What You Get From the Six-Week Mindfulness Course

Reconnect to the Present Moment

Mindfulness is the undistracted awareness of the experience of the present moment.

The present moment is where we live our lives but the modern mind is obsessed with the past and the future.
Our minds have three potential states: immersed in the inner narrative, aware of the inner narrative, or free of the inner narrative.

We need to be able to choose the focus of our minds or else we will spend our lives in mind loops and acting on autopilot.

Mindfulness is the undistracted awareness of the experience of the present moment. The present moment is where we live our lives but the modern mind is obsessed with the past and the future.

Our minds have three potential states: immersed in the inner narrative, aware of the inner narrative, or free of the inner narrative.

We need to be able to choose the focus of our minds or else we will spend our lives in mind loops and acting on autopilot.

Many of the students that attend my course experience mindfulness sometimes for the first time in their lives. Once we have identified this experience, with an ancient and time-tested set of practices we can train our subconscious to bring us there.

Manage Your Stress

Stress is a primal response to a challenge.

Our brains can subconsciously identify a potential threat and put us in a stressful state without us realizing it. In fact, this happens all the time. Stress elevates our blood pressure and heart rate and prepares us to meet the challenge physically.
The problem with chronic stress is that most of our challenges don't need a physical response. If Stress is regular, we become chronically stressed. Chronic stress suppresses our immune system, keeps the body in a heightened state of awareness affects sleep, and creates anxiety and worry.

At the heart of my six-week Mindfulness-Based Resilience Course is a set of stress management practices that are time-tested and based on cutting-edge science.
Join us to learn how to manage your stress better.

Find Calmness

Calmness is our natural state.

Beneath the tape that's constantly running in our minds is a still, silent calmness. This is how our ancestors, living in nature, would spend much of their lives.

The manic modern world creates an infinite list of tasks and a continuous stream of comparison and judgment. The resulting inner narrative spends its day planning, remembering, judging, and comparing.

This is why we seek out quiet places in nature. This is why our ideal holidays are mountains and lakes, beaches, woodland, and islands.

As your skills and experience grow in meditation, your access to this calm connection to the outside world arises no matter where you are.

These are the skills I teach in my six-week Mindfulness-Based Resilience Course.

End Worry

Worrying has less to do with the content of thoughts and more to do with intensity.

Worriers often feel frustrated and sometimes despairing about their worrying, while at the same time, they may worry that they are not worrying enough about something.

On my six-week Mindfulness-Based Resilience course, we dedicate an entire class to understanding worry and learning effective techniques to intervene in it. These include both formal practices (meditations) and strategies to use in daily life when your mind becomes stuck in unhelpful patterns.

Gain Focus

Focus is essential.

We all possess a single awareness, which can either be immersed in our inner narrative, aware of the narrative, or free from it.

Mindfulness training involves becoming conscious of the narrative, but our ultimate goal is to break free from the repetitive thoughts that run through our minds.

We want increasing influence over the focus of our minds and to concentrate on what matters most, knowing that doing so can transform our lives.

Focusing our awareness is at the heart of the practices that I teach throughout the six-week Mindfulness-Based Resilience Course.

Boost Your Meditation Practice

Most of us, at some point, have tried meditation.

The benefits of meditation are well-known and most people know at least one person who meditates.

Through meditation, we learn to become familiar and comfortable with our minds. We learn to connect to the present moment, to our bodies, to the natural world, and to others.

We are told that we must meditate reasonably regularly or have a regular practice to gain the benefits, and there is some truth in that. I teach a set of practices that fit in with our lives, rather than having to yet another thing to our Internet task list.

I teach these practices are part of my six-week Mindfulness-Based Resilience Course.

Reduce Anxiety

Anxiety forms the backdrop of the modern world.

Insecurity and fear of future outcomes drive modern human behaviour.

Anxiety accumulates. If we are anxious then the brain becomes hypervigilant and seeks to identify anything that could be a threat.

Once our brains identify a threat, it adds another layer of anxiety. The pandemic and the permacrisis that we find ourselves in is infinite fuel f the fire of anxiety.

What is added can also be taken away. This goes for uncomfortable emotions too. To release our many layers of anxiety we need to learn emotional processing.

The emotional resilience class is the heart of my six-week Mindfulness-Based Resilience Course.

Relax

Relaxation is not watching the TV with a glass of wine.

Relaxation is the ability to identify tension in your body and release it to leave you relaxed. Many people carry stress, worry, and anxiety as tension in their bodies. It is written on their faces, you can hear it in their voices and see it in their posture and movements.

Incremental relaxation teaches us how to switch off this physical response bit by bit in the body and to get better at doing this over time.

I teach incremental relaxation in the six-week Mindfulness-Based Resilience Course.

How to enroll

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