Exercise 5: Mindfulness Cues
In this exercise you focus your attention on your breathing whenever a specific environmental
cue occurs. For example, whenever you hear the phone ring, you promptly bring your
attention into the present moment and stay focused on your breath.
Simply choose a cue that works for you. Perhaps you will choose to become mindful
every time you look in the mirror. Perhaps it will be every time your hands touch
each other. Perhaps it will be every time you hear a bird.
Mindfulness cues are an excellent mindfulness technique that are designed to snap
you out of the unconscious autopilot state of mind, and bring you back into the present
moment.