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Unless we are practicing mindfulness, we rarely observe our inner dialogue with any detachment and ponder its validity, especially when it concerns our thoughts and beliefs about ourselves. You can get a closer look at this process on a day-to-day level by being mindful of your own inner dialogue and beliefs and how they affect what you wind up doing in certain situations. Consequently, we get stuck and feel we can’t get beyond them. Then, too often, we forget that we have created these boundaries ourselves. In this way, we effectively make our own limits by our own thought processes. Our doubts about our own abilities become self-fulfilling prophecies. When self-confidence becomes eroded, it just makes it harder to solve any other problems that come along. Such experiences can lead to feelings of frustration, inadequacy, and insecurity. When we get stuck, there is a tendency to make more problems and to make them worse. Rather than penetrating through problems to the point where solutions are reached. Our crises to make faulty decisions and choices. We will have a tendency to get stuck in our problems. Our lack of awareness of the system as a whole will often prevent us from seeing new options. Will usually be thwarted by our own prejudices and preconceptions. If we don’t, our attempts to identify and solve our problems. That we may have to expand beyond our habitual ways of seeing and thinking and acting in order to solve or resolve certain kinds of problems. We will never be able to come to a satisfactory solution of the problem because a key domain will always be missing, the domain of the whole. This is called taking a “systems view.” If we do not identify the system correctly in its entirety. Discerning the relationship between the various isolated parts of the problem and the problem as a whole. This approach involves asking ourselves what the extent of the problem is. That we may need to take a broader view of certain problems if we hope to solve them.

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You are not seeing the full domain of the problem. All the while you are putting your energy in the wrong place. As a consequence, you may wind up blaming yourself for being stupid or getting angry at the problem and proclaiming it impossible or foolish. You will never find a satisfactory solution to this problem. Because of the automatic way in which you perceive things and think about them. If you isolate the nine dots by themselves as the domain of the problem. Recognizing that the field of the problem is the whole surface that contains the dots. Rather than seeing the dots in the context of the paper. But the “normal” tendency is to see the nine-dot square pattern as the field of the problem. The problem as stated does not prevent you from going outside the dots. That the solution lies in extending the lines you draw beyond the imaginary square that the dots make. There is usually an “aha!” experience at the moment of discovery. Especially after you have been struggling with it for a while. When you see or discover for yourself the solution to this problem. When all of a sudden they “see” the solution when a volunteer draws it on the blackboard. We ask all those people who do not know the answer to watch carefully what their reaction is. When we go over it in class the following week. The more solutions you try that don’t work. At this point, the mind can experience distress. We are to connect up all the dots by making four straight lines without lifting your pencil. You are to connect up all the dots by making four straight lines without lifting your pencil. The 9-dots exercise invites us to practice, Nonjudging, Patience, and a Beginners Mind.

9-Dots Exercise by Jon Kabat-Zinn Mindfulness Training by Jon Kabat-Zinn The 9-Dots Exercise Mindfulness Training

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