The goal of this session  is to clarify the relationship between mindfulness and automaticity. This session is included in the beginning of the training because most problems that people experience involve automatic patterns or habits. Without becoming aware of these patterns, change is difficult if not impossible. Paying mindful attention to automatic reactions and routine patterns of thinking and behavior is a powerful way to decrease their effect. Awareness of automatic patterns creates room to choose other behaviour than the automatic behavior. You will experience the automatic nature of your thoughts, which in turn automatically cause emotions to emerge.