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25.01.2022 - Meditation workshop on understanding and organising thoughts - You have on average 60000-70000 thoughts per day. 90% of those thoughts are the same as the previous day.... There is a saying in Buddhist psychology that "all that we are the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become. Thoughts shape our reality. They help us create and achieve our dreams. Thoughts can also perpetuate our cycles of dysfunction and suffering. This workshop offers theories for you to understand the nature of your thoughts. You will also learn meditation techniques to train yourself to reorganise the way you perceive and experience your thoughts. The aim is to understand and organise your thoughts so you can build a healthier relationship with your thoughts. See you there! Much love
23.01.2022 Hi everyone, I'm running a new meditation workshop on how to clean up the way we relate to others. More info in the event description. ...
22.01.2022 Hi ! I'm running an online meditation class on Tuesday the 18th of August. I will be teaching about concentration to calm and steady the mind.... According to the neuroscientist, Amishi Jha, the average person spends 50% of their waking moments in mind-wandering mode. This is when the default network in the brain takes over and you chase thoughts about the past or future. Mind-wandering mode is one of the major causes of negative self-talk, obsessive thinking, catastrophising, and disorganisation of mind. Concentration meditation deactivates the default mode network and reduces mind-wandering. It is the antidote to rumination and trains you to be more present and stay with the task at hand.
18.01.2022 According to Dr. Paul Ekman and the Dalai Lama, there are five primary emotions: - Anger - Fear - Disgust - Sadness... - Enjoyment Emotions are visceral experiences in the body. They are the felt experiences of life. You can think of an emotion as energy in motion. The energy of emotions drive motivation, action, and behaviour. Evolutionary theory describes emotions as innate adaptations. We have emotions to adapt for: - What supports our survival - What threatens our survival And your emotions have evolved from: - Your evolutionary past (your ancestors) - Your personal past (your own life) The emotions you experience today are shaped and influenced by the survival adaptations of your personal past + the survival adaptions of your ancestors. Some of those emotional adaptations can disorganise your mind in the following ways: - Physiological response: shaking, heaviness, clenching, sweaty palms, racing heart - Behavioural response: bad decision making, reactivity, craving, aversion, blaming, withdrawal, impulsivity - Cloudy or overactive mind - Stickiness in your being - Inability to tolerate multiple feelings Meditation is a tool for understanding your emotions. It trains you to notice the subtle feeling quality and nuance of the emotions emerging in your body. Meditation is also a tool for organising your emotions. It teaches you to observe and become more aware of how your emotions influence your life and disorganise your mind. And meditation trains you to adapt to your emotions in more healthy ways. All of your emotions are an expression of a different part of you. Ultimately, meditation trains you to welcome, befriend and accept your emotions so you build a healthier relationship yourself. We explore emotions and more in meditation training. DM me if you are keen to understand and organise your emotions.
18.01.2022 Because some of the layers of the self produce unconscious and often harmful programs. - Behavioural programs - Thought programs (stories) - Emotional programs - Limiting beliefs ... - Relationship programs - Personality programs - Intergenerational programs - Tribal programs In order to change the program, you first need to bring awareness to it.
18.01.2022 We all have behavioural programs, thought programs, emotional programs, and belief programs running on autopilot. These programs have been constructed unconsciously and consciously from repeating the same responses to our environment, people, and sensory experiences again and again. These programs aren’t bad. They are adaptations that helped you survive, kept you safe, and protected you throughout life.... But some of these programs may not be serving you anymore. They may actually be causing harm to you or others. If your programs were constructed from survival responses and adaptations, then meditation is a tool for retraining you to adapt with more mature and healthier responses. In meditation practice, you are retraining yourself, second-after-second, to adapt to sensory experiences and the environment with increased objectivity, acceptance, non-judgement, and non-reactivity. As your awareness deepens with practice, you create space to deconstruct (clear away) the programs that are causing harm to you or others. With consistent practice, meditation helps you evolve to have healthier and more mature responses and subsequent programs (ways of being). Say you are meditating for 20 minutes (which is 1200 seconds), then every second is an opportunity to retrain the way you adapt and evolve yourself.
17.01.2022 The mind is the basis of everything we experience in life and the basis of every contribution you can make to lives of others. But what is a mind? We explore this deep question and many others in our meditation training courses. ... DM me if you want to go deeper
17.01.2022 Hi friend, Do you need some guidance for your meditation practice? I'm holding an online group meditation class on Thursday, July 16 at 7.30pm AEST. ... The class follows a semi-structured format. The first hour is an open forum, allowing students to ask questions, discuss their own meditation practice, and seek meditation guidance in general. In the final half-hour, we will use the themes from the conversation and apply them in a guided meditation practice. Ticket available on the event page.
