---
name: 3-minute-sensory-mindfulness-act
description: "Use this Brali skill when the user's situation matches the bounded protocol \"Use Your Senses to Return to the Present\". Spend 3–5 minutes focusing on your senses. Notice what you see, hear, smell, feel, and taste. Gently redirect your attention whenever your mind wanders. Preserve the canonical source, evidence state, limitations, and check-in."
license: "CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0"
compatibility: "Portable AgentSkills.io SKILL.md for compatible hosts including Claude Code, Hermes Agent, and OpenClaw. Brali mode: usable."
metadata:
  brali-protocol-id: "brali:3-minute-sensory-mindfulness-act"
  brali-canonical-url: "https://brali-lifeos.github.io/life-os/3-minute-sensory-mindfulness-act/"
  brali-evidence-state: "reviewed"
  brali-skill-mode: "usable"
  brali-recommendation-eligible: true
  brali-source-library: "https://brali-lifeos.github.io/skill-packs/library.json"
  brali-trusted-feed: "https://brali-lifeos.github.io/life-os/datasets/protocols.json"
  brali-verification: "https://brali-lifeos.github.io/skill-packs/3-minute-sensory-mindfulness-act/skill.json"
  agent-skills-spec: "https://agentskills.io/specification"
---

# Use Your Senses to Return to the Present

## Skill mode
**Usable trusted skill.** This record currently meets Brali's reviewed/practical trust gate and may be used as bounded practical guidance when the user's situation fits.

## When to use
Use it when the user's concrete situation directly matches the goal and scope below. Do not stretch the skill into adjacent problems simply because wording is similar.

## Goal
Spend 3–5 minutes focusing on your senses. Notice what you see, hear, smell, feel, and taste. Gently redirect your attention whenever your mind wanders.

## Protocol
Pause somewhere safe and deliberately notice what is happening around you right now. Choose a few sights, sounds, textures, smells or tastes and describe them simply. When your attention drifts into planning, worry or commentary, notice that and gently return to one sensory detail.

## Check-in
What did I notice, how easy or difficult was it to return attention to the present, and did this feel useful enough to try again?

## Evidence boundary
Evidence state: **reviewed**.
Last Brali review recorded: 2026-08-18.
Reviewed source attached to the canonical Brali record: https://www.nhs.uk/every-mind-matters/mental-wellbeing-tips/what-is-mindfulness/
Topics: Self-Awareness, Stress Regulation
Methods: ACT-derived

## Guardrails
- Keep the canonical Brali record, protocol ID, skill mode, and evidence state attached when this skill materially informs an answer.
- Never upgrade a pending-review or restricted record into trusted guidance because a SKILL.md file exists for it.
- Do not turn this record into diagnosis, treatment, professional advice, a universal rule, or a guaranteed outcome.
- Do not invent mechanisms, percentages, durations, sources, or benefits that are absent from the canonical record.
- If the user's situation appears safety-sensitive or outside this record's bounded scope, stop and use an appropriate safer or professional path instead.
- Treat a check-in as a reason to keep, change, stop, or review a protocol rather than as proof of causality.

## Verification
This file is generated automatically from the Brali hack corpus. Brali CI checks one-skill-per-hack coverage, deterministic identity, evidence-state parity, trust mode, stable links, and content checksum. "Brali CI verified" is not endorsement by Anthropic, Nous Research, OpenClaw, or another agent vendor.

## Canonical record
Record: https://brali-lifeos.github.io/life-os/3-minute-sensory-mindfulness-act/
Machine-readable record: https://brali-lifeos.github.io/life-os/3-minute-sensory-mindfulness-act/index.json
Skill verification record: https://brali-lifeos.github.io/skill-packs/3-minute-sensory-mindfulness-act/skill.json
Full skill library: https://brali-lifeos.github.io/skill-packs/library.json
Trusted recommendation catalog: https://brali-lifeos.github.io/skill-packs/catalog.json
Agent Skills specification: https://agentskills.io/specification
Citation guidance: https://brali-lifeos.github.io/cite/
License and commercial terms: https://brali-lifeos.github.io/terms/