Meditation
Mindfulness is being present now kindly.
Paying attention with open curiosity to this experience.
You can live mindfully with whatever is here, whether pleasant, unpleasant or neutral.
Kind Awareness opens up choices to self care, advocate, be proactive with what you want and need.
Staying present with uncomfortable states without changing them allows them to gradually resolve like a wave.
Being fully present with your unpleasant experience does not mean tolerating abuse. Your awareness gives you choice and energy to act for your best health and safety.
Meditation is a way to practice this quality of presence and get better at being compassionately self aware.
To practice Meditation, choose a focus and bring your attention back every time your mind wanders. 10x, 100x, 1000x...
Focus on one of these - breathing or body sensations,
a visualisation or an activity.
Whether you spend a min, 10 min or 30 min, start where you can, with what you enjoy and go from there. Mind chatter is normal.
Be kind to yourself.
Mindfulness is being present now kindly.
Paying attention with open curiosity to this experience.
You can live mindfully with whatever is here, whether pleasant, unpleasant or neutral.
Kind Awareness opens up choices to self care, advocate, be proactive with what you want and need.
Staying present with uncomfortable states without changing them allows them to gradually resolve like a wave.
Being fully present with your unpleasant experience does not mean tolerating abuse. Your awareness gives you choice and energy to act for your best health and safety.
Meditation is a way to practice this quality of presence and get better at being compassionately self aware.
To practice Meditation, choose a focus and bring your attention back every time your mind wanders. 10x, 100x, 1000x...
Focus on one of these - breathing or body sensations,
a visualisation or an activity.
Whether you spend a min, 10 min or 30 min, start where you can, with what you enjoy and go from there. Mind chatter is normal.
Be kind to yourself.
Benefits
Here's what meditators find over time
Here's what meditators find over time
- increasing calm
- sounder sleep
- more relaxed
- less reactive to circumstances
- improvements in chronic pain and illness
- better self soothing
- more tuned into what you want most in your life
- better at advocating for what is important to you
- engage more calmly with others
- face difficulties in a more grounded way
- avoid and procrastinate less...
Dr Tony Fernando on neuroscience of happiness and how mindfulness makes a difference to our well being.
Jamie Catto's amusing explanation of how being kindly present with our discomfort allows our self-healing process to resolve unfinished stress held in our system.
Thich Nhat Hanh - The Four Qualities of Love
Mindful eating and eating more of foods that enhance our body's calm response. Read more here
Rick Hanson
"Besides feeling good in its own right, opening to love heals psychological wounds, builds resilience, and supports personal growth. In your brain, love calms down the stress response and reduces activation in the neural circuits of physical and emotional pain. It nourishes moral behaviour and helps keep you out of needless conflicts with others. And cultivating a loving heart is central to spiritual practice in every tradition."
"Besides feeling good in its own right, opening to love heals psychological wounds, builds resilience, and supports personal growth. In your brain, love calms down the stress response and reduces activation in the neural circuits of physical and emotional pain. It nourishes moral behaviour and helps keep you out of needless conflicts with others. And cultivating a loving heart is central to spiritual practice in every tradition."
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