Mindfulness Man

Mindfulness of Seeing

Learn to look at our beautiful world with awe and wonder. Our eyes are in constant use but we rarely look deeply. Without training ourselves to look mindfully, our perception of the world can be dulled. This mindfulness practice will bring about a deep connection with your world that you might not have felt since being a child.

F R E E

I am going to introduce you to a short body scan I have devised called FREE, FREE being an acronym for Find- Release- Exhale- Enjoy.
I’ve called it FREE because if you make it a habit you will become much more free of mental and physical tension.
You can do throughout the day, eyes open, at your desk and nobody will even notice that you’re doing it. What they will start to notice though is that you start walking around like a zen master, totally unphased by life.
 
F R E E here is what it stands for.
 
F -Feel – Scan the location of your body and be with whatever you find, really feel it and notice any holding or tension place your awareness on it, watch it change
R -Release- Allow the tension to begin to dissolve, let it go, not pushing away but relaxing wherever you can
E- Exhale- Take in a deep breathe as if your body is porous and the breathe can actually penetrate into the tension. And allow a big exhale to take with it the last of any tension that wants to leave.
E- Enjoy  - Return to the area and enjoy any sense of release that has occurred. This is important because the more we reflect on and physically feel the benefits the more likely we are to make it into a a habit.
 
You can do this for the whole body in much smaller parts but for the purposes of a short meditation as an add on practice we will Hit the body in large groups.

Evening Gratitude Reflection

 
This evening gratitude meditation is a response to a poll i ran on the Mindfulness In Daily Life Facebook Group.
So lay down, relax, let go of the day and feel the joy that comes from the deep experience of gratitude.
Do this every night and you will find that joy will begin to permeate your day. 
 
#gratitude #meditation 

Affirmations to Set the Day

Affirmations are a great way to guide our lives in a meaningful direction that aligns with our deepest values.
Listen to these every morning for a week and watch for the changes in your life.
We are going to set the day so that we can rise above any challenge and meet the world from a place of gratitude, awareness and joy rather than our usual patterns of mindless reaction.

Mindfulness Meditation for Beginners

This is a simple mindfulness meditation for beginners.
We use a a technique that is great for beginners but people who have much experience might find it useful. 
When a thought comes up to distract us, we say the thought in our mind and place it on a leaf in a slow moving river.
This techique enables us to distance oursselves from the thought and return to the breath.
Come and join us on our facebook group
 

Allowing the Breath

One of the greatest benefits I have found in using the breath as a meditation object, is that we get to see with bodily intelligence that the mind is a control freak. It can’t help but interfere with everything; it isn’t needed at all in the breath but it still tries to take over.
In this talk and meditation we cultivate awareness of our interfernce and allow the mind to relax around it.

Letting Go

A reflective talk on letting go; seeing how the world is constantly teaching us the way to wisdom if we only slow down enough to see it.

Mindfulness of arising phenomena

In this meditation we pay particular attention to the start of the breathing process. We then turn that heigthened state of of awarness towards the arising of any phenomena; trying to catch the emergence of bodily sensations and thoughts. If we train ourselves to be present for the origin of all phenomena, our mindfulness is strengthened.