I want you to either find a comfortable
place to sit down or to lie down while
we do this mindfulness activity. So where
do you think you'd be most uncomfortable?
In your bed or in your chair?
In my bed.
In your bed? Okay, well, let's go. Let's do it.
I'm Jill West and I'm a pediatric
psychologist.
Pediatric psychologists focus specifically on working with children who have chronic, recurrent or
significant medical conditions. We know
that when kids are going through
something like that, it can have an
impact on their emotional and behavioral
functioning. We want to make sure that
we're taking care of the whole child.
Focus on how this Starburst feels. And as you
do that,
focus on how that Starburst sounds...
Doing things like using active behavioral and
cognitive coping strategies to get
through something, it's giving them, um, you
know a new set of tools that they can
use to get through the difficult situation.
Cherries. So now you're focusing
on the way that it smells, so you brought
in a new sense. That's called being
mindful. It's when you're using all of
your senses to pay very, very close
attention to something specific.
While you were doing that, were you paying
attention to hurting?
Nope. You were not paying attention to hurting because what were you
paying attention to instead?
My Starbursts.
Your Starbursts!
It's very fulfilling when
you can see that a patient has learned a
skill and they're gonna be able to use
it to help themselves.
