Mindful Sentence Completion Intervention

Mindfulness Life Coach Practitioner Workbook

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 Mindful Sentence Completion Intervention
NOTES ON THIS INTERVENTION:

A key to making this mindful psychology practice effective is to limit the amount of time spent in the activity. We
recommend spending no more than three (3) minutes each morning engaged in this sentence completion exercise. Also,
don't analyze your thoughts as you're writing - just write quickly and from a place of openness to whatever comes out.

Writing sentence stem completions quickly allows you to bypass your conscious critical mind and rely more on the
answers already contained in your subconscious.

GENERAL UNDERSTANDING:

The Sentence Completion intervention begins with incomplete sentences "the stem" and then has you complete the stem
with (3-4) three or four different endings. The only condition being that each ending grammatically completes the stem
and forms a complete sentence.

Stem Example
If I were 10% more mindfully aware ...

Stem Completion Example

If I were 10% more mindfully aware I'd deepen my relationship with myself and others.

DIRECTIONS
This intervention is split into three blocks of four days each. Each morning over the next 12 days write 3-4
completions for all three sentence stems within that block.

At the end of each four day block, and prior to starting the next block, reread your written responses and
complete the following sentence stem with three or four additional responses.

"If even some of the responses I wrote during this 4-day block of time are accurate, it would serve me
well to...
Block 1 (Days 1-4)
Day 1:

"If I were 10% more mindfully aware. . .

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"If I express myself more authenticity . . .

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"If I practice listening to my inner wisdom . . .

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Day 2:

"If I were 10% more mindfully aware . . .

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"If I express myself more authenticity . . .

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"If I practice listening to my inner wisdom . . .

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Day 3:

"If I were 10% more mindfully aware . . .

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"If I express myself more authenticity . . .

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"If I practice listening to my inner wisdom . . .

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Day 4:

"If I were 10% more mindfully aware . . .

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"If I express myself more authenticity . . .

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"If I practice listening to my inner wisdom . . .

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Block 1 - Reflection Sentence Prompt
Pause and reread your written sentence stem responses from block #1. Then complete the following sentence stem with
three or four additional responses.

"If even some of the responses I wrote during this 4-day block of time are accurate, it would serve me well to...

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Based on the Reflection Sentence Prompt the following are actions that make sense for me to take.
Block 2 (Days 5-8)

Day 5:

"By giving myself "permission to be human" . . .

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"By pausing to focus on my breath . . .

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"By focusing 10% more attention to my self-care needs . . .

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Day 6:

"By giving myself "permission to be human" . . .

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"By pausing to focus on my breath . . .

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"By focusing 10% more attention to my self-care needs . . .

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Day 7:

"By giving myself "permission to be human" . . .

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"By pausing to focus on my breath . . .

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"By focusing 10% more attention to my self-care needs . . .

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Day 8:

"By giving myself "permission to be human" . . .

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"By pausing to focus on my breath . . .

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"By focusing 10% more attention to my self-care needs . . .

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Block 2 - Reflection Sentence Prompt
Pause and reread your written sentence stem responses from block #2. Then complete the following sentence stem with
three or four additional responses.

"If even some of the responses I wrote during this 4-day block of time are accurate, it would serve me
well to...

1.
2.
3.
4.

Based on the Reflection Sentence Prompt the following actions make sense for me to take.
Block 3 (Days 9-12)
Day 9:

"By being kinder to myself . . .

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"By behaving more kindly toward others . . .

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"fill in with your favorite"

By practicing the __________________________mindful exercise . . .

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Day 10:

"By being kinder to myself . . .

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"By behaving more kindly toward others . . .

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"fill in with your favorite"

By practicing the __________________________mindful exercise . . .

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Day 11:

"By being kinder to myself . . .

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"By behaving more kindly toward others . . .

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"fill in with your favorite"

By practicing the __________________________mindful exercise . . .

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Day 12:

"By being kinder to myself . . .

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"By behaving more kindly toward others . . .

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"fill in with your favorite"

By practicing the __________________________mindful exercise . . .

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Block 3 - Reflection Sentence Prompt
Pause and reread your written sentence stem responses from block #3. Then complete the following sentence stem with
three or four additional responses.

"If even some of the responses I wrote during this 4-day block of time are accurate, it would serve me
well to...

1.
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3.
4.

Based on the Reflection Sentence Prompt the following actions make sense for me to take.