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Our Meditation Night this coming Friday
we will be looking at MINDFULNESS and how it improves your well being.
This month's newsletter features the following:
Mindfulness and Improved Well being
Increasingly, mindfulness is taking on mainstream acceptance as a means for improving one's physical, emotional and mental health.
Practical and easy to learn techniques, that employ mindfulness are closely associated with stress reduction.
What is mindfulness?
Jon Kabat-Zinn’s definition of mindfulness:
"Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way; On purpose, in
the present moment, and non judgmentally."
Kabat-Zinn, if you haven’t heard of him, is a famous teacher of mindfulness meditation and the founder of the
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program at the University of Massachusetts Medical Centre, U.S.A.
First of all, mindfulness involves paying attention
"on purpose".
Mindfulness involves a conscious direction of our awareness. We sometimes talk about
"mindfulness" and "awareness" as if they were interchangeable terms, but that's not a good habit to get into. I may be aware I’m irritable, but that wouldn’t mean I was being mindful of my irritability.
In order to be mindful I have to be purposefully aware of myself, not just vaguely and habitually aware. Knowing that you are eating is not the same as eating mindfully.
Group Meditation - Friday 26 June
The program for this evening will be practicing several different approaches to mindfulness. This will be an excellent opportunity to strengthen concentration skills and awareness.
Friday night Group Meditation
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Date: Friday 26th June
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Time: 7.30pm to 9.30pm
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Where: Camberwell Community Centre, 405 Camberwell
Road, Camberwell
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Cost: $10 supper provided
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Further details:
click here
Program:
SILENT MEDITATION
MINDFUL MEDITATIONS
Mindful Eating/Mindfulness of the body/Emotional mindfulness and Conscious listening
GUIDED MEDITATION
Please feel free to invite a friend who may need it
and please indicate your intention to attend by
clicking here.
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A MINDFUL EXERCISE:
1. Sit on a cushion or a straight-backed chair in a quiet place where you will be undisturbed by noise or other intrusions.
Focus on your breath for a few minutes.
2. Pick a spot on your body where you can feel your heart beat. It may be your chest, your neck, your wrist or another place where you can feel your blood pumping. Focus on the spot for a few minutes.
3. Extend your awareness to all your veins and arteries, and feel the blood circulating through your heart to the rest of your body. Notice of your heart speeds up or slows down. If thoughts intervene, bring your awareness and focus back to your heartbeat.
4. End your meditation when you are ready. Then express gratitude to having such a marvellous body in a wonderful heart that serves you so faithfully day in and day out. Resolve to take care of your physical body as best you can.
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What's New?
A More than Meditation afternoon seminar
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Date: Saturday 1st August
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Time: 2:00pm - 4:00pm
(Please plan to arrive at 1:45pm)
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Where: Augustine Centre, 2 Minona St,
Hawthorn
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Cost: Free
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Further details:
click here
also ...
More than Meditation 6 week course - begins 27th August
New Date!! 27th August 2009
A course to help you develop mental and emotional
clarity
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6 consecutive Thursday evenings
7:00pm - 8.30pm
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For more information,
click here.
For details and to register: http://www.pathways2wellbeing.com.au
People who practice meditation say they have less
stress, more energy, better sleep, and less tension in their life.
There was some amazing feedback from our meditation
course just completed check it out
I invite you to join us. Click here for details.
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Kind regards,
Bill and Kati Patterson
Email:
billp@mbsolutions.com.au
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