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In this guided experiment, you'll begin learning and practicing the foundational skills of mindfulness: the ability to wake up from autopilot and connect more fully with your life, moment by moment.

While aligning your behavior with your core values is essential to building a meaningful life, mindfulness helps you see clearly where you are and how you're moving through each moment, like turning on a light inside the lighthouse of awareness.

Through this practice, you will:

  • Strengthen your ability to observe the present moment without judgment

  • Learn to focus and redirect attention (the "spotlight" of awareness)

  • Explore your five senses, touch, sight, sound, smell, and taste, with openness and curiosity

  • Increase emotion regulation, cognitive flexibility, and self-awareness

  • Deepen connection with yourself and others

This experiment introduces the "Observe" skill from Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and sets the foundation for more advanced mindfulness practices in upcoming episodes.

As you practice illuminating your experience with awareness, you'll begin to notice what truly matters, and how to live more intentionally in alignment with your values, one moment at a time.

Welcome to the experiment.

Learn more at https://www.honestmentalhealth.com/

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