Principles of Mindfulness Meditation
A free Eight Week Online Course
Learn to meditate and reduce stress from the comfort of your home.
This eight week online course is designed for people new to mindfulness practice, with the aim of introducing principal aspects of traditional Mindfulness Meditation (Vipassana/Insight Meditation) in a secular way.
Some experienced practitioners, including MBSR (Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction) instructors and teachers, find it helpful in reviewing and clarifying some aspects of the mindfulness practice, particularly the Four Foundations of Mindfulness. REGISTER FOR FREE HERE.
Introduction to Mindfulness
Most of us find life stressful at times, particularly when afflicted by illness or faced with difficulties. We tend to be impatient, and lost in the past or in the future instead of being present. We also tend to resist or react to things by denying, commenting, or judging them rather than being receptive and trying to understand them. This reaction creates more stress. We do not fully live our life if we are not entirely in touch with our present life experience.
We tend to take care of our body but neglect our mind. Mental cultivation can be effectively done through meditation which can enhance one's emotional intelligence (EI).
Meditation
Mindfulness meditation explores life as it is occurring in the present moment, without being attached to pleasant experiences or resisting unpleasant ones.
By paying nonjudgmental attention to all aspects of life, one develops insights into its ever-changing, unsatisfactory and impersonal/uncontrollable nature. This allows for facing life’s ups and downs with more equanimity/composure, encountering less stress and confusion, more joy, and inner peace.
Practice in Daily Life
Mindfulness practice can be done informally during ordinary daily activities by having a general awareness of what is happening in the body and the mind and what we interact with, using the tools shared in this course.
What People Are Saying
“I found this course extremely helpful, not only to practice daily, but also to present a different, balanced perspective from the accepted American cultural norm. After two years, I am still using the practices and the ideals…”
— Leslie H., Texas/USA
“Thank you for a fantastic course and an opportunity to learn the foundations of mindfulness and getting closer to one self. I am so grateful for this chance and I feel blessed being able to participate. I also feel that my heart has grown bigger through these eight weeks and I am certain that this has planted a seed of a future that will be muchly influenced by these new practices and insights.”
— Ulf S./Sweden
“Thank you for opening a new world for me, a world that I can access now by myself.”
— Keshet B./Israel
“...I handle disappointment, anger, uneasiness, sadness etc (just to mention a few things) much much better and I have an overall appreciation for my life in almost all aspects. Thank you so very much for giving me the possiblity to enhance my life in this manner - it not only affects me but also affects all the many many lives of other people I abide with every week - especially my family.”
— Heidi R, Copenhagen/Denmark.
“...I feel like I have really just begun, yet come a long way, and have a long way to go to really incorporate and experience the "right mindfulness" to all aspects of life, and experience it as just part of reality. But, I HAVE begun and am confident that mindfulness practice has become part of my life now.”
— Wesley B., California/USA
“I feel overwhelmed with gratitude for this course. As for the second week, I love the Loving Kindness initiative. I had heard of this before, but the way you have communicated its value is much better than I had understood it. It is a wonderful approach, and if only everyone in the world practiced this, it would be a happier place.”
— Iona L., NW/Scotland
“My stress level is considerably lower than at the begining of this course. Thank you for your time and dedication in offering this course.”
— Natália. H/Brazil.
“I find myself calmer, more detached, more able to overcome anger, more peaceful. It may be a coincidence but my blood pressure had dropped. Most of all I feel that I have a tool that I will be able to use.”
— Martin, Blackpool/UK
Contact
Feel free to contact us with any questions.