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How To Practice Presence For Relief From Anxiety & Stress

With Corin Bryant

Experience immediate relief from the symptoms of Anxiety & Stress with this highly engaging course on the practice of Presence. This four-week course delivers both the principles and practical application of Presence that empowers you to take control of your mental and emotional wellbeing. This course progressively develops the practice of Presence to ensure it becomes established permanently, including daily guided meditations, advice on using Presence for emotional regulation and development of a more inwardly peaceful way of being. This course includes daily guided meditations as well as practical exercises to perform on a daily basis. The teacher is highly responsive and available to interact in the classroom to support you through any questions and difficulties that arise.

Developing presence to relieve the symptoms of anxiety & stress.

15 Days

99 students

5.0 stars

20 min / day

English

About this course

Meet your Teacher

Corin Bryant

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Exmouth, UK

Corin recovered from anxiety, stress, depression, addiction, and obesity and now shares the principles and techniques he used to facilitate this profound transformation to a happier, healthier life. The practice of Presence was a pivotal shift in his approach to life; the increased conscious awareness of the inner world that Presence provided paved the way for his deep recovery and permanent changes to body & mind, he now coaches this powerful principle so that others can experience the same radical improvement to mental & emotional wellbeing too. His style is practical, informal and down to earth as he endeavors to make mindfulness meditation a practice accessible to all, using as little technical or spiritual language as possible and instead focusing on delivering practicable pointers useable in the real-world that lead to rapid development of peace even during busy modern life. Corin is known for his light-hearted, motivational and inspiring style that is delivered from a place of hard-lived experience rather than theoretical book learning.

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15 Days

99 students

5.0 stars

20 min / day

English

Lesson 1

Introduction To The Course

A short introduction giving a basic overview of what presence is as well as explaining the structure of the course. Included is a very brief explanation of my background as well as a description of what each weeks lesson and practice will contain.

Lesson 2

Some Notes On The Morning Meditations

An introduction to the daily meditation practices that you practice each morning while completing this course. I explain why we choose to meditate in the morning, the primary benefits of meditation, and give some practical advice regarding meditation posture and environment.

Lesson 3

Week 1 Principles - What Is Presence & How Does It Relieve Anxiety & Stress?

In this lesson, we begin the process of deeply introspecting into the present moment and already start to discover the benefits. In this lesson, we start the practice properly, and you will start to feel relief from your symptoms immediately. This lesson is an explanation of the principle of Presence with details on why this practice is so effective for alleviating the symptoms of anxiety & stress.

Lesson 4

Week 1 Practices - Focusing On The Breath As The Gateway To Presence

This lesson outlines the initial techniques for centering and grounding yourself in the present moment, beginning with the classic method of focusing on the sensations of breathing. This lesson is both an explanation of how to practice this and why it is effective.

Lesson 5

Week 1 Daily Guided Meditation - Focusing On The Breath

This is the daily meditation to perform for the next 7 days upon waking up. This meditation is based on the principles and practices outlined in the lessons this week and will deeply establish the power of presence. Practice this meditation with sincerity, focus, and commitment, and you will feel the benefit immediately.

Lesson 6

Week 2 Principles - Embodying Presence

This week we will develop the presence established in Week 1 by including the totality of bodily sensations alongside the breath. In this lesson, I explain a little further the principle of neutrality and non-reactivity. Here we develop the experienced knowledge that consciousness itself does not have opinions or interpretations; it is simply the awareness of what is.

Lesson 7

Week 2 Practices - Embodying Presence In Daily Life

This lesson is dedicated to the practice of embodied presence. The ability to be fully conscious and present with the entire body, not just the breath, and to use these sensations as the gateway into presence. Through neutral, nonreactive awareness of the body, we can establish an unshakeable anchor point into the Now.

Lesson 8

Week 2 Daily Guided Meditation - Conscious Awareness Of The Body

The second of the weekly guided meditations: Practice this meditation daily on waking throughout this week. This meditation is based on the 'Embodied Presence' principle and practices outlined in the lessons.

Lesson 9

Week 3 Principles - Staying Conscious & Present With Strong Emotions

This lesson explains the principles of Affect Labelling & Emotional Distress Tolerance as methods for remaining conscious and present during strong emotions. Essentially, this is the practice of presence for emotional self-regulation.

Lesson 10

Week 3 Practices 1 - Affect Labelling (Name It To Tame It)

This lesson gives an overview of how to practice Affect Labelling in daily life with some examples. Contained in this lesson are some brief moments of invitation into beginning this practice. By the end of this lesson, you will understand both why this practice is effective and also begin to experience the benefit for yourself.

Lesson 11

Week 3 Practices 2 - Emotional Distress Tolerance (Feel It To Heal It)

This lesson is a detailed outline of how to practice emotional distress tolerance. Once we have practiced Affect Labelling to identify the emotion, we then apply neutral, nonreactive awareness to accept and allow the emotion to be as it is.

Lesson 12

Week 3 Daily Guided Meditation - Staying Present With Strong Emotions

This is the daily guided meditation for week 3. Beginning with grounding and centering, becoming consciously aware of the inner emotional world before applying the principle of affect labelling and then moving into distress tolerance.

Lesson 13

Week 4 Principles - Acceptance (Let Everything Be As It Already Is)

This lesson explains the principle of acceptance, both what it means and how it alleviates anxiety & stress. I place particular emphasis on the understanding that acceptance doesn't make you passive or irresponsible in life: Accepting life on life's terms includes taking action where necessary while letting go of the things you can't control.

Lesson 14

Week 4 Practices - Accepting Now

In this lesson, I give some examples of how acceptance can be practiced in daily life and give further clarification on how this principle empowers you and emboldens you to take action while simultaneously experiencing the total relief from anxiety & stress that letting go provides.

Lesson 15

Week 4 Daily Guided Meditation - Acceptance

This week's daily guided morning meditation is an invitation to let go of your usual troubles and struggles, beginning by accepting everything in the present moment before expanding conscious awareness to include all of the problems in the mind. Feel free to continue these meditations beyond the time frame of the course.