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Reflective Practice involves mindful awareness of one's present experience – both while it is happening and after the experience. The purpose of reflective practice is a greater capacity for
- self-awareness
- self-regulation
- responding rather than reacting
- making healthier choices
- decreasing automaticity
- being more attuned to one's own needs and to the needs of others.
Reflective Practice has been shown to improve mental, emotional, and physical well-being as well as the capacity for empathy, compassion, and healthy relationships with others. Being reflective allows one to be more attuned to oneself, and therefore, more attuned to others.
The power of mindful awareness to promote physiological, psychological, and interpersonal well-being seems to emerge from this freedom it can offer from the prison of rigid identification with the habits of one's own mind. … Ronald Epstein (1999) wrote a powerful piece on the importance of mindfulness in the clinician. That contribution suggested that professionals need to engage in "mindful practice" in order to bring themselves more fully, with reflective presence, to the clinical relationship… Reflection is no longer a luxury, it may be a necessity for our survival. |
Daniel Siegel, the Mindful Brain |
For a complimentary copy of the Introduction to Simply Being: a reflective practice guide for helping professionals, click here.
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