Table 2 Content of MBSR programme per session
Theme of session | Meditation exercise | Didactic teaching | Homework |
|---|---|---|---|
1. Automatic pilot | - Bodyscan | - Intention of participating | - Bodyscan |
- Raisin exercise | - Eating one meal mindfully | ||
| Â | - Attention for routine activity | ||
2. Mindfulness of the breath | - Bodyscan | - Imagery exercise to demonstrate relationship between thoughtsand feelings | - Bodyscan |
- Sitting mediation with focus on breath | - Attention for breath | ||
| Â | - Awareness of pleasant events | ||
- Attention for routine activity | |||
3. Observing limits | - Yoga while lying down | - Seeing exercise to demonstrate difference between observation and interpretation | - Bodyscan or yoga |
- 3-min breathing space | - Sitting meditation | ||
- Awareness of unpleasant events | |||
- 3-min breathing space | |||
4. Opening up to distress | - Sitting mediation with focus on breath, body and sound | - Interrelatedness of feelings, thoughts and bodily sensations | - Bodyscan or yoga |
- Sitting meditation | |||
- 3-min breathing space | - Psychoeducation about grief | - Awareness of stress reactions | |
- 3-min breathing space | |||
5. Responding to distress | - Sitting mediation with focus on breath, body, sound, thoughts, difficulty | - Reacting versus responding | - Meditation by choice |
- Coping with grief | - Awareness of reaction in difficult situation | ||
- Walking meditation | - Awareness of communication difficulties | ||
- 3-min breathing space | - 3-min breathing space | ||
6. Mindful communication | - Yoga in standing position | - Mindful communication exercise about effect of lung cancer with their own partner | - Sitting meditation or yoga |
- 3-min breathing space | - Awareness of communication | ||
| Â | - 3-min breathing space during stress | ||
Silent day | - Varying meditation exercises | Â | Â |
- Silent lunch and tea break | |||
7. Taking care of yourself | - Sitting meditation ending in choiceless awareness | - Exercise on taking care of yourself by examining how to improve balance in life | - Meditation without CD |
| Â | - Yoga or walking meditation | Â | - Reflect on training |
| Â | - 3-min breathing space | Â | Â |
8. The rest of your life | - Bodyscan | - Reflection on training | - Further sources of information |
- Short sitting meditation | - Maintaining practice |