1/ If you like the idea of mindfulness but lack patience for either the process or subculture, you may like Focusing http://www.focusing.org/sixsteps.html
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2/ Focusing is a 1970s model developed by Eugene Gendlin. I taught myself and practiced and got reasonably good. See link in 1/ for basics
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3/ It's a 6-step technique for interrogating your emotional state. Helps refine your emotional self-awareness. Like seeing more colors.
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4/ Nice thing about it is, you can *choose* a particular stuck problem/situation to probe, and figure out what you feel about it.
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4/ If you combine it with a superstructure process like SPAR (situation, problem, action, result) you can map your active emotional gamut
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5/ Use Focusing to figure out what you feel about a situation with precision. Like "this learning curve stuckness is making me frustrated"
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6/ Then use length of the corresponding analysis (like pages it takes to SPAR out a situation) as proxy for time spent in that emotion state
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7/ Do this for every stuck situation in turn and you can draw pie chart of your emotional state. Here's one of minepic.twitter.com/JhkrNFmlJu
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8/ Particularly useful if you're not very emotional OR an overly/messily emotional person. A prosthetic to help imitate EQ geniuses
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9/ When I learned method ~15y ago, it was very useful. Now I only use it occasionally, but it works ok even w/o disciplined practice
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10/ Think of it as applied mindfulness cheat sheet for dummies. This is to mindfulness as Notepad is to LaTeX. Can serve as entry drug too
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