
This video will explain the context of the challenge and how it came about, during a worldwide pandemic and my family contracting Covid, its a training piece but also a window into my life at a very challenging time x
Day one we cover the rudiments of Mindfulness
- How mindfulness reduces stress
- Spiritual awakening and awareness
- Dealing with feelings and emotions that come into our awareness
- Repressed memories traumas etc.
- Thinking from left to right
- How mindfulness saved my life
- Intro to mindfulness and meditation
Day Two we cover the following
- 7 myths of meditation
- Practicing mindfulness is necessary to grow and cultivate it
Day 3 we cover
What positive emotions look like in the brain?
What affects the left and right cortex region of the brain
Neuroplasticity and forming new highways
Cortical thickening through learning and practice
Day 4 we cover
- All about thoughts
- Thoughts are real but not true; we are not our thoughts
- Self-judgment
- Acceptance, acknowledgement and letting go
- Counting your thoughts meditation
Loving Kindness Meditation
Daily Round Up
Day 5 we discuss
- Emotions and how they affect us
- Self-kindness vs Self judgment
- Building a resistance by facing our emotions
- Secondary response to stress
- Body scan meditation and round up
We look at the following in this section
- Stress
- We stress because we care
- Oxytocin
- STOP Practice
Loving Kindness Meditaiton
We cover the following on this day
- Listening
- Mindful communication
- Dropping the agenda during conversation
- Communicating with confidence
We repeat the Loving Kindness Meditation
- Compassion and how to grow it
- How mindfulness creates interdependence
- We are all connected
- Compassion towards ourselves as well as others
Mountain Meditation
- Gratitude and gratefulness
- Projecting our high expectations
- Re-evaluating our relationships with ourselves and others
Loving Kindness Meditation
- Blame
- Difference between sympathy and empathy
Lake Meditation
- Awakening through conflict with mindfulness in difficult times
- Finding a way out of conflict
- Finding a better way to spend our energy instead of flinging blame
- Forgiveness is the key
- Loving kindness meditation
- Mindful awareness and balance in life
- Mindful way of being aware of fearful thoughts and over thinking
- Being present and facing our thoughts
- Sensing subtle energy exercise (hand meditation)
- Body scan meditation
- Working memory
- Having a lot of memory thoughts
- Substituting memory thoughts for other thoughts
- Let situations unfold instead of placing expectations on them
- Seeing old memory thoughts just as thoughts
- Seeing all thinking, just as thinking without judgement
- Breath as an anchor meditation (counting breaths)
Resources
- Loving kindness meditation
- Where we are in our mindfulness journey
- Amplification of awakening and how we treat ourselves
- Being kind to ourselves
- Go for a mindful walk
- Be in the moment
- Questioning things, refocusing and recalibrating
- Holding our interior and exterior connections
- Mountain meditation
- Anxiety
- Building an anticipation of dread in our minds
- Lack or control and self-worth
- Anticipation becomes our reality
- Addressing anxiety and worries with loving kindness
- Increasing our mindful reactions to anxiety
- Brushing your teeth mindfully exercise
- Anxiety meditation
Seven hours on mindfulness, and almost none of it is about sitting cross-legged. It is about what happens in the twenty-three and a half hours you are not meditating.
This is the most-reviewed course in this part of my catalogue.
What you will cover
Build a practice that holds up on a Monday morning
Notice a reaction before you are already halfway into it
Use mindfulness under pressure rather than only in quiet
Teach the basics to somebody else
Your certificate
Your certificate is waiting in the final lecture. Download it, put your name on it, and it is yours to keep. Udemy also issues its own Certificate of Completion automatically once you have finished every lecture, so you end up with both.
Who this is for
This is for you if you want the whole thing rather than the highlights - the practice, the reasoning behind it, and enough understanding to explain it to somebody else without repeating phrases you half remember.
Seven hours, and almost none of it asks you to sit still for long stretches. The work is in the ordinary hours - the meeting, the traffic, the conversation you did not want to have. That is where mindfulness either holds or it does not, and that is where this course spends its time.
Grounded Living is the part of my work that has nothing to do with the spiritual side of what I teach. There is no belief required and no framework to buy into. It runs in six steps, and every course names the one that comes next, so you always know where you are and what follows.
Where this sits
Step one of Grounded Living.
What to take next
Stress Management, or Self Confidence and Self Esteem.
If you get stuck, message me. I answer every question myself.
A note on promotion
This course contains a promotional element. At the end there is optional material about my other work, free resources and any current offers. It is separate from the teaching, nothing in it is required, and the course is complete without it.