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3. Practicing Mindfulness and Feedback
Mindfulness was introduced using the well documented “Raisin
Experiment” (See Segal et al, 2002).
A small chocolate mini egg was used on this occasion instead of a
raisin, due to lack of availability of raisins. The basic idea was that an
individual egg was placed in the palm of each member’s hand and
they would imagine they had never seen one before and get to know
it as an entirely new experience, using each of their five senses and
giving it their full concentration. This is always a fun way to give
people an actual experience of focusing their full attention on an
object, in the present moment, and experiencing what can happen
when we let go of preconceptions about reality and make contact
with old familiar realities in a new, fresh way.
An important component of mindfulness training is the opportunity
for each group member to reflect on whatever experience they had
whilst engaged in any given exercise. Feedback was encouraged, and
whatever happened for someone (there was no such thing as a ‘good’
or (