Introduction guide to meditation in counseling.

1. BASICS:
MEditATion
Posture (stillness):
Breathing:
Relaxation:
Types of meditation:
Stillness:
SENSORS & TECHNOLOGY:
PROGRAMS:
PURPOSE:
Feedback/Progress:

2. PREPARIN
G:
IDentifying relaxation, state of
mind,
current mood,
current emotions,
current events
future and past events,
attending to here and now,
GOALS for session (Time, etc.)

3. POSTURE:
BACK STRAIGHT
LIMBS RElAXED
MUSCLES RESTING
BODY WEIGHING LIGHT
OPEN and CLOSED
SIT-With-Yourself

4. EYES OPEN/
ClOSED

5. BREATHING
IN/OUT

6. BREATHING
IN/OUT

7. BREATHING:
RHYTHM
TIME
REACHING
ATTENDING
NOT AVOIDING
OPENNESS
ACCEPTANCE
COMMITMENT
BODY & MIND
AIR-THROAT-LUNG-BODY-bELLY

8. Turning in/integrating stimuli
and breathing:
letting stimuli in – paying attention to guide or inside movement
RHYTHM
TIME
REACHING
ATTENDING
NOT AVOIDING
OPENNESS
ACCEPTANCE
COMMITMENT
BODY & MIND

9. ATTENTION
AREASOutside
Inside
Muscles
Air
Sensory
Motor
Points of contact
Points of relaxation
Points of soreness
Senosry journey mind and body

10. SENSORY(processing and sensory integration)
Feelings:
Coldness
Warmth
Pains
Soreness
Flow
Tension
Release
Sequences
Combinations
attention

11. HEART RATE &
PHYSIOLoGY
BIOPLASTICITY - FITNESS

12. FAST & SLOWATTENTION/ATTENDANCE & RELAXATION & MEDITATION

13. PROGRAMS &
TECHNOLOGY:Stillness – THE TECH NEEDS STILLNESS.
Feedback –seeing my movements
Goals
Thresholds - Connecting to goals and treatment
Sensitivity – How sensitive am I?
Desensitization – What areas can I work on?
Learning about thyself – What makes me different?
Thoughts are things
– Being with my feedback hearing and seeing
Body and brain
- How are these related? How much control do I have?
Plasticity and automaticity
- Where can I be more fit? How can I build? What do I want
my future to hold/look like?

14. BUILT BY BAC:
Thank you!
A clinician can implement this
intro to meditation with our
clients readily and easily and
within a few minutes; this is
helpful in brain-training and
especially for at-home
neurofeedback!