The Triangle Of Mindful Awareness

Awareness is about sustaining a moment-by-moment focus of our thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations, and the surrounding environment. This is achieved by paying attention to whatever is occurring in the present moment in a compassionate and supportive way. Not trying to add or take anything away, just experiencing whatever is happening, be it good or not so good. It is impossible to remain fully aware 24/7, so we need to learn skills that allow us to keep returning to the here and now. This course will give you those skills. Each session you will learn new practices to add to your awareness toolbox, such as helping you deal with strong emotions, body sensations and thoughts. Being fully aware will help you reduce worry, stress, and anxiety. It will also help you be less reactive and more responsive and strengthen your emotional and psychological wellbeing.

Leçon 1: What is Mindful Awareness?

I am sure we have all experienced our mind suddenly wandering off to the past or leaping forward to the future. Usually at the most inopportune moments. So, how do we go about reining the mind in? Mindful awareness is the answer, it is a great way of helping us bring the mind back under our control. A mind left to wander can be a disruptive and destructive thing. In this session, we will learn the importance of mindful awareness and various daily practices.

Leçon 2: Thoughts Are Just Thoughts

We spend most of our day like a ping pong ball, bouncing from one thought to the other. If we are not careful, it can put us in the fight or flight mode, or at the very least, it makes us stressed, anxious, and overwhelmed. We need to change our relationship with our thoughts. In this session we will learn that thoughts are just a process of the brain and they have no power until we give them power. We will also learn several techniques to bring awareness to our thought process.

Leçon 3: Emotions Are Our Teachers

We usually try to fight our strong emotions, suppress them or get totally tangled up in them. None of these are going to be helpful. The more we fight against the emotion, the stronger it becomes. Acting this way, we will eventually make the emotion into our enemy. But emotions are not our enemies, they are our teachers. In this session we learn different ways to help us deal with emotions. This will help you find your triggers and find the reason why the emotion arose.

Leçon 4: Feel The Body With The Body

Mindfulness of body is a practice that involves being aware of the present moment, while paying close attention to the sensations and movements of the body. It is a way to bring the body and mind into unison and to gain greater control over our thoughts and emotions. This practice can lead to profound changes in how we view and interact with our environment and ourselves. In this session you will gain a full understanding of how you can bring your awareness to the body.

Reviews

This is a wonderful course, thank you so much. I'm going to repeat it all, often!

A very helpful lesson in recognizing thoughts and emotions and how to deal with them through awareness and being aware of the body.

Excellent teaching, thank you! I appreciate the different techniques offered - I listened to each session multiple times to better integrate and understand the different practices. The “thought diffusion” (or de-fusion?) practice has been especially helpful for me. Thank you! 🙏

This is probably the most practical course I have ever followed on Insight Timer. Each episode is full of resources and inspiration for building concrete healthy habits which aim to connect oneself more to the present moment.
I will definitely refer to these audios for as long as it takes to integrate them in my daily routines.
I feel very grateful for this gift. Namaste!

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Great concise overview of working with thoughts, emotions and sensations to develop a more objective perspective of ourselves and our environment!

So many helpful suggestions to help with anxiety. Thank you!

Plain-spoken guidance for building your practice delivered in a friendly and caring tone.

Very informative and excellent techniques!
Thank you very much for this course! Very grateful!

Wonderful course that provides foundational knowledge on mindfulness awareness. I will be repeating the audios several times to help with my practice.

Also, my therapist taught me the anchor method, and I was surprised yet happy to see it integrated in an audio on Insight Timer. It was an extremely helpful method during challenging times.

Thank you for this course - you have a gift for teaching. I appreciate your voice, your kind demeanor and your wonderful clarity!
I have listened 3x this past week and I'm sure I will be back to continue to glean from the lessons and excercises. I am a fan and will be following you. Thank you kindly!
Christine

I have repeated each session several times, and will return to the course. It has been extremely helpful to me. Thank you so much for this special support. Namaste.

This is a wonderful beginner's course (which is exactly what I am) and it dovetails wonderfully with 'A Beginners Guide to Mindfulness' audiobook that has really been my first intro to the practice. For this course I listened to each segment (i.e. Segment 1) each day for three or four days until I felt I had fully grasped the concept and had had a chance to practice some of the ideas before moving on to the next segment. I've only just listened to the last one but will listen to it again for the next few days, and then I plan to listen to the entire course again in a single sitting to bring it all together fresh and with wholeness as a concept. On a personal note, I really appreciate the gentle humor that flows these sessions. This is a wonderful teacher and I cant wait for his next course.

A great course on the foundations of mindfulness, with good practical hints and description of practices. Thank you 🙏

An excellent course that goes in to a lot of detail about how to use mindfulness. The exercises are easy to use and very useful. This is an ideal course for new comers to the app and people who have studied mindfulness before and want a refresher.