Session 6

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Welcome back for another week of NF-Web. This week we will be covering Session 6 – Promoting positivity!

Now if you are anything like me, or the other people who participate in this group, it may be hard on even your best days to have positivity. Having NF and managing this chronic medical illness can make you feel anything but positive these days, however, positivity does not mean ignoring how you are actually feeling, it means making room for more than just one emotion. You can be happy and sad, joyous and frustrated. You are vast and you can feel it all. Why not make room for positivity? And the good news is…. you’ve been practicing these skills for weeks now through gratitude and appreciations. So, be ready because here comes the positivity!

Overall, the goals of this session are to:

• learn new ways of developing empathy towards ourselves and others
• further develop adaptive perspectives
• learn to identify our RR signals
• discuss physical activity for improving well-being and quality of life.
• Then, we will introduce the RR Loving Kindness Meditation that aims to develop empathy toward yourself and others.
• Next, we discuss how to further develop an adaptive perspective by comparing and contrasting optimism with pessimism.
• We will also identify signals that let us know we are in the RR and discuss physical activity.

As we have done in previous weeks, We will start the session with a review of the material we’ve learned so far. Pay attention because you will be quizzed at the end of today’s lesson!