In this guided experiment, you'll begin learning and practicing the foundational skills of mindfulness: the ability to wake up from autopilot and connect more fully with your life, moment by moment.

While aligning your behavior with your core values is essential to building a meaningful life, mindfulness helps you see clearly where you are and how you're moving through each moment, like turning on a light inside the lighthouse of awareness.

Through this practice, you will:

• Strengthen your ability to observe the present moment without judgment

• Learn to focus and redirect attention (the "spotlight" of awareness)

• Explore your five senses, touch, sight, sound, smell, and taste, with openness and curiosity

• Increase emotion regulation, cognitive flexibility, and self-awareness

• Deepen connection with yourself and others

This experiment introduces the "Observe" skill from Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and sets the foundation for more advanced mindfulness practices in upcoming episodes.

As you practice illuminating your experience with awareness, you'll begin to notice what truly matters, and how to live more intentionally in alignment with your values, one moment at a time.

Welcome to the experiment.

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In this guided experiment, you'll learn a surprisingly powerful method that's been shown to help people reduce symptoms of depression, anxiety, substance use, insomnia, and more, by focusing on one simple idea:

Pleasure through measurement.

You'll discover how to use daily monitoring (sometimes called a daily diary or tracking log) to increase awareness, motivation, and accountability for your values-based S.M.A.R.T. goals, the ones that truly matter to you.

Through this experiment, you'll:

Create your own daily tracking sheet ("lab notebook" style)

Learn how to monitor meaningful behavior change

Identify patterns that move you toward or away from your values

Strengthen consistency, satisfaction, and long-term well-being

This practice is at the heart of what helps many people move from insight into real, measurable change. By tracking what matters, we begin to see, and feel, our progress.

Welcome to the experiment.

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In this experiment, you'll take the values and insights from your previous work and begin turning them into real, lived change. You'll learn the difference between values (your ongoing direction) and goals (specific destinations along the way). Then you'll create one clear, realistic, meaningful S.M.A.R.T. goal designed to help close a specific gap between how you want to live and how you're currently living.

This experiment supports you in taking the first actionable step toward a more honest, connected, and values-aligned life, one small commitment at a time.

Welcome to the experiment.

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