Adult Pleasant Events Schedule

For the next week, do 1 thing every day from this list of 176 activities. Notice which activities you gravitate towards, and notice how incorporating these events into your daily life affects your mood, relationships, and thoughts

Leaves on a Stream

This is a cognitive defusion exercise that allows clients to practice mindfulness and acceptance of their thoughts and feelings.

Container Exercise

This imagery is helpful for temporarily containing difficult emotions and thoughts so one can function better in daily life.

Progressive Muscle Relaxation

Progressive Muscle Relaxation is an effective way to release pent-up stress and tension that the body is holding, perhaps without you even realizing that it’s there. It is a way to become more mindful of when the body is building tension.

Safe/Calm Space Guided Imagery

Media is a major stressor. This script (that reads like an exercise) helps its readers and listeners to engage more consciously with media. It is a mindfulness practice different than formal meditations. However, it offers us deeper insights into the way we engage with technology.

Mindful Media

Media is a major stressor. This script (that reads like an exercise) helps its readers and listeners to engage more consciously with media. It is a mindfulness practice different than formal meditations. However, it offers us deeper insights into the way we engage with technology.

Body Scan

Mindfully notice sensations in each part of the body, going through them one by one. Practice non-judgment and returning from thoughts to the direct experience of the body.

Loving Kindness Practice

This loving kindness practice involves silently repeating phrases that offer good qualities to oneself and to others.

Giving Yourself Compassion for a Difficult Situation

Sometimes when clients go through difficult times, it activates their habits of self-judgment. This guided meditation helps one to nurture compassion for oneself in regards to a difficult situation.

Functions of Emotions

Despite what we’re often told, happiness is not the default emotion for humans. The reality is that we need to experience all of our emotions; they each have a purpose. Our emotions provide us information that logic alone cannot give us.