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Any mindfulness technique that is not a Standard Unified Mindfulness technique. Can be classified in the ULTRA Grid by comparing it with UM Standard Techniques and themes. From the perspective of UM, meditation techniques that aren’t Standard can include:
- Techniques that can be used repeatedly or in many situations that are already in common use and were designed using UM concepts or technical terms. For instance, See Hear Feel Drive, Note General Level of X, the POP analysis for See In (Person Object Place), or Naming Feel In sensations (Anger, Fear, Sadness, etc.)
- Warm-Ups or Steps related to Standard Techniques such as Just Note New/Gone for SHF Now, Note Mind Activity for Auto Think, or Sensitizing Exercises such as a Tour of the Senses or exploring the Zoom Noting Option in Feel, etc.
- Custom Techniques any individual may design using UM methods (e.g., intentionally including CC&E skill development) for repeated use in specific settings or with a certain audience or client. For instance, you’re working with athletes doing a specific sport, so you tailor techniques to fit that sport. Or, you’re working with a population struggling with a specific health challenge, like diabetes, so you tailor techniques to fit that population. Or you’re working with a client around an ongoing behavior change like improving their diet.
- Custom Techniques that may be designed for clients on the spot and may not be transferable for general or ongoing use. For instance, your client has a unique window come up—their hands get very vivid and seem to expand to take up a lot of space—so you design the Expanding Hands technique for them, on the fly, to work with the experience which may or may not come up again.
- Outside Techniques that do not use UM design methods and have been developed in other approaches such as a T.M. mantra, U Ba Khin/MBSR style body sweeping, Christian contemplative prayer, Wim Hoff method, etc.
- Mindfulness Techniques that have been mixed with other healing modalities. For instance, MBCT (Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy) is not just a mindfulness technique; it includes other elements that aren’t related to mindfulness practice. In these cases it’s critical to tease apart what is mindfulness meditation and what is not. If you’re not a licensed therapist, you don’t offer MBCT in a professional setting. Those boundaries must be clearly maintained. Also, to prevent confusion and other complications (for instance, liability), if you are a cross-discipline trainer, you need to clearly explain to clients what aspect of what you’re teaching is mindfulness and what is not.
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