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We will be using lots of different
strategies to develop this mindfulness.
Firstly, we will help you to
establish a routine of spending some time each day
by yourself formally practising mindfulness
meditation. By choosing to engage in this practice
you will learn how to cultivate deep states of
relaxation and well being. You will learn both
sitting and moving meditations.
You will also be learning how to
bring a moment-to-moment awareness to your everyday
activities, and developing techniques of engaging
in a creative - rather than reactive - way to
everyday life situations.
This becomes much easier to do when
you are regularly practicing the formal meditation
each day.
The course will provide an
opportunity for you to examine and reflect on the
patterns of your own mind, feelings and actions,
and to gently interrupt patterns of self-criticism.
Through these means, we will be
learning how to accept and embrace the full range
of experience that life brings - pleasurable,
joyful and expansive experience as well as painful
conditions in their various forms - worry, anxiety,
tension, impatience, anger, grief, sadness and even
despair.
Moving towards these conditions
with an enquiring attitude, rather than trying to
hold on to them, or to escape or avoid them, can
bring some surprising and refreshing
results.
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