deliberately do a good deed for someone without being found out. [Time: 30+ minutes.]
Expected result: Increased sense of self-respect.
10. Breathing in, notice something far away. Breathing out, notice something close. Repeat at least ten times. [Time: 5+ minutes.]
Expected result: Recovery of perspective.
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