What It Captures
The tool can capture optional direct sensory observations, optional mind comments, completion state, and practitioner observations.
Mindfulness of The Hand
Mindfulness of The Hand is an ACT object-focused mindfulness exercise for therapists, trainers, and educators. It helps a client attend to observable details of one hand while noticing judgments, predictions, and distractions as mind comments.
Explore the guided hand-observation flow with sample reflections, then review the descriptive practice summary.
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Use this background section to understand when the tool fits, how practitioners use it, and what to consider before sharing it with clients.
Important Limitation
The tool does not score mindfulness, infer fusion or defusion, substitute another object, or create a general meditation library.
Does the client have to type during the exercise?
No. Typing is optional because the core task is attention practice.
Can the practitioner change the object from the hand to something else?
No. The hand is the fixed attention anchor for this tool.
What does the review show?
The review shows completion state and any optional reflections, separating observed details from mind comments when both are entered.