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Unconditional Acceptance
Paradox
Not resignation
Active acceptance
Time Out!
In a recent national survey of 13,500 college students,
nearly 45 percent reported being so depressed that they
had difficulty functioning, and 94 percent reported feeling
overwhelmed by everything they had to do.
Richard Kadison
Too much
to do
Stress (feeling
Overwhelmed)
Depression
Simplify!
Do less, not more (quantity affects quality)
Reduce multi-tasking (quantity AND quality)
Time Affluence (versus Material Affluence)
Time for family and friends
10 months follow-up
Relapse medication: 38%
Relapse medication*exercise: 31%
Relapse exercise: 9%
Mindfulness Meditation
One-pointedness
Deep breathing
No good/bad meditation
Decrease in anxiety
Mood change
Pre-frontal cortex activation
Immune response
Breathing
Stress/Anxiety
Calm/wellbeing
Shallow
breathing
Deep
breathing
Research on Gratitude
Emmons and McCullough (2002)
Four groups: gratitude, hassles, superior, control
Change Is Hard
Although studies have shown that real change can
result from training, most of the time the change doesnt
seem to be sustained, which is why it is often called the
honeymoon effect. Considering that more than 60 billion
dollars spent in North America alone on training, this is a
sobering observation.
Goleman, Boyatzis, & McKee