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5 Dec 21

Meetings for the Week of 5 December 2021 (7 meetings this week)

5 December 2021 - - No Bobbe, Hatrick and James - 72 people

Bobbe has been in SMART for 10 years and is on the Board of Directors

Week 12 - Achieve Lifestyle Balance - part 3.

• Choice, Commitment = Success
• FEAR
• Fusion (attachment to thoughts)
• Excessive expectations
• Avoidance of discomfort
• Remoteness from values

Goals: Are your goals to big, too much too soon, do you have the necessary skills and resources, do you expect to do it perfectly? Mistakes are part of being human.

Reason-Giving (the mind is great at coming up with excuses) Excuses are just thoughts.

Fuse and Defuse: I cannot go for a run because I'm too tired? Really? Is that a fact?

6 Dec 2021 7:30-9AM - Hatrick / Kibou - 41 people

A very Curious meditation

Welcome our thoughts might be telling us. It's a way to get into the present moment.

• If they are clear and certain thoughts? DIBS tool?
• A demanding thought set - ABC tool?
• Hey lets do something bad - DISARM tool?

Share a 'Good News' story on Rescuing your day.

Sleep Meditations https://www.sonima.com/meditation/bedtime-meditation/ and Judson Brewer TED talk https://www.ted.com/talks/judson_brewer_a_simple_way_to_break_a_bad_habit?language=en

6 Dec 2021 9:30-11AM - No Annie51 - Donna Sped Music? and Rob52 - 37 people

Lots of zoom issues. This ended up being mostly a share meeting.

7 Dec 2021 8:30-10AM Annie51 - 55 people

This is a share meeting

Embrace the Suck

Why mindfulness is a superpower!

8 December 2021 10-11AM - Annie51 - 41 people

This is a weekly beginner meeting

She covered point four, live balance - Life balance wheel

On being overwhelmed - Ground by counting backwards
Name 5 things you can see in the room
Name 4 things you can feel
Name 3 things you can hear right now
Name 2 things you can smell or smells you like \\ Name 1 Good thing about yourself
Procrastination

• Universal and sometimes useful
• It can be a form of self sabotage
• Can be harmful
• Can be associated with trying to avoid strong emotions such as anxiety
• May signal that you have lingering ambivalence about recovery
• Can weaken your ability to achieve goals
• Can be addressed with a CBA (cost benefit analysis)

People are via the Quick Links the people list

9 December 2021 - 7:30-9PM - Mattahund and Jmac1964 - 69 people Topics

• Combating urges
• Complacency
• Back handed complements from F&F

10 December 2021 - 9:30-11AM General meeting - Debbie L? and Donna Sped Music? - 71 people

“Rather than ‘break’ a habit, it is apparently far more likely that I ‘replace’ a habit. It might start with me identifying A HABIT of ACTION or THOUGHT that appears to limit me, and move to replace it with A HABIT that is more likely to empower and encourage me.” –Shug Mc Lister?