



A discussion about how they might have missed things in their lives because they weren’t paying attention can be helpful. But in the end, they’ve got to see how it’s applicable to their lives. You can share your own experiences with practicing. You can talk about the pros and cons of practicing mindfulness. So in order to sell group members on the benefits of mindfulness, you can present research in limited forms. Mindfulness is about being in the moment. And in fact, most of the time when group members are new to practicing mindfulness, they are quite far from being able to relax and thus would need to be present with whatever existed for them in the moment. It’s important to sell group members and patients on how important the practice of mindfulness is, the need to be able to understand the difference between the practice of mindfulness and guided imagery or relaxation because while mindfulness might involve those things, it doesn’t have to. It is the foundation of learning of all of the other skills which are taught in group. Mindfulness plays an important role in DBT. Mindfulness and the three states of mind.
