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I personally have a daily practice in mindfulness meditation, deep breathing, and various things that help me re-frame thoughts. I also practice a concept in my journey known as "radical acceptance" which I was thrilled to read about in the text. For the purposes of this assignment, I will focus on mindfulness meditation. In regards to mindfulness meditation, I find it most affective when coupled with a radical acceptance component. Our text defines the radical acceptance component nicely in that it is the ability to live with, come to peaceful terms with events that cannot be changed (Toseland and Rivas, 2017). Mindfulness meditation coupled with this acceptance piece has proven to show measurable outcomes on mind wandering as well. In a study done in 2017, mindfulness meditation alone showed gains in focus but meditation coupled with acceptance showed measurable gains in focus when oriented to a task (Rahl, Lindsay, Pacilio, Brown, Creswell, 2017). I have found this to be true in my own personal practice. The implications are far reaching with those who have experienced significant trauma. When used in clinical settings, mindfulness can create space for those we serve to separate from the traumatic event as a here and now event and place it into context of time, truth, and feeling. This allows for space for the therapy to occur in a real time and place, the present. I will share a personal example. I was diagnosed with complex PTSD many years ago due to significant multiple separate episodes of trauma which included a mother with mental illness, abandonment, the death of my sister, and witnessing a suicide in 2015. After practicing mindfulness meditation with a radical acceptance focus, including many Buddhist (non-religious, but spiritual) practices; I was able to go places and do things I could not before. My body would no longer tense up, shake, sweat, or vibrate from within. I was able to see the events as separate from me and occurring in their time and place, not now. I practice this on a daily basis, usually for ten to twenty minutes per session and I do many other things such as walking and groups for support. The mindfulness piece of it I believe creates the bandwidth for effectiveness of all other healthy activity I choose. Without it, I feel it would be muted, throttled, and I would miss out on a lot due to the static that comes from unresolved fear. References: Rahl, H. A., Lindsay, E. K., Pacilio, L. E., Brown, K. W., & Creswell, J. D. (2017). Brief Mindfulness Meditation Training Reduces Mind Wandering: The Critical Role of Acceptance. Emotion (Washington, D.C.), 17(2), 224–230. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000250 DIRECT LINK: https://i-share-aru.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_ARU/qk9obt/ cdi_unpaywall_primary_10_1037_emo0000250 Toseland, R., & Rivas, R. (2017). Introduction to Group Work Practice, an, Global Edition (Eighth Edition.). Pearson Education, Limited.

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