Coaching practices for David Treleaven Mindfulness

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• Every app hands me a twenty-minute body scan and somewhere in the middle of all that sustained inward attention I come undone
• My everyday life — the dishes, the walk, the commute — passes in a fog while my mind is somewhere else entirely, and I want to actually be here for the plain, mundane moments instead of sleepwalking through them waiting for the parts that supposedly matter.
• I keep straining to "get into" a meditative state like awareness is something I have to switch on and aim
• Whenever I try to be present I end up grading myself
• My mindfulness practice has narrowed down to just watching my breath and it’s gone a bit stale and flat

Practices that may help

1. Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness, Made Practical
   Trauma-sensitive mindfulness, developed by David Treleaven, adapts standard mindfulness practices so they do not inadvertently reactivate or overwhelm people with trauma histories. Standard mindfulness — including sustained inward attention and closed-eye body scanning — can trigger trauma responses in some people. Trauma-sensitive adaptations maintain the evidence-based benefits of mindfulness while reducing that risk. The adaptations are clinically developed and growing in evidence; mindfulness overall has a strong research base.
2. Titrate: start with shorter, shallower practice and increase slowly
   Build mindfulness tolerance incrementally — brief and externally anchored before deep and sustained.
   Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness, Made Practical
3. Bring contemplative attention to ordinary moments
   Practice full presence in mundane activities as a form of sacred attentiveness.
   The Perennial Philosophy, Made Practical
4. Detached Mindfulness, Made Practical
   Detached mindfulness, developed by Adrian Wells in Metacognitive Therapy, is a mental stance of observing thoughts without engaging, analysing, or believing them — like watching clouds drift past without chasing any of them. It directly targets the extended rumination and worry that drive anxiety and depression, with growing clinical trial evidence supporting MCT overall.
5. Glimpse practice: a 10-second recognition of aware space
   Pause, drop the question "What am I aware of?" and simply notice that awareness is already on.
   Non-Dual Awareness, Made Practical
6. The attitudes of mindfulness
   Cultivate the inner stances — non-judging, patience, beginner’s mind, acceptance, letting go — that make attention healing rather than harsh.
   Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
7. Right mindfulness — the four foundations of awareness
   Practise systematic awareness of body, feeling-tones, mind states, and dharmas as the core of satipatthana.
   The Noble Eightfold Path as a Practical Life Framework
8. Resting in the gap between thoughts
   Notice the small silences between thoughts and let attention settle there.
   The Power of Now, In Practice
9. Witnessing thoughts — observing without being them
   Watch thoughts arise and pass without identifying with them — you are the awareness in which thoughts appear, not the thoughts themselves.
   Open Monitoring Meditation, Made Practical
10. Develop introspective metacognition
    Train the ability to notice, in real time, when attention has wandered — before you’ve been distracted for a long time.
    Shamatha: The Buddhist Practice of Calm Abiding

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