Our one-to-one mindfulness programs give you the opportunity to get the amazing benefits of mindfulness in a personalised program, at your own pace and on your own terms. Let’s look at some of the main themes and practices that these sessions focus on.
What is Mindfulness
Mindfulness means deliberately attending to and becoming more aware of our experience. This includes our thoughts, feelings, and bodily sensations. This process allows us to perceive thoughts, physical sensations, emotions, and events as they occur, without reacting in an automatic or habitual way. By developing a new relationship with our present moment experiences, we can respond more creatively. Experiences don’t overwhelm us, and we can remain steady through life’s ups and downs.
Mindfulness isn’t a cool and detached awareness though – it’s warm, gentle, and kind. During the course, we’ll have the opportunity to try out meditations focused on kindness, which can help you to develop this aspect of mindfulness further. Like mindfulness, kindness has been shown to reduce levels of stress.
During the Course
During the course, we’ll engage in various activities to foster mindfulness and kindness. These include formal meditation practices, as well as small things you can do in the midst of daily life, such as doing a routine task mindfully, taking a break, and slowing down a little during an activity.
In particular, we’ll use the sensations of the body and the breath to help develop awareness. The aim of meditation is not to prevent the mind wandering off – which it will do, repeatedly – but to get into the habit of learning to check in with our experience.
The Meditation Practices
The formal meditation is focused practice at learning to check in, and the informal mindful activities are means to extend that learning into our daily lives. Both practices are important. During the course you are encouraged to try out all the different practices fully, so that at the end of the course you can decide which practices work best for you.
We love sharing our skill and expertise in mindfulness with our clients. If you’d like to find out more, or you’re ready to continue your mindfulness journey with us, drop us a line for a free consultation.