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
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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
Week 1-2
Formal- Body Scan Meditation
Informal- Bring Mindfulness to Every Day Experiences
Week 3-4
Formal -Alternate Body Scan and Moving Meditation
Informal- Mindfulness of one un-pleasant or stressful event per day
Week 5-6
Formal -Alternate Sitting Meditation and Body Scan or Moving
Meditation
Informal- Experiencing the difference between reacting and
responding to unpleasant experiences.
Week 7-8
Formal -Combining Body and Mind Meditations
Informal- Developing you own Tiny Mindfulness Practices
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