Standing at the Conveyor Belt: Ideas from Marsha Linehan

Marsha Linehan, Ph.D., ABPP, is a professor at the University of Washington. She has written extensively about mindfulness, a mental health strategy that is gaining increasing recognition among clinicians as well as laypersons. In an entry on the website for her training organization (Behavioral Tech), she discusses an analogy comparing our awareness and response to our feelings to standing at a conveyor belt. I cannot cut and paste her work here due to copyright laws, but you can find this fascinating essay here:

http://behavioraltech.org/resources/mindfulness_exercises.cfm?utm_source=Announcing+the+Linehan+Institute+Lectures&utm_campaign=March+31%2C+2014+suicide+eNews&utm_medium=email

At the top of this page, you will find links to three essays. All are worth reading, but the one I’m referring to is entitled, “Watching Your Mind.” The three essays appear to rotate on this page. If the one that comes up on this page is not “Watching Your Mind,” click on that title to find it. The other two essays are “Distraction” and “Participate in Laugh Club.”

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