Discussion Questions
Create your own Wheel of Awareness to practice the first component of mindfulness: understanding your own mind.
The authors encourage us to acknowledge our feelings, while at the same time separating them from who we are. Write out a list of some of the feelings you experienced today.
Many fears stem from a loss of control. How might the Wheel of Awareness help with that?
Practice having a conversation with a child you know, going through the SIFT acronym. Describe how it went (see example on p. 110).
From the last pages of the chapter, read and think through “Integrating Ourselves: Looking at Our Own Wheel of Awareness.” You can change the questions to fit your circumstances. Write about how your state of mind changed as you went through the exercise.