Mindfulness Training
"mindfulness, changes everything"
STUDY:

Source- Full Catastrophe Living by Jon Kabat-Zinn

Section-1
The Power of Breathing:
Always Our Friend in Healing

Being in Your Body:
The Body Scan

Moving the Body:
Cultivating Strength, Balance and Flexibility

Mindfulness in Daily Life:
Really Doing, What You are Doing

Section-2
Body and Mind:
Evidence that Beliefs, Attitudes, Thoughts and Emotions Can
Harm or Heal

Section-3
Reactivity:
Responding to Stress, Rather then Reacting to it.

Section-4
The Pain is Not Me:
Working With Physical, Emotional and EGO Pain

Stress:
Time, Sleep, People, Role, Work, Food, World

Section-5
The Way of Awareness:
Keeping Up the Formal & Informal Practice
PRACTICE:

In Class Training Exercises
Body Posture
Belly Breathing
Standing Posture


Types of Meditation:
Body Scanning
Sitting, Walking
Moving Meditation

Objects of Meditation
Breath, Body, Sound, Thoughts, Feelings, Choice-less Awareness


APPLICATION:

Student Homework

Session-1
Formal- Body Scan Meditation
Informal- Bring Mindfulness to Every Day Experiences

Session-2
Formal -Alternate Body Scan and Moving Meditation
Informal- Mindfulness of one un-pleasant or stressful event per day

Session-3
Formal -Alternate Sitting Meditation and Body Scan or Moving
Meditation
Informal- Experiencing the difference between reacting and
responding to unpleasant experiences.

Session-4
Formal -Combining Body and Mind Meditations
Informal- Developing you own Tiny Mindfulness Practices
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Tools
The Four Class Outline of STUDY, PRACTICE and APPLICATION