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 The Mindful Path
Through Shyness
Workbook
 
Edited by:
Steve Flowers, MFT 
 
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This workbook and program has been adapted from the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Program and workbook created by Jon Kabat-Zinn for the stress Reduction Clinic at the Medical School of the University of Massachusetts in Worchester.
INTRODUCTION Welcome to the Mindful Path through Shyness Program (MPTS)!
 By  participating in this eight week program as you read your Mindful Path through Shyness  book, you can take major steps to free your self from shyness, social anxiety and avoidance. Know that each step you take on this path is a gift of love. This workbook is designed to support your learning and practice of mindfulness and to help you bring mindfulness into each moment of your life, particularly in interpersonal relationships. In here you will find homework assignments for each week of your program and a variety of different exercises and worksheets to help you along the way. The most important element of this program is the daily formal meditation practices that you are assigned each week. If you would like to record your own audio guidance for each of these  practices you may use the instructions in your book, The Mindful Path Through Shyness, or, if you prefer, guided meditation practices are provided for you at a nominal cost at www.mindfullivingprograms.com in the store. Each week there are formal mindfulness  practices (which involve doing the guided meditations on the audio files or disc’s); informal  practices which assist you in integrating mindfulness into the days and moments of your life; reading assignments, and in some weeks, written exercises and worksheets. Home practice work-sheets for each week are designed to help you develop and grow in your meditation  practice. You will find a sample of a completed home practice work-sheet for week one. In the last few weeks of the MPTS program and in the months following your program you will have an opportunity to practice interpersonal mindfulness with others at www.mindfullivingprograms.com. Practicing with others in this way could significantly contribute to your healing path. Finally, additional readings in the workbook will help you  better understand mindfulness and how to make it the warp and weave of your life. Please do the daily practices! Like any exercise, these practices can only benefit you on this journey if you create a discipline to do them. If you make this practice a priority in your life it will become a way of life for you. Be patient but persevere. Remember the important teaching of “puppy training.” You will need to begin again and again and do your best to practice non-judging and non-striving. Even though you may fail many times, don’t beat up your puppy mind. It will learn to be present if you treat it with compassion and patience. Find a time and a place you can do this practice each day. If at all possible, doing these practices at the same time and place will contribute to the persistence of your effort. You will find that the MPTS program is different than most other approaches to working with shyness. That is because this program is based on mindfulness and experiential learning rather than learned techniques. The intention of this program is to grow in mindfulness and to bring your moment to moment awareness to bear in facing and working through the places and circumstances that scare you. This is a little like bringing light into dark places – give yourself a little time to get your light shining brightly.
 
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WEEK ONE

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