
Assalaamualaykum! Peace be upon you. And may you find this course genuinely helpful.
Intended outcomes:
Understand the origins of the course
Understand the commitments of time and resources you need
Know the mindset which is most compatible with learning this course.
Follow the important instructions about how to do each section, using the survey-read-recall-review steps.
Intended outcomes:
Understand why patterns and emotions have a strong effect on us.
Learn about how parts of the mind have different roles in influencing thoughts and behaviour
A gentle walk through my own experiences and views, with a message of hope and inspiration to you.
All conscious living things seek pleasure, escape, and solace. Reflect on this, to start gaining a greater degree of sympathy and insight into your own habits.
The first exercise appears easy, and perhaps it is. But fear not if you find it difficult. It is one of those things where the more you do it, the more you will gain its benefit, and the more you will also realise its awesome complexity and depth.
Outcomes:
Greater peace of mind.
Grasping the surprising relationship between insight and behaviour
Greater understanding of tAllah’s mercy and kindness
Understanding the multiple qualities of all events.
Outcomes:
Greater genuine confidence (compared to baseless confidence)
More balanced awareness of self
Techniques to reconstruct positive, balanced emotions
Techniques to make more effective repetitions of lessons and assignments.
Outcomes:
Knowing the real levers for influencing change
Changing your environment to help you improve
Muraqabah is a specific type of focussed Islamic meditation.
It's not a substitute for Salah or other mandatory activities, but it is greatly enhancing of Salah and all other activities in Islamic life.
Organising thoughts into words.
Outcomes:
Defocus from problems: Refocus on solutions
Learn a very different approach to rehabilitation: Islamic principles of growth.
Understanding the gifts that we have within us
Giving our strengths their due attention as part of worshipping Allah
How we perceive our assets is totally up to us.
Outcomes:
Distinguish between truth, perception and reality.
Accept your reality as a mixture of truth and perception
Influence your reality away from problematic perceptions
Outcomes:
Understanding how perceptions can be misleading
Identifying the difference between perception and truth
Understanding that your reality includes both perceptions and truth
Accepting perceptions as part of reality without having to react to them.
Understand the specific ingredients of good character and conduct
Practice techniques to establish the beginnings of your own individual character going forward.
The first part of good conduct is understanding the firm, undeniable truths of life.
The second part of Akhlaaq is Rules of Conduct: principles set by YOU.
Outcome:
Greater self belief
Better decisions
More peaceful life
Outcome:
Understand why people find it difficult to practice
Deeply understand the benefits of Islamic practice
Restore or establish Islamic practice and reap its benefits for the mind
Intended outcomes:
Intense benefit from Islamic practice
Kinetically enhanced reflection and inner peace
Cognitive and problem-solving benefits
Where is the true treasure: the digging, or the gold, or both?
Why prayer- du'aa- is a powerful catalyst for your strengths
Outcomes:
Understand the origins of strengths in different people
Learn how to discover and search for your strengths
Instant peace and worship with immense blessings, disproportionately large in comparison to the effort.
Letting go of unhealthy attachments
Greater perspective over life
Summing up many elements of the course so far, we use a case study of Amir.
Outcomes:
Soothes the emotions in a crisis
Helps improve cognitive efficiency when relaxed
Improves the sense of connection with Allah
Slows down impulses and interferes with them, preventing unwanted actions.
An instant way to tackle strong emotions, with insight, worship, and physical techniques combined.
How the mind works in harmony when you understand and accept it
Outcomes:
Reducing anxiety and pessimism. Replacing them with genuine optimism, not just brittle wishes.
Becoming more comfortable with your limits of knowledge.
Making better prepared decisions.
Intended Outcome:
Letting go of things you can’t control.
Free up mental and physical energy for a more wholesome way of being.
Rebuild trust in Allah, and by consequence, rebuild trust in your own ability.
Outcomes:
Simpler, more bite-size ways to nourish your soul.
Reducing unwanted thoughts
Preventing anxiety in the long term.
You've decided that you want things to change for the better, but you want something that really works. Something that powers you to regain and reclaim your command of life.
Imagine you could, over twelve days, master powerful techniques that not only improve your conduct and faith, but defeat those bad habits, unwanted thoughts or troublesome patterns that keep pulling you down. Dr TK Harris has created this online course as part of his ongoing mission to bring Mental Wealth to all who seek it. Day by day, all the lessons and techniques are laid out with easily followed instructions.
Using powerful techniques from science and Islamic psychology to:
Overcome bad or unwanted habits
Regain joy and control over your life
Discover and regain your true worth
Dismiss unwanted thoughts and troublesome emotions
Appreciate and connect with your spiritual side, and the sense of lightness that this brings
Form virtuous habits: they’re addictive AND wholesome
Deal with bad people and toxic environments better
Put bad memories in their place- away from harming you
Handle pressure without getting stressed
Learn Akhlaaq: Successful character, the person you hope you could be.
Make the goodness last for years, not days.
Sabr also runs as a residential course for this who wish to get a more complete, in-depth experience. You can come to locations in the UK, UAE or South Africa to spend time in a stunning location, and your learning will be assisted by visits from recovery coaches- peers from everyday normal backgrounds who will help you reflect and complete assignments in the course along with taking you on a wide range of outdoor learning-oriented exercises and so on.
Be sceptical of anything that promises instant easy transformation. The course is fairly demanding, requiring around 1 to 2 hours a day at the minimum. Still, being effective doesn't mean being overwhelming, dull or exhausting. Dr Harris promises that the course is designed to be enjoyable and stimulating.
Modern Muslims find it hard to find knowledge that combines both Islamic and medical know-how into one. Dr Harris's work is focused on providing exactly that. He trained in medicine in Oxford, and practised for 20 years as a neuropsychiatrist at the highest level. In 2017 he turned to helping people of faith when his lifelong friend Mufti Menk alerted him to the mental health and wellness: issues that frequently trouble the Ummah. Seven books, online courses, residential courses, talks and so on, all go toward fuelling his Mental Health Access mission, bringing everyday mental wellbeing to people regardless of their background or history.
SABR is effective in helping you make better decisions, overcome unwanted habits, and live a better life. Not a substitute for formal medical treatment by a professional for a mental disorder. Anyone can do SABR. If you have a mental disorder, SABR may help you to recover more quickly because it provides knowledge and techniques to empower yourself, especially if you also have professional help alongside. Neither SABR online nor SABR residential courses claim facility or supervision for formal medical conditions. All students should participate willingly and freely.