Happiness-Based Mindfulness Program

By Sara Spowart

This program is designed to help improve the lived experience of happiness in your everyday life. It contains six modules and incorporates key components of happiness and well-being in every module. These modules include practical tools that can be implemented in everyday life. Happiness here means a state of contentment and satisfaction regardless of one's situation. Happiness may be experienced as a temporary state, but aspects that make-up happiness, like sense of purpose, connection, meaning, and working towards a higher purpose, are more stableand long- lasting.

 

The 6 modules include recurring key components. These include: 1) understanding your identity structure andassessing what you want it to be instead of accepting already prescribed programs; 2) understanding any loops or patterns you may feel trapped in and how to get out; 3) an understanding of how we our generators of emotion andhow to take our power back and the energy we want to generate; 4) bringing awareness to our levels of happiness on a regular basis as a method to increase well- being; 5) accountability and responsibility for your lived experience of happiness and what you would like to change or accept; 6) bringing more love and kindness into your life as a method to increase your happiness.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sara Spowart
• Release date: Oct 15, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215236697

Book preview

Happiness-Based Mindfulness Program (HBMP)

Created by Sara Spowart

Ph.D., LMFT, DMFT(c)., MPA, RYT, CC.Ht

Copyright © 2023 by Sara Spowart All rights reserved.

No portion of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher or author, except as permitted by U.S. copyright law.

Contents

Overview................................................1

Resources For This Course..................................3

Week 1: Trapped in Patterns and Loops........................9

Week 2: Your Identity Structure.............................17

Week 3: Become Your Own Generator.......................26

Week 4: Turning Painful Things into Strengths or Positives.......36

Week 5: Taking Responsibility for Your Own Happiness.........43

Week 6: Living and Loving Our Life and Ourselves on Purpose....49

For Instructors of The Happiness-Based Mindfulness Program:....56

Overview

This program is designed to help improve the lived experience of happiness in your everyday life. It contains six modules and incorporates key components of happiness and well-being in every module. These modules include practical tools that can be implemented in everyday life. Happiness here means a state of contentment and satisfaction regardless of one’s situation. Happiness may be experienced as a temporary state, but aspects that make-up happiness, like sense of purpose, connection, meaning, and working towards a higher purpose, are more stable and long- lasting.

The 6 modules include recurring key components. These include: 1) understanding your identity structure and assessing what you want it to be instead of accepting already prescribed programs; 2) understanding any loops or patterns you may feel trapped in and how to get out; 3) an understanding of how we our generators of emotion and how to take our power back and the energy we want to generate; 4) bringing awareness to our levels of happiness on a regular basis as a method to increase well- being; 5) accountability and responsibility for your lived experience of happiness