SIT #323-2026 Mar 15 – SAIN Helps Keep Sain

 Lazy Sundays.  Today the DC was about SAIN.  This is a practice using a tool called SAIN.  Stop, Acknowledge / Accept, Investigate, Non-Identification.  This is a practice created by psychotherapist Michael Stone and it relates to how to deal with reactionary measures and emotions like anger and aggression.  This practice walks you through the steps allowing you to control what may seem like an uncontrollable situation.  By first stopping what is happening and then acknowledging and accepting the feelings you are feeling as OK and human to have.  Then Investigating the impact of those feelings on the body and environment; such as tight shoulders or flushed face, then accepting those too.  Then identifying this as something that doesn’t need identifying.  Giving it a generic name which takes away it’s power and makes it so much easier to move along from.  The DT today was all about growing connections with all those around you and close to you and those that you might have never met.  The practice makes you think about people which is the first step of growing any connection.  The minute you think about them then you are already starting that connection.  The rest of the practice grows those connections from the mat.  The DJ today was about the constraints we all feel that can stifle our creativity and how to get over those hurdles; freeing you creativity in the process.