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​KYOGLE COURSE
​EMBODIED MINDFULNESS: Working Skilfully with Emotions
4 Monday evenings 5.30pm - 7.15pm
Starts 12th October 2020

Mindfulness is a technique for making our daily experience easier, better and more enjoyable. Have you noticed how, when life is difficult, you want to get rid of the blah stuff? We just want it to go away. The last thing we want to do it bring our attention to it. Strange as it seems, Mindfulness reduces discomfort by bringing attention to it, in a particular way. In this course we will explore how bringing attention to our experience can truly transform daily life and emotions. 

COURSE FEE $75 (concession $60)
 

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SESSION ONE 
MINDFULNESS OF THE BODY
 
How often are we aware of inhabiting the body? Or do we spend much of the time in our head? What do we do there? Is it helpful? Practising the skill of mindfully inhabiting the body is an eye-opener, so to speak. It reveals a lot about our ingrained, biologically-based habits. Perhaps we can discover some agency, some space and freedom. Mindfulness of the Body is first base for understanding the manner in which emotions make their impact.


SESSION TWO
MINDFULNESS OF THOUGHTS
 
Last week we discovered how seldom we inhabit the body. When stuck in our head, where are we? Are we usually taken away by emotions, our reactions and the stories we weave around them? How does emotion generate thought and what is the relationship between thought and emotion? Does it matter? What can we do about the compelling nature of thought? Is there a way to drop out of the whirlpool and find reliable ground?


SESSION THREE
EMOTIONS AND THE BODY (feelings)
 
When thoughts are accompanied by a strong charge, we experience them as an emotion. Emotions are powerful feelings of vulnerability or reactivity that we experience as SENSATION in the body. Our instinct is to pull away from the uncomfortable. We are hard-wired by the fight, flight and freeze functions of the nervous system that have developed through evolutionary biology. But does brute instinct keep us safe in social and personal situations? Why is the mind captivated by negative events and driven to negative interpretations?


​SESSION FOUR
MINDFULNESS OF BODY, SENSATIONS, THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS (emotions)
 
“What plays in the mind plays in the body” and vice versa. By now we are understanding the link between thought, emotion, the body and the nervous system. We realise how the hard-wired negativity bias drives thought and intensifies emotion. We notice the sensations caused by neurotransmitters of stress flooding the body. Importantly, we are learning to stay with the process. We are becoming familiar with staying present and investigating, instead of tuning out or running away. Perhaps it’s not as hard to do as we feared. Perhaps it’s actually supportive. Perhaps we’ve found a way to work with difficult experience and become more centred, whole and happy in the process.

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