Introduction to Mindfulness - Dean Amory

Participant 4
How was the course helpful to you in your recovery?
Not Mindfulness as a whole but the meditation and yoga and the
different techniques helped. I don’t think I got what the whole
Mindfulness thing was.
How could the course have been more helpful to you?
It would be great if you could get an addict to teach it… someone
from where they’re from (the participants). Frank was inspirational,
but you need someone more like them. Mindfulness seems a bit farfetched.
It seemed like the people who were doing it were so far
ahead and they were just trying to dumb it down for us… they could
have talked more about how they started, their own difficulties in
doing it and what helped.
If you got people who weren’t that long clean they might be more
willing to open up, because myself, I have my own thing, I can be set
in my own ways.
People might be more susceptible earlier on. There’s a lot done in
counselling and addiction, people have heard this all before.
What stage of recovery do you think the course should be offered at?
It’s hard to say – it’s a bit of a paradox. You need to mix it up.
Did you find the course compatible with the 12 steps?
Yeah, there’s a lot that’s similar… the only thing that’s missing would
be talking about a faith
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