It dives deep into explaining the fundamentals of mindfulness in an impeccable scientific manner. The more than 600-page book presents the details of an 8-week course known as Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (MBSR) offered through the Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester, Massachusetts that Kabat-Zinn founded in 1979. I have read the 25 th anniversary issue, published in 2013. 1944), a very readable and practical book on mindfulness, published in 1990. I wanted you to try to figure it out first.I have immensely enjoyed reading Full Catastrophe Living by Dr. I didn’t share the six solutions I’ve seen to Part 2. It’s a terrific exercise for starting conversation about collaborative problem-solving, boosting creativity, and avoiding self-imposed cognitive traps. The use in conflict resolution courses and training is obvious. How I use this exercise in conflict resolution I’d much rather leave them happy than irritated with me. At that point, I like to add in, “I know of at least six solutions.” People get downright jubilant as they come up with additional solutions to the first one. And every single time, creative things begin to happen. That’s when I’ll provide the two hints described above. Accusatory glances come my way (“Why are you torturing us, Tammy?”). Sometimes pens get tossed onto the table in utter defeat, before any attempt is made at all. When I give the instructions for Part 2, there is usually an audible groan. It feels true and I suppose that’s why this comment shows up so often. I don’t know if this is true and haven’t found a reliable source of data on this. I’ve heard it said that children can solve this puzzle more quickly than adults because they don’t add the rule that adults, succumbing to self-imposed limitations, do. I eavesdrop on their conversation, of course, and notice that once they have a companion in crime, they stick with it a bit longer and push each other to think in new ways. If I allow people to work on the puzzle together, more figure it out than when they work on it alone. And many adults self-impose a rule I haven’t imposed - they assume the lines may not extend beyond the boundary formed by the 8 dots along the outside of the square. The “trick,” of course, is that you have to think outside box - quite literally - to be able to connect the dots with four straight lines without lifting your pen off the paper. If they’ve truly never run into the puzzle before, and don’t know the “trick” to solving it, they will sometimes throw up their hands and accuse me of giving them an unsolvable task. Many people struggle with Part 1 of the exercise but they keep at it for a while.
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