What is Mindfulness?
Mindfulness is the intentional practice of developing key concentration skills:
FOCUS POWER
CLARITY
OPENNESS
By bringing one's attention to the present moment, we become fully aware of our thoughts, emotions, bodily sensations, and the environment around us.
By practising our mindfulness skills, we cultivate our internal power to remain centred and fully engaged in the present, freeing ourselves from anxiety and the grasp of past regrets or future concerns.
Mindfulness skills enables us to attain deeper levels of relaxation as we learn to embrace our experiences with acceptance, fostering a profound sense of tranquillity and inner harmony.
Regular mindfulness practice enhances:
Our capacity to concentrate - resulting in heightened clarity
Improved overall well-being
A more enriching life experience
What are the benefits of increased mindfulness?
Learning mindfulness offers a profound motivation for embarking on a transformative journey.
Relief
By developing mindfulness skills, it provides effective stress relief by teaching us to work with our thoughts and emotions with openness and acceptance. Mindfulness helps us to break free from the grip of stress and anxiety, giving us the ability to relieve our own suffering and find solace amidst life's challenges.
Fulfilment
As we become more focused, our clarity sharpens and as we become more open and receptive to what we are experiencing, everything has a vibrancy. Our ordinary experiences becomes extraordinary. This opens the door to a deeper sense of fulfilment as we learn to appreciate the beauty of each moment and the joy that spontaneously arise.
Understanding ourselves
Mindfulness provides a pathway to understanding ourselves at various levels. Becoming aware of our thoughts, emotions, and behaviours, noticing patterns and relationships between them. It’s like pointing a microscope on ourselves, we start to be more aware of them, the habits, behaviours and the make up of our self. As we become aware of these strands, as they unravel we get insights about ourselves, an inner knowing and we can get in touch with the intuitive wisdom function that is within us.
Self-improvement
We can use Mindfulness to improve ourselves, helping us to act more effectively in making positive changes in the world. As our skills sharpen through ‘Understanding Yourself’, you might become aware of behavioural patterns that you would like to improve or develop positive habits.
Cultivating love and compassion
With self-awareness, we can make positive changes and cultivate personal growth. This encourages us to interact from a place of love and compassion, fostering genuine connections and making a positive impact in the world.
"Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world."
Sri Ramana Maharshi
