It’s staying in the game, staying committed, recognizing that [training your brain] is a process over time, being mindful and bring compassion to our mindfulness practices.
Ty Mansfield
Thoughts often seem to pop up all on their own, which can feel discouraging when one is trying to overcome pornography. Mindfulness can help change that. In this episode, Creed and Crishelle talk again with Ty Mansfield about how to begin practicing mindfulness and using those new skills to think and act more intentionally.
In this episode:
- Being fully present with less judgement and more compassion takes practice.
- Start practicing mindfulness through guided meditations and reading more about it.
- Mindfulness increases our power to act more intentionally.
- We can learn to control our thoughts through practicing stillness.
Ty Mansfield, PhD, is a practicing marriage and family therapist and an adjunct instructor in Religious Education at Brigham Young University. Ty completed his undergraduate work in Asian Studies and has been actively practicing mindfulness for over ten years and is a certified mindfulness meditation teacher. Ty’s primary areas of specialization in therapy are healthy sexuality, including research and advanced training in addressing sexual addiction, betrayal trauma, infidelity, sexual abuse, sexual and gender identity conflicts, and sex therapy. Ty and his wife, Danielle, and their five children live in Spanish Fork, Utah.
Links
Mindfulness for Beginners: Reclaiming the Present Moment and Your Life
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