Reflection during Mindfulness - A Personal Account

This article is a personal account of how mindfulness helped in coping with anxiety, depression, and other issues. The author shares their experience of attending mindfulness sessions and how it helped them in overcoming their difficulties. The article also discusses the benefits of mindfulness meditation and its impact on mental health. It includes a bibliography of relevant research studies on the topic.

Running head: REFLECTION DURING MINDFULNESS
Reflection during Mindfulness
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author note

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I feel I need to start from the beginning with the accident I met at my workplace few
years ago. I met with severe accident wherein my hands went into spindle moulder in the office
and there were minor kind of injuries of badly cut fingers along with other problems that soon
followed. Furthermore, when I joined my work again I faced different anxiety and depression
issues and I started taking sleeping pills and antidepressants. I had three six months spell in the
vocational rehabilitation and I had to resign when the things started getting worse.
It went in such a manner until 2016 when I started taking sessions from CBT at the health
care centre. The CBT had made a huge difference however; the ten sessions were not enough and
it was difficult for me to cope up with such issues and my mood went sinking down.
Furthermore, in the early 2017, I got someone in Munster in Ireland for CBT. I told the person
that CBT did not help me that much in relieving my stress and then he suggested that I should
consider Mindfulness.
The person asked me to Google Mindfulness and I thought it was ok to ring for such
assessment. Furthermore, I rang for the assessment and went to mount but then I thought I would
return home if the mindfulness did not work. I would be taking more than 350 antidepressants to
kill myself and this will be helpful to make the individuals understand that I had tried everything
and nothing worked and in this manner I went for the mindfulness session. The first session
helped me in with counseling and psychotherapeutic setting.
In my life, I never interacted with so many individuals and I was uncomfortable to
interact with them. I tried to block those individuals by sitting out of the entire group and
blocking others with pillar. In the second session, the counselor helped in creating mindful
setting, however; I tried to do all my homework in order to prove myself that I tried my best but

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everything failed. During the third and fourth session, I tried to understand how mindfulness
works. Part way through the sessions, I tried to understand those mindfulness sessions was the
turning point and while on my way to home I thought that mindfulness was not barmy. I felt
mindfulness may work for me and I will not be dead in the next six or seven weeks. I tried to
read the different handouts and I felt how wrong I was in thinking about mindfulness. The things
fell into place and I was receiving a lot from mindfulness, however in the later sessions of
mindfulness there were different problems that occurred. I tried to ask for help at best of times
and not during the sessions. I hated myself again as I was behaving as I used to previously. I felt
depressed and suicidal in nature.
However, I tried to keep that feeling to myself as I felt mindfulness would work and I just
avoided it whenever I could. However, during the last session of mindfulness, I tried managing
myself and began sitting with other individuals. It took a lot of effort for me however; I just
wanted to be the part of the specific group. I wanted myself to belong to the group for once even
if it was only for one session. The course completed and when I left the course and I found new
problems but I was not serious that killing me was the solution and I felt mindfulness would help
me.
After a week, I went on summer holidays and I ended up with migraine pain on the way
back to our home. During this time, I tried to exercise and apply all the mindfulness exercises
that I have learnt in the sessions. The different exercises helped me in feeling pleasant and
returned home feeling ok as well. I tried following the activities that I have learnt in the session
and I did not have migraine anymore. I slowly tried to cope up with the different difficult
situations in my life and but there times when I could not find proper solution. There were times
when I could not find myself distressed and it had affected me intensely.

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Furthermore, after a few days, I got migraine pain again and felt that it would be gone,
however; it did not work out well. I finally tried to work through the session notes of the twelve
sessions. It took more than nine months to finish the tasks and it pleased me in an effective
manner. With the help of the mindfulness, I tried to act as the mindfulness volunteer in different
places and this provided me confidence to overcome different situations in the life. I tried to
reduce the different difficulties in my life have performed the mindfulness activities.
I tried to volunteer different programs in different organizations as this helped me in
overcoming different kind of issues faced by the different individuals. I tried to organize
different kind of health walks in such a manner that this helped me in coping up from different
situations in their life. I started organizing different trips with different individuals and this
helped me in overcoming my difficulties as well. I opened my own centre wherein all the
individuals were invited to my institution wherein I organized weekly meditation and this helped
me in reducing the different issues such as helped in decreasing stress.
I tried organizing different programs wherein this helped me in enhancing their ability to
deal with different issues in their lives. There were different individuals who had problems to
deal with recovery in such a manner that helped them in decreasing symptoms of depression in
different individuals. After the mindfulness, sessions that I had attended previously helped me in
understanding the difficulties of other individuals. There were different other issues of
individuals who were positively linked with different blood pressure issues and overweight and
obesity issues as well.
I kept different sessions on mindfulness activities that can be made performed by the
different individuals in such a manner that this will help them in overcoming such weaknesses n

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an effectual manner. When I took different learning experience of mindfulness during twelve
sessions and I tried understanding their issues by counseling them. There were different college
students who faced different kind of depressive activities and other problems related to alcohol. I
tried counseling them in such a manner that has helped the students to overcome such issues by
meditating and involving themselves into different activities. When I took my first session as I
suffered from anxiety, I felt that the alcohol problems are prevalent in nature and this can put
their lives to risk. I tried to focus more on the different strategies that can help them in
overcoming such issues and help them to succeed a positive life in an effectual manner.
I tried organizing sessions that is based on different techniques on meditation and
practices of mindfulness, as this will help the individuals to lead successful life. I invited
different guest lecturers in the institution as this helped me in understanding their difficulties and
resolved them with application of different other strategies in an effective manner. When I faced
difficulties in my life, I tried to focus more on the session notes as this helped me in developing
different strengths within myself and solve them in an effectual manner.
I tried to understand the different interactive sessions in such a manner that it helped me
in understanding my own difficulties. The mindfulness practices help in meditating the different
techniques and solved them accordingly. The counselor helped me in understanding the issues by
helping me to meditate in an effective manner. I meditated and did not like to continue the
session after two sessions, however; I tried to focus on the mindfulness sessions and tried to
explore the entire session in an effectual manner. The strategy has been used by me helped me in
continuing all the sessions of mindfulness and solves the different problems faced by me in an
effective manner.

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I tried to focus more on the different strategies by understanding the lecture notes and
solved the issues accordingly. The meditation program helped me in solving the issues and this
helped me in understanding the weaknesses that is suffered by me. The different sessions I have
conducted as this helped me in solving the issues of the college students along with issues of old
individuals who came to my institute with their different problems.
From the mindfulness sessions, I have understood that there can be different issues that
have to be faced by individuals in their entire life. The different processes and methods has to be
applied by them in such a manner that this will help them in overcoming such situations and lead
a happy and successful life.

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