How could mindfulness be used to work with the withdrawn or difficult child? The following essay will explore how integrating mindfulness into psychotherapy practice can help reach withdrawn or difficult children; young people who have lost connection with themselves and with others. The mindfulness therapist attends to what the client is communicating here and now, inviting them to let themselves be and focus on a mind that needs to enter somewhere into the realm of felt senses . Entering the young person's world requires patience and careful attention to their emerging experiences; as happens in the therapy room. This specific type of attention will be discussed within three states of being; openness, observation and objectivity or triception (Siegal, 2010: 121). This triangle of awareness provides a stable foundation, a sort of viewing platform where we can monitor our internal experiences and adjust them accordingly, without judgment. The therapist's ability to self-regulate and attend to his or her own internal world in each moment serves to generate in the child a desire to do the same, a desire to be open and curious, observing the experiences of the moment as through the fine lens of a camera, objectively and clearly. Withdrawn or difficult people may be seen as having lost touch with their inner world and stuck in repetitive cycles of difficult behaviors and rigid thoughts. In this state, the young person is out of balance with their mind and body and their ability to make relational connections, the flow of positive energy is somehow blocked. "As it is a triangle not only of energy and information flow, but of well-being, triception is how we perceive our states......middle of paper... ...e in mind However, distancing ourselves from these thoughts while remaining aware of the sensations we experience can be a difficult balance. Seigal points out that "objectivity taken to the extreme has its drawbacks." It is important to mention here that this discernment, if misused, can become a form of dissociation, as some individuals will distance themselves from their own rich inner world. » Seigal 43%The practice of mindfulness meditation can be useful in encouraging mental health. clients to connect with themselves in order to recognize that they can be separated from their thoughts and external events while still maintaining a sense of being themselves. people and adults in particular, it is important to reassure the client that they will not disappear on their own if they are identified only by their thoughts and experiences..