Forming Healthy Habits With Meditation - by Helen Pengelly

COURSE

Forming Healthy Habits With Meditation

With Helen Pengelly

Creating new habits can feel difficult, especially when old patterns are deeply ingrained. But change is possible. In this course, you’ll learn how meditation helps rewire the brain, increase self-awareness, and create space between impulse and action. Through simple, practical techniques, you’ll begin to shift from automatic behaviors to conscious choices. With patience, consistency, and self-compassion, you’ll discover how small moments of awareness can lead to lasting, meaningful change.


Meet your Teacher

Helen is an accredited coach, EFT practitioner and meditation teacher. In 2006 after attending a meditation workshop she felt a calm like never before. She joined a meditation class led by very experienced Buddhist teachers. There were no apps back then. She went on her first retreat in 2009. Since 2011 she’s been volunteering at retreat centres where she spends about 2 months each year and hangs out with some of the best Buddhist teachers. She qualified as a coach in 2014 and has been teaching and leading meditations since 2015. Helen uses what she’s learned through difficult life experiences to help others be happy whatever. She uses her own unique blend of coaching, mindfulness, intuitive and spiritual powers and EFT. She’s passionate about helping you heal from your past and live the life you’re here to enjoy. She lived by the coast in Sussex, UK for many years and is currently living a homeless lifestyle on a spiritual journey.

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5 Days

6 students

No ratings

4 min / day

Healing

English


Lesson 1

Breaking Autopilot: Building Awareness of Habits

Most habits run unconsciously, before you even realise what you’re doing. In this module, you’ll begin developing awareness of your thoughts, emotions, and impulses. Through meditation, you’ll start noticing the “gap” between trigger and action, giving you the first opportunity to choose differently.

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Lesson 2

Rewiring the Brain: Strengthening Self-Control

Meditation doesn’t just feel good, it changes your brain. In this module, you’ll explore how meditation strengthens the prefrontal cortex, improving focus, decision-making, and self-control. You’ll learn why starting with one habit at a time is key, and how consistent practice builds lasting change.

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Lesson 3

Reducing Reactivity: Calming Stress Responses

Stress is one of the biggest drivers of unhealthy habits. In this module, you’ll learn how meditation reduces emotional reactivity and calms the nervous system. By increasing your tolerance for discomfort, you’ll become less likely to act on impulse and more able to respond with intention.

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Lesson 4

The Power of Noticing: Training Your Attention

Every time you notice your mind wandering and return to the present moment, you’re strengthening a powerful skill. This module focuses on building the habit of noticing, the foundation of all behaviour change. Awareness comes first; change follows naturally.

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Lesson 5

Identity Shift: Becoming the Person You Want to Be

Lasting change comes from shifting how you see yourself. In this final module, you’ll explore how meditation helps reshape your identity, from someone stuck in old patterns to someone capable of growth and choice. By imagining and embodying this new version of yourself, your habits begin to align naturally.

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