Thoughts And Meditation: A Beginner's Guide - by Lise Amaniou

COURSE

Thoughts And Meditation: A Beginner's Guide

With Lise Amaniou

This 5-day course aims to help beginners and experienced practitioners understand the role of thoughts in meditation, offering practical strategies to embrace and make peace with them. Students will learn to welcome thoughts without getting entangled, simplify their mental narratives, and discern facts from mental fabrications. Through daily practices, they will celebrate the full spectrum of human experience, fostering a deeper sense of presence and clarity.

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Meet your Teacher

Lise Amaniou
Gothenburg, Sweden

As a meditation teacher, Lise has her heart set on shifting the paradigm of these practices. Instead of reducing them to well-being techniques, she explores the aliveness and radicality of their philosophy. She's also attentive to how the practice can allow us to better consider both our existence and the great challenges of our society.

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5 Days

105 students

4.9 stars

11 min / day

Acceptance

English

Lesson 1

Welcoming Thoughts With Open Arms: The Starting Point

In our inaugural session, we'll discover the transformative power of welcoming our thoughts with open arms. Instead of viewing thoughts as distractions to be eliminated, we'll learn to treat them as guests in the mansion of our mind. Through gentle practice, we'll cultivate a sense of spaciousness that allows for both presence and thought.

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Lesson 2

Soothing The Storyteller: Unburduning Thoughts And Simplifying The Practice

In this lesson, we'll explore the tendency to create stories around our thoughts and how to gently let go of the narrative. By embracing simplicity and kindness, we'll discover the freedom that comes from releasing the need to control or analyze our thoughts.

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Lesson 3

Seeing Through The Fog: Cultivating Clarity

In this lesson, we'll investigate the nature of our thoughts and discern fact from fiction. Through gentle inquiry and observation, we'll cultivate clarity and discernment, allowing us to see our thoughts with greater accuracy and compassion.

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Lesson 4

Honoring The Dance Of Thoughts: Life Shining Through

In this session, we'll celebrate the richness and diversity of our thoughts and emotions. Rather than viewing them as obstacles, we'll embrace them as essential elements of our human experience, allowing them to flow freely as we cultivate a deeper sense of presence.

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Lesson 5

The Symphony Of Presence: Putting Everything Together

Finally, we'll explore the essence of meditation practice: presence. By piecing together all the previous practices and incorporating them into a fundamental practice, we'll learn to anchor ourselves in the experience, letting go of striving and simply sitting.

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4.9 (9)

Recent Reviews

Paulo

July 18, 2024

What a wonderful course! Thank you. I will be listening to this more times.

Anthony

July 2, 2024

Thank you. Your tempo of speech and ideas was perfect. Your thoughts were appropriately clear and concise and easy to absorb. I am grateful.

Anne

June 26, 2024

Great introduction to mindfulness and meditation. Exercises are ones you can make part of your daily routine

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