Mindfulness Meditation for Real Life

We will begin our study of Mindfulness Meditation by studying the most common misconceptions and myths that may discourage students from engaging in a meditation practice. 

We will learn how and why Mindfulness Meditation became so popular by briefly studying its history.

We will study why Mindfulness Meditation is so important from a social and anthropological point of view.

In this lesson we will analyze the concept of mindfulness and we begin to see why meditation is so important. 

This is the first Mindfulness Meditation Practice. The object of this practice is that the student may experience a meditation practice and get a sense of how simple meditation really is.

We will learn the basics of the cognitive process; we will discuss an overview of the limbic system and how mindfulness meditation will work with it.

We will learn how the amygdalae, one of the limbic system´s most important structures in our stress related ailments, work and how mindfulness meditation can teach you to work with them.

In this lesson we will learn what the Hippocampal Region of our brain does in our cognitive process and its relevance to Mindfulness Meditation.

In this lesson we will study how the untrained brain works; how it processes a stimulus perceived by our senses and get a preview of how Mindfulness Meditation may work to improve this mechanism.

The aim of this practice is to learn how to deactivate our emergency mode by managing our amygdalae through mindfulness meditation. 

In this lesson we will learn what causes stress, why it is so dangerous and how Mindfulness Meditation can aid us in managing it properly.  

The goal of this practice is to learn how to manage our stress reactions through mindfulness meditation. 

In this lesson we will talk about fatalism or the human tendency we are born with that makes us always mentally expect the worse possible outcome and fixate on the bad rather than having an unbiased appreciation of reality. And how Mindfulness Meditation can help us change that unhealthy habit. 

In this lesson we will learn why a brain left to wonder freely is a brain at risk and how Mindfulness Meditation can help us be more aware and less prone to this very common danger.

The goal of this practice is to get a glimpse of how easy it is for our brain to create and modify specific scenarios and how we can use this to our advantage through mindfulness meditation.  

In this lesson we will study the pause, or Mindfulness Gap, that Meditation and Mindfulness practices in general provides to the practitioner between a thought and its reaction.  What can we do with it and why is it so beneficial. 

In this lesson we will study what the “present moment” actually is as well as the importance of having a mind that is capable of maintaining awareness on the here and now and how Mindfulness and Meditation can help us achieve such a mind.

In this lesson we will study what neuroplasticity actually is and how the brains ability to change its structure by incorporating new connections between synapses may be used to our advantage through Mindfulness Meditation.

In this lesson we will learn about positivism and vulnerability, two very welcomed side effects of the mindfulness gap and how Mindfulness Meditation helps us open those tightly shut doors.

This practice is the core practice; you will learn how to meditate using only your breath as your anchor.  This means that you will be able to practice this meditation in almost any scenario.

The aim of this lesson is to provide you with practical Mindfulness exercises you can practice without the need of Meditation.   We will discuss what Mindfulness in action is and how it can be applied to our everyday life.

The aim of this practice is to open you minds to the extremely broad realm of possibilities that we may be able to find in our lives to practice mindfulness without the need of meditation.  

In this lesson, considering the many distractions we face in our era, we will study how Mindfulness can be applied to modern day technology with all its modern gadgets and props. 

In this practice we will learn how take a Mindful walk.

We wrap thing up with a couple of very important reminders and how to keep in touch with your instructor. 

In this bonus lesson you will learn the popular body scan meditation technique.