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Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy is effective for the treatment of depression, anxiety or chronic pain and diseases. In the last few years, mindfulness has found its applications in various diseases such as cognitive therapy, persons with mental disorders or learning disabilities. Anger or high-intensity aggressive behavior is a major problem in a community-based setting with individuals with learning disabilities or mental problems. It is both a problem for the caretakers and the people living with the aggressive person. To control the aggressiveness of the individuals with learning disabilities, N.N. Singh and team proposed a self-control strategy in which the individual has to shift his attention from the situation to a neutral point of his body, i.e. soles of his feet. The clinical trials showed that the treatment was effective to reduce the violent behavior and physical aggression. In six months, the patient started to practice self-control strategies for the aggressive behavior

Introduction
The technique of mindfulness is derived from Buddhist roots, which means to maintain awareness of our thoughts, feelings, and surroundings, without judging whether they are right or wrong. By mindfulness, an individual starts focusing on what he/she is sensing at the moment rather than, living in the past or imagining the future. The mindfulness came into the American mainstream in 1979, when Jon Kabat-Zinn launched a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program. The art of mindfulness is closely related to meditation. However, it is not just sitting like a statue, but feeling moment by moment our life. Some researchers have argued that mindfulness has not only Buddhist and Hindu origins, but it is also associated with Jewish, Islam and Christianity religions. Philosophers have described mindfulness as a method to increase awareness about the thought process and its linkage to the actions and responses and as fostering of a more clear thinking. As such, it does not relate specifically to a single religion or cultural belief. Currently, mindfulness is a widely accepted treatment for depression, pain or sufferings from chronic diseases. Any person can practice mindfulness whatever, their culture or religious background is. It does not enforce any particular religion. In psychology, there are mainly two mindfulness-based therapies, namely, mindfulness-based stress reduction and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy.

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy and Development of Soles of Feet Technique
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy is an extension of mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction technique and uses cognitive methods, such as, analyzing brain patterns and thinking patterns to the treatment of psychological disorders and depression. There are many people who are prone to relapse into depression or anger again and again. Depression is a pattern in which an individual play, again and again, negative thoughts and has no control over it. The mindfulness skills prevent an individual to reflect repeatedly on the negative experiences or feelings and shows the person a different way of thinking or relating to the negativity. Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy is a psychological method, to help the people suffering from physical pain or long-term medical condition. It is used to help people who are at risk of depression, or suffering from long-term diseases. It is a meditation practice to make the patient aware of each and every moment and look at his/her surroundings or body changes at a non-judgmental manner .Generally, mindfulness practices are supported by an audio-recorded guide for the meditation. The mindfulness along with cognitive therapy demonstrate the way, an individual can link between his thoughts, body sensations, actions and take care of themselves, especially in depression. It also helps an individual to analyze the pattern of his minds to control depression or aggressive behavior.

Soles of Feet Technique
The meditation on the soles of feet was developed in the late 1990s by psychologists M, M. Singh, and team. It was developed to control the emotionally arousing situations such as anger, or aggressive behavior. The soles of feet technique are based on the mindfulness strategy, as it plans to focus the attention of an emotionally aroused person to something else. In the sole of feet intervention technique, the patients concentrate on the sole of their feet to control their anger. It has a wide application in self-control and prevention of aggressive behavior or suppressing sexually arousing thoughts. The sole of feet technique controls the urge of being aggressive in both physical manner or verbally. When the situation is not to the liking of the person or there is a collision of thoughts between two people, it is common, that some individuals adopt the aggressive behavior, threatening or using abusive language. However, it is not the ideal behavior to deal with the situation. Soles of feet technique is an easy way of quickly calming oneself. The parents too have to deal regularly with the challenging behavior of their children when they are suffering from the psychological diseases. The patients often pander to in aggressive and destructive behavior and the parents seek behavioral and pharmacological intervention; however, these treatments are not enough or effective. Moreover, the behavioral intervention requires consistent efforts on the part of the parents which are rigorous that they stress the parents and treatments are often left incomplete. The sole of feet meditation technique reduces the efforts and stress on the part of the children. Harper, Webb, and Rayner (2013) have critically evaluated eighteen cases of individuals with learning disabilities and the impact of the sole of feet technique to improve their quality of life. In the experiment multiple baseline designs and strong criterion was built to increase the authenticity. The research concluded that mindfulness-based sole of feet intervention can positively impact the life of the individuals

Importance of Soles of Feet Technique for Anger Control
Anger is a common phenomenon, and every person becomes turbulent several times in his life. Sometimes anger can drive a person to take rash decisions, and be behaving unjustifiably in a situation. Aggressiveness is a common problem in persons with learning disabilities. The verbal and physical violence develop a barrier to the community living with mild mental retardation or development disabilities. The typical treatment for the aggressive behavior is psychotropic medicines or behavioral intervention; however, the aggressiveness persists in patients and creates a problem for both community and the health care professionals. Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy is also used to reduce the deliberate attempts to self-harm. The mindfulness-based cognitive therapy emphasizes on the acceptance of the current situation as well as changes towards positivity. The mindfulness practices can be either formal or informal; the formal practices involve meditation practices, such as, sitting or focusing attention or breath or other body function, or walking or yoga practices. The informal practices are deliberately focusing awareness in between everyday life activities on promoting such as breathing exercises. Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Prevention of Recurrence of Suicidal Behavior. Journal of Clinical Psychology: In Session, 1-10. . The role of cognitive therapy in mindfulness is educating the patients about the symptoms, the impact of the negative thoughts and the manner in which the suppression and the repetition of a negative situation can bring harm to the individual and distress, rather than the solution to the problem

Training Steps for Soles of Feet
Soles of feet technique are a simple method to gain or achieve self-control. It is specially designed to control the aggressive behavior of people with learning disabilities. Following are the training steps for successfully performing soles of feet:
 * If an individual is standing, he should stand in a natural posture instead of an aggressive posture and put the soles of your feet flatly on the ground.
 * The same case applies if you are sitting. The person should sit comfortably on the floor and put both of his sole flatly on the floor.
 * Now, the person should breathe in a usual manner and stop doing anything else.
 * Now, remember an incident in which you are furious. Let that event naturally flow through your mind.
 * If the event makes you angry, feel the anger. The anger can be observed by the tension on the face or rapid breathing. The individual should stay with the anger and let the angry thoughts flow without any restriction.
 * After remembering the incidence, the person should concentrate on the soles of the feet. The person should try to shift his complete attention on the sole of feet, and no other thoughts should come in his mind.
 * The person should try to feel his surroundings through the soles of his feet. For example, he should feel the shoes covering his feet or the cloth of his socks; feels the floor, its coolness or mud.
 * Now, perform the breathing exercise and keep your concentration and entire focus on the soles of the feet. This exercise should be done until the person feels calm and has control over his thoughts.
 * This mindfulness soles of feet exercise should be practiced until the person can perform it, whenever, he seems angry. Once, a person has mastered this skill; he can walk away from the incidents and take rational decisions