Mindful qualities

Present-time awareness, acceptance, and disentangling from your thoughts


“The feeling that any task is a nuisance will soon disappear if it is done in mindfulness.” – Thích Nhat Hanh


We spend a lot of our time in the past, caught in regret about past failures or in the future, worrying about possible future failures or things that we would sooner be doing; rather than in the present, where we are doing what shapes our lives. In order to be a good self-regulated learner, you need to be aware of your thoughts, feelings and behavioural tendencies towards your learning so you can loosen the control that thoughts and feelings have over your behaviour and get out of automatic ways of responding that lead you away from your learning goals.

Mindfulness is a practice that allows you to develop present-time awareness of thoughts and feelings, and accept those thoughts and feelings as natural products of your mind that you can observe and let pass without becoming entangled, distracted and off track. Through the module, you will work on activities that will help you to develop these essential qualities.

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Growth & Goals: a course-integrated module to better equip students with learning skills Copyright © by Alison Flynn; Elizabeth Campbell Brown; Emily O'Connor; Ellyssa Walsh; Fergal O'Hagan; Gisèle Richard; and Kevin Roy is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

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