Identify the stimuli rather than the appraisal

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Question: The assignment is to pause and write about a current moment in your life, the ordinary moment that is happening right now.

This is an unusual, vague assignment, but it can be quite powerful and productive.

Since mindfulness is the practice of being in the present moment, the idea is to pause and "open" to the moments of your life without looking for anything particular and see what reveals itself to you. Therefore, when you write about your experience, the emphasis is on a single moment that you describe in detail. You need not give the backstory or analyze the situation. Weird, huh? Because that's not the way, we usually think about things.

In this assignment, we are trying to identify the stimuli rather than the appraisal to use Ekman's Model. This detail will help you write your speeches and select your examples in the application journals. There will be plenty of opportunities to reflect on and analyze the application journals.

Our momentary experience usually shows up as:

a physical sensation (my heart was pounding)
a feeling (I was irritated)
a single thought (I don't think he likes me)
an observation from our five senses (the sky was so blue, I heard the kettle whistling, I felt the sun on my cheek, it tasted spicy, I could smell the bread baking).
Your job is not to explain your experience but to describe it.

Throughout this course, please "open" to as many moments of your life as possible in the way described above. In your posts, write down anything you catch yourself noticing that you don't think you would have noticed before you began practicing mindfulness in this way:

a beautiful purple and orange sunset
fresh snow on the trees
your impulse to be angry at the person who just cut you off
an internal judgment of yourself or someone else, etc

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