16.01.2022 So there was a study conducted at Harvard Medical School. It commenced in 1938 and is still the world’s longest study on adult development. The key findings from the study so far indicate that close relationships, more than money or fame, are what keep people happy throughout their lives.... Healthy relationships help: - Protect people from life’s discontents - Delay mental and physical decline - Are better predictors of long and happy lives than social class, IQ or even genes. The research also explains that people who are satisfied in their relationships at age 50 were the healthiest at age 80. But why can it be so hard to maintain healthy relationships with people? Often it’s because we operate from patterns and programs that were built from coping and defensive mechanisms when we were young. These coping and defence mechanisms helped us adapt when we were young. But as adults, they may be increasing interpersonal conflicts. They may be causing harm to us or someone we love. Therefore, it’s important to clean up the ways we relate so we can foster healthy and safe relationships. From the meditation perspective, we clean up the way we relate with others by holding wider and deeper levels of compassion. In my next meditation workshop, I will be sharing theories and tools from the world's of Western psychology and Buddhist psychology to understand how to clean up the way we relate to others. PM me if you’re interested
16.01.2022 I've released the next meditation workshop. It follows on from understanding and organising your thoughts and goes a layer deeper. The topic of the next workshop is understanding and organising your emotions. You can learn more about the event via this link: https://www.facebook.com/events/299278367834412/ Much love
14.01.2022 - Meditation workshop on understanding and organising emotions - This workshop follows on from understanding and organising your thoughts and goes a layer deeper. Emotions are visceral experiences in the body. They are the felt experiences of life. You can think of an emotion as energy in motion. The energy of emotions drive motivation, action, and behaviour.... We will address the following points in the workshop: - What is an emotion? - The evolutionary and scientific perspective on emotions - What causes emotions? - Disorganised emotions - Organised emotions - Why is it important to understand and organise your emotions? - How do you know if you are increasing emotional intelligence? - The Atlas of Bodily Sensations - the scientific map of emotions in your body - The emotion sensation wheel - Meditation technique to notice the subtle feeling quality and nuance of the emotions emerging in your body Much love
13.01.2022 - Meditation workshop on understanding and organising thoughts - You have on average 60000-70000 thoughts per day. 90% of those thoughts are the same as the previous day.... There is a saying in Buddhist psychology that "all that we are the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become. Thoughts shape our reality. They help us create and achieve our dreams. Thoughts can also perpetuate our cycles of dysfunction and suffering. This workshop offers theories for you to understand the nature of your thoughts. You will also learn meditation techniques to train yourself to reorganise the way you perceive and experience your thoughts. The aim is to understand and organise your thoughts so you can build a healthier relationship with your thoughts. See you there! Much love
09.01.2022 This is a snippet from the podcast with @oneness.world. Thanks for having me on the show to talk about meditation
08.01.2022 Reactivity is one of the main causes of inner dysfunction and suffering. It has become part of the "way of being" in our culture and is often a very deep and unconscious pattern that plays out until we bring awareness to it. Some of the things we tend to react to include: Anxiety Anxiety about anxiety... Stress Stress about stress Thoughts Emotions The emotions of others What other people say What other people do Challenging experiences Old wounds Tiredness/fatigue Hunger Heat Cold Being in a rush to get somewhere Meditation helps you bring awareness and understand your patterns of reactivity. Meditation is also a way to train non-reactivity, so you can create more space and freedom to choose how you respond in every moment. As you stabilise non-reactivity, you begin to master your mind and reduce dysfunction and suffering. Non-reactivity is one of the most critical skills for cultivating for a better quality life. Signs of progress include greater self-control, calmness, harmony, and peace. Note: Some reactivity is instinctual and critical to survival, such as pulling away quickly after touching a hot object. We like that reactivity
07.01.2022 You have on average 60000-70000 thoughts per day. 90% of those thoughts are the same as the previous day. The Buddha claimed all that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.... Thoughts shape our reality. But what is a thought? We explore this question and more in meditation training. DM me if you are keen to understand and organise your thoughts.
03.01.2022 The following is a level-by-level breakdown of the unconscious reactivity that gets stored in the mind-body: 1. Senses absorb information - information in the form of sound, site, taste, touch, smells gets absorbed through your sensory consciousness (e.g. you hear your boss tell you that your work needs improvement) 2. Bodily sensations - the sensory information causes the body to respond (e.g. your body tenses up and your stomach churns after hearing that your work needs imp...rovement) 3. Beliefs - the sensory information combined with the bodily sensations causes you to create meaning/beliefs about the experience (e.g. you construct the belief that you are not good enough at your job) 4. Emotions - the belief causes an emotion (or mixture of emotions) to arise (e.g. you feel sad that you believe you aren’t good at what you do) 5. Thoughts - the emotion causes a thought or many thoughts (stories) to elaborate (e.g. I’m obviously not good at this job, I’m not good at anything in life) 6. Behaviours - the thoughts lead to a behaviour or action (e.g. you quit your job because you don’t think you are good enough) Each level has some degree of unconscious reactivity. Meditation helps you bring awareness to the levels of unconscious reactivity and then trains your mind-body to be able to choose a different response. The easiest place to start is to bring your awareness to behaviours that may be causing you or others harm/suffering. Then work backwards through the levels (e.g. become aware of the behaviour, then become aware of the thoughts that led to the behaviour).
02.01.2022 From the meditation perspective, negativity and suffering is the consequence of an untrained and disorganised mind. Meditation is a direct way to train your mind. And what happens when you train your mind?... You reduce your negative states and increase your positive states of mind.
