Mindfulness Now Meditation means you’re focusing on being in the moment, no matter what you are doing in that moment.
‘Let a person maintain their mindfulness all the while they are awake, whether they are standing, walking, sitting, or lying down’.
Each day, your mind will try to wander on its own controlling how you think, feel, and act. But by being mindful we can train ourselves to live in the present moment to handle obstacles with a clear mind to help us live our best lives.
Mindfulness means ‘Awareness’
When suffering from physical pain, chronic illness, traumatic injury, emotional stress we are all to aware of our suffering.
Why would you want to learn to be mindful to become even more aware of what you are going through learning techniques to make you aware you have pain.
Well-being
Mindfulness Now techniques are a practice of talking that focuses on learning how to be more aware of thoughts, feelings, emotions, surrounding, and situations, to reduce automatic responses.
The technique is to achieve a state of alert, focused relaxation by deliberately paying attention to thoughts and sensations without judgement. This allows the mind to refocus on the present moment by developing the ability to cultivate having a non-judging mind, patience, beginner’s mind, trust, non-striving, acceptance, letting go, gratitude and generosity, we can become truly mindful consciously integrating nine attitudes to improve everyday life in a variety of ways.
Benefits
- Focusing on becoming fully engaged in day-to-day life.
- Creates a greater capacity to deal with adverse events, focusing on the here and now.
- Everyday practice of mindfulness people find less likely to worry about problems/issues, about the future, regrets of the past and less preoccupied with concerns about success and self-esteem.
- Better connections with others.
Improves physical health
Scientists have discovered that mindfulness techniques help improve physical health in a number of ways.
- Practicing mindfulness can help relieve stress
- Help to lower blood pressure
- Help heart disease
- Reduce chronic pain
- Improve sleep
- Alleviate gastrointestinal difficulties
- Improved health and wellbeing
- Rapport and communication
- Greater confidence and self-esteem
- Ability to have better quality sleep
- Improved work-life balance
- Memory enhancement
- Intuitive ability
- Improved relationships
- Clarity and focus
Mindfulness Improves Mental Health
In recent years, psychotherapists have turned to mindfulness meditation as an important element in the treatment of several problems which include: –
- Depression
- Substance abuse.
- Eating disorders.
- Anxiety disorders
- Obsessive compulsive disorder
The Mindfulness Now Programme
The programme is cultivated through mindfulness meditation a systematic method of focusing your attention. The benefit from doing the eight-week programme is the support and instruction to learn how to meditate. You will have recordings of the meditations to guide you and have me to answer questions and help you stay motivated.
Eight-week programme takes you through week-by-week step by step techniques to practice mindfulness with full support.
You will learn how to do formal meditation at a time you select to do your daily practice and you will be taught how to breathe, listen to your breath, or find a mantra and repeat silently.
Non-formal meditation is for example, watching a kettle boil, eating more slowly, showering etc.
Gentle breathing with gentle movement
Meditation on body sensations and how to notice subtle body sensations for an example tingling, where is your pain, your discomfort from head to toe.
Sounds
Sensory, noticing taste, smells, touch, sight and learn to not judge or become fully aware.
Emotions
To allow the emotions to be present without fear or judgment.
Practice to relax naming emotions, ‘joy anger, frustration’ To accept the presence of the emotions without judgement and learning how to let them go.
Urge surfing
Coping with cravings, (for addictive substances or behaviours, sitting with them and allowing them to pass.
Teaching how to notice how you body feels as the craving enters and learning how to accept the craving and the knowledge that it will subside.
The History of Mindfulness
Mindfulness meditation draws upon the 2,500-year legacy of mindfulness teaching within Buddhism.
Mindfulness these days is getting to be known and practiced all over the world. There is excellent scientific research and proven methodologies of mindfulness working and helping people in their everyday life.
Research has shown the meditation techniques to be helpful for people who have a tendency to be depressed, live with past trauma or worry constantly about future events.
Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) developed in 1990 by Dr Jon Kabat-Zinn at the University of Massachusetts, was a pioneering integration of mindfulness meditation practices for group sessions only with an eight programme. Dr Mark Williams and colleagues at the University of Oxford and subsequently at Bangor University Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT).
The founder of the UK College, Nick Cooke, based the original ‘Mindfulness Now’ training programme around his own considerable experience of using mindfulness to help him with recovery and rehabilitation following two serious illnesses.
Mindfulness Now’ programme which integrates key elements of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT). They bring the art and science of mindfulness meditation together with evidence-based healing and wellbeing programmes.
