Coaching practices for Mindfulness Mini Practice

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• I run on autopilot from one thing to the next and only realize how wound up I am once I’ve snapped at someone
• Something just got to me in the middle of my day and I can feel myself reacting, but I’ve only got a couple of minutes before I have to keep going
• Whatever I touch in my morning sit completely evaporates the second real life starts, and the calm stays locked in "meditation time"
• Every app hands me a twenty-minute body scan and somewhere in the middle of all that sustained inward attention I come undone
• I want to actually feel what slowing down does, but a whole meal is too much to hold my attention on

Practices that may help

1. The three-minute breathing space
   A short, three-step mini-practice to step out of autopilot in the middle of a stressful day.
   Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
2. Mini-RAIN: a 2-minute version for mid-day use
   Apply the four steps rapidly in 2 minutes to break emotional reactivity in the middle of a difficult moment.
   RAIN Meditation: Tara Brach’s Four-Step Practice
3. Small glimpses, many times — the micro-dose delivery model
   Train non-dual awareness through many brief touches across the day rather than long sittings.
   Non-Dual Awareness, Made Practical
4. 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
5. The raisin exercise and mini-meal meditation
   Eat a single small food item (a raisin, a chocolate, a nut) with complete meditative attention as a regular practice.
   Mindful Eating, Made Practical
6. Informal everyday mindfulness
   Bring full attention to one routine daily activity — eating, washing dishes, walking — as a practice.
   Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
7. Expand: widen awareness back to body and situation
   After the breath anchor, expand attention outward to include the whole body and the surrounding moment.
   The Three-Minute Breathing Space
8. 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)
9. Arrive: openly notice what is happening right now
   Pause and acknowledge thoughts, feelings, and body sensations without editing.
   The Three-Minute Breathing Space
10. The return — working with a wandering mind
    Treat mind-wandering during the body scan as the practice, not a failure — the noticing and returning is the rep.
    Body Scan Meditation, Made Practical

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