The LifeSkills Mindfulness Course [LSM] is primarily based on Buddhist meditation practices that have been used in a range of training courses over the last 30 years to help alleviate stress, unhappiness and chronic pain.Mindfulness refers to the ability that we all have to stay present with our immediate experience and to be fully aware of the context of our experience. Most of us have been educated to rapidly move from being with our experience into thinking about it. This becomes so automatic that we hardly notice it and yet this ‘thinking habit’ can lead to unhappiness and stress.
Although LSM uses meditation practices from Buddhism, it is a secular course open to all and requires no particular religious affiliation or belief.
During the LSM course you will re-connect with your natural ability to be with your experience. LSM involves sustained, in-depth training in suspending habitual ways of thinking and perceiving and in relaxing into direct awareness. This relaxation into ‘being’ is the key way in which we learn to release ourselves from automatically believing in and following our thinking minds.
We will also be exploring other important factors of our lives and how we can engage with these skillfully to avoid undue suffering for ourselves and others
LSM is:
· A series of 2 hour sessions once a week for 8 weeks
· We plan a series of courses starting on Sep 15th at 7.30 pm near Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire
· The 8 week programme costs around £120 depending on venue
To register your interest please email c.ward **at** triplegem.org.uk.(Replacing **at** by @.) You may also call 07885 067374
