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		<title>Mindfulness, DBT, extreme emotions, and doing what works:</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the DBT mindfulness skills includes being effective: Doing what works. Learning how to sit for long periods of time and focus on one thing, such as your breath, can have quite an impact on quieting the mind. However, sitting for long periods of time can be rather difficult for people who are learning [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.bostondbtgroups.com/2012/02/01/mindfulness-dbt-extreme-emotions-and-doing-what-works/</link>
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		<title>Practical mindfulness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In graduate school, I took a class on mindfulness. I did not like it. I had to sit for an hour at the beginning of each class and focus on my breath. My butt hurt. My back hurt. We did not have chairs. We were expected to notice the pain and return to the breath. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.bostondbtgroups.com/2012/01/18/practical-mindfulness/</link>
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		<title>Emotional sensitivity: Elephants without a skin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some people are emotionally sensitive. They readily pick up on the emotions that others experience, have a high emotional “radar”, and they notice emotional “tones” or changes while interacting with others. Being alert to changes in emotional intensity may be a way for people to predict emotional outbursts- and thus stay away from threatening or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.bostondbtgroups.com/2012/01/05/emotional-sensitivity-elephants-without-a-skin/</link>
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		<title>Mindfulness for the holiday season: Christmas and the New Year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[December is a time of year in which our sensations can be easily bombarded. It’s easy to get stressed about Christmas shopping, overcrowded malls, travel plans, holiday parties, familial obligations, and in some cases, snowstorms.  The practice of being mindful is the intentional practice of focusing attention on one thing. Focused attention calms and settles [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.bostondbtgroups.com/2011/12/15/mindfulness-for-the-holiday-season-christmas-and-the-new-year/</link>
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		<title>Are you in touch with your true cartoons?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In DBT, primary emotions are emotions that people have about a situation or event. Secondary emotions are emotional reactions to emotions. Figuring out which is which may be helpful for people that have a lot of trouble sorting out what they feel, identifying what causes feelings, and knowing how to make use of feelings. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.bostondbtgroups.com/2011/12/12/are-you-in-touch-with-your-true-cartoons/</link>
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		<title>How to track elephantine-sized emotions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Last week, I posted a blog about tracking behavior change. One way in which I get clients to assess progress, notice changes, or pay better attention to their feelings is to get them to notice and track emotions. Emotions can be intense. They can be not-very-intense but-still-stressful because they last over time. Often people [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.bostondbtgroups.com/2011/12/07/how-to-track-elephantine-sized-emotions/</link>
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		<title>On the existence of cartoon elephants</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last September (2010) and early this year (January, 2011) I posted a blog about my cartoon elephant book project: The emotion phobic user’s guide to handling cartoon elephants. I even completed an interview about it for Psych Central: http://bit.ly/98hCbI Embarrassingly enough, I got started on the project…and then stopped. Other projects came up, I became distracted [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.bostondbtgroups.com/2011/12/01/on-the-existence-of-cartoon-elephants/</link>
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		<title>An exercise in mindfulness: Thanksgiving turkeys</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my groups, we spend time at the beginning doing some sort of exercise to slow down, pay attention, come into the room, and notice what is going on.  Some of these exercises are specifically directed at paying attention to the breath. When breathing is slowed, paced, and regulated, a person has a better tendency [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.bostondbtgroups.com/2011/11/21/an-exercise-in-mindfulness-thanksgiving-turkeys/</link>
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		<title>What is your emotion getting you to do?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Emotions have a very important role in our lives of getting us activated, moving, and solving problems. If we had no emotions, we wouldn’t know when we were missing out, miserable, in a bad situation, or needing to make some sort of change. Sometimes our emotions are working very hard to give us a strong [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.bostondbtgroups.com/2011/11/16/what-is-your-emotion-getting-you-to-do/</link>
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		<title>Slow down, get clear, and become organized</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Knowing what you want gives you the power to ask for it, to look for what you want, and to get what you want from the people who are willing and capable of giving it. Lots of things get in the way with our ability to be effective. Often intense anxiety keeps our focus on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.bostondbtgroups.com/2011/11/08/slow-down-get-clear-and-become-organized/</link>
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