Did You Know That Mindfulness Uses CBT? — Kate Greenslade

CBT and Mindfulness in Real Life Situations

Here’s two examples of how CBT is integrated into mindfulness practices in real life situations.

1. Managing Workplace Stress

Mindfulness Technique: Acknowledge the stress in your body as sensations, without judgment, observe your physical and emotional reactions. Let them be there, simply notice them. When we fight how we feel it can often make it worse.

CBT Strategy: Identify specific thoughts contributing to stress, such as “I can’t handle this workload,” and challenge their validity. Replace them with more balanced thoughts, like “The workload is a lot, but I can manage it by prioritising tasks.”

2. Improving Relationships

Mindfulness Technique: Notice when you feel tense in a conversation with someone. Observe your thoughts without reacting immediately. Giving yourself this pause puts you in charge and opens up different options that weren’t available to you before.

CBT Strategy: Challenge any negative assumptions about others’ intentions and consider what’s true in that moment. By keeping the observations on you instead of them can reduce misunderstandings and it gives the other person an opportunity to understand what you’re feeling rather than feeling criticised.

Benefits of having Mindfulness with CBT

The combination of CBT with mindfulness gives you a comprehensive approach to understanding and improving your mental wellbeing. This integrated method helps manage everything from daily stress to more significant emotional challenges, giving you a clear path toward a more balanced and fulfilling life. If you’re interested in deepening your mindfulness practice with CBT techniques, exploring mindfulness coaching could be your next step toward a resilient and joyful life.

The approach offers tailored guidance on how to effectively apply these techniques. It educates but also equips you with cognitive and emotional tools to transform habitual life patterns.

It helps with anxiety, depression, managing stress and of course, personal growth.

This is the key difference between simply going to a meditation class and having 1:1 applied mindfulness coaching. If you want real and meaningful change, the latter is the way to make the lasting changes you truly want.

You can listen to my personal experiences using this approach in my own life here. It even led to me finding my Sister!

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