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Establishing a foundational practise of mindfulness can help individuals make sense of all the chaos happening around us; reduce stress; feel safer, calmer and wiser and build closer relationships at work and at home.<br> <br>Through the course of the program and the weekly practise, participants will learn to respond and not react to events around them; relate to change and other difficult situations with ease<br>and access the best parts of themselves.<br>This extended program is spread over a month and provides learners with a structure that is effective and yet not formidable.
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Be Here Now An extended program on mindfulness for stress reduction
We’ve all been in these places “I wake up in the morning with a vague feeling of dread; like something is wrong but I don’t know what”. “I’ve been living my life on auto-pilot – I have no sense of what today is”. “It’s so difficult for me to be in the moment; there’s always a sense that there’s something else I should be doing”
It’s not easy to be in the moment “I’m sure you know the feeling of having your attention fractured by job and family, the enticement of electronic diversions, or the chatter of your mind—that morning’s spat with your mate replaying in your head, a litany of worries about the future or regrets about the past, a nervous endless-loop recitation of the day’s to-do list. Parts of that mental soundtrack may be old tapes that were instilled in childhood and have been playing so long we’ve nearly tuned them out of conscious awareness.” Sharon Salzberg
Mindfulness is the antidote to being “mind – full” Establishing a foundational practise of mindfulness can help individuals make sense of all the chaos happening around us; reduce stress; feel safer, calmer and wiser and build closer relationships at work and at home.
Mindfulness is a non-judgmental, kind awareness of the present moment When we are mindful we can, • Choose to respond and not react to events around us • Relate to change and other difficult situations with ease • Access the best parts of ourselves • Spot the unexamined assumptions that are getting in the way of our happiness
Does mindfulness work? Various neuroscience studies have shown that practitioners of meditation had measurably thicker tissue in the left prefrontal cortex, an area of the brain important for cognitive and emotional processing and well-being. Brain scans also suggest that meditation may also counteract the thinning of the cortex that occurs naturally with aging, and thus may protect against memory loss and cognitive deficits Just 8 weeks of a mindfulness program showed shrinkage in the amygdala, a portion of the brain that initiates the body’s response to stress. And there are several more studies showing that a regular mindfulness practice just makes us…happier!
So how do we build a mindfulness practice?
Mindfulness is best built through mild but concerted effort over time This extended program is spread over a month and provides learners with a structure that is effective and yet not formidable. Participants attend a weekly session of 1.5 hours each for four weeks where they learn and practise the three key skills of mindfulness – concentration; mindfulness and compassion. They are provided with audio recordings (of 15-30 mins) for practise on their own during the week.
On completion of the course participants have the choice to join a community of mindfulness practitioners who meet once a week (virtually) to meditate
If you’d like to know more, please write to deepa@navgati.in
