MINDFULNESS MEDITATION
“One’s attention is carefully directed to an intense examination of certain aspects of one’s own existence… It is attentive listening, mindful seeing, and careful testing. We learn to smell acutely, to touch fully, and really pay attention to the changes taking place in all these experiences. We learn to listen to our own thoughts without being caught up in them.” Bhante Gunaratana
Mindfulness Meditation is a powerful and scientifically proven way of dealing with the stresses that modern life can throw at us.
Mindfulness involves maintaining a moment-by-moment awareness of thoughts, feelings, sensations, and the surrounding environment through focused awareness, without judgment.
Practicing mindfulness can bring a deep sense of calm and clarity into your life and the more you practice, the deeper the feelings of serenity and peace become.​
The benefits of a daily mindfulness practice are significant, numerous, and various. Not only does it increase awareness, but it also improves attention span and focus as well as clarity of thinking and perception. It's basically a superpower!​
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It has also been shown to be effective in the treatment of depression, stress, and anxiety, as well as a variety of other conditions, including enhancing the functioning of the immune system and lowering blood pressure. Mindfulness is also used very effectively to help sufferers deal with physical pain. Consequently, it's now being used in a significant number of healthcare settings around the world as well as by big corporations, schools, prisons, government departments, and even the US Marines and the British Army. The military use of meditation has a long history, infact. Think of the Samurai a thousand years ago in feudal Japan!
Mindfulness has become the principal go-to self-help and personal development tool in the world.
Mindfulness is central to all of our courses!
Whether you are taking a Reiki course, diving deep into its ancient Buddhist origins through the Buddho training, or want to learn meditation as a way to deal with issues around stress or physical health, mindfulness is central to all of them.
As well as the Reiki, Buddho, Mindfulness for Stress and Mindfulness for Health courses, I also run regular art based workshops, where mindfulness is a significant element of the practice. Note that these are not art therapy workshops. Art is naturally therapeutic and I would rather focus on the development of creativity and the mindfulness aspects of the creative process. I also run a beginners mindfulness course for those who just want to dip their toe in the water without committing to a full 8-week Breathworks training programme.
Vidyamala Burch OBE, talks about mindfulness
The 2015 UK Mindfulness All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) described mindfulness as:
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“Mindfulness is best considered an inherent human capacity akin to language acquisition; a capacity that enables people to focus on what they experience in the moment, inside themselves as well as in their environment, with an attitude of openness, curiosity and care”.
All of our mindfulness courses are structured around the Breathworks approach. Find out about the Breathworks accredited Mindfulness for Stress and Mindfulness for Health courses. You can also explore the Science of Mindfulness.
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