Mindfulness Practice (Beginners)

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5 week course, Commencing DATES TO BE ANNOUNCED

Class Duration: 1.5 hours due to practices building week on week.

Cost: €250

Week 1: Puppy Mind

• To help recognise the importance of the breath in training the faculty of attention

• To gain insight into the untrained mind’s fickle nature similar to that of a puppy

• To develop some simple tools for training our attention

• Encouraging key attributes for attention training: kindness, patience and repetition

• To understand that we can choose what we do with our attention

Week 2: Working with Worry

• Understanding stress: where it comes from, why it’s necessary, how it works and potential harmful effects

• Identify your individual stress signature

• Gain insight into where in the body you feel stress

• Learning to interact with stress differently

Week 3: Beditation

• Recognising the importance of sleep

• How poor sleep impacts or day-to-day functioning and wellbeing

• Understanding the mind’s natural tendency to worry and how this impacts on sleep

• Beditation meditation practice helps switch from ‘thinking mode’ to ‘sensing mode’

Week 4: Being with Others

• Humans are social beings

• How our brains are designed to help identify emotions and experiences of others as well as our own

• Understanding that these signals can be difficult to read and how the combination of thoughts/feelings/actions/body sensations can increase the power of these signals

• Learning to ‘Be and Breathe’ can allow the time and space needed to see more clearly and we can respond more wisely in such situations

Week 5: Treating Yourself as You Would a Good Friend

• Recognising the inner critic – how we judge ourselves

• Learning to treat yourself with kindness and compassion

• Tools to help in moments of harsh self-judgement

• Recognising patterns and working towards new ways of being

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