Lesson 1
My Mindfulness Story
This course introduction shares a personal story about my mindfulness journey. It explains the benefits of mindfulness beyond temporary relaxation. It highlights 3 key elements: understanding the motivation behind practicing mindfulness, staying present with the object of meditation, and cultivating the right mindset to guide your responses. It emphasizes applying mindfulness in daily life, not just during meditation.
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Lesson 2
Deciding Your Direction: In The Meditation Room
This lesson explores motivation as a compass for meditation. It teaches you how to find a deeper motivation for meditation and live more intentionally. It guides you to identify your "why" for meditating, which will help you determine what to focus on. It includes reflective prompts that can be used before, during, and after meditation, helping you stay connected with your motives. These prompts help you gain clarity about your motives before each session, assess if your motivation is realistic during the session, and reflect afterward on its impact.
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Lesson 3
Deciding Your Direction: In Daily Life
This lesson teaches how to integrate the element of motivation into daily life. It suggests a 3-step process. First, you'll learn to set morning intentions for qualities you want to embody, desired feelings, and key actions. This will help you stay aligned with your goals and live your life purposefully without making major changes to your busy schedule. Then, it includes reflective prompts for engaging in activities throughout the day. Finally, you will reflect at night on your motivations and how they impacted your day.
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Lesson 4
Staying On The Trail: In The Meditation Room
This lesson compares meditation to a hike. Your focus (breath, mantra, etc.) is the path, and distractions are like scenic detours. If you struggle with thoughts like "Am I doing this right?", this lesson highlights the basic mindfulness process along with how to deal with any obstacles, helping you navigate the process with more ease. It provides prompts for reflection before, during, and after meditation to help you regain focus and then stay focused. These prompts guide you to identify what distracts you, enabling you to gently bring your focus back to your anchor point (breath, mantra, etc.).
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Lesson 5
Staying On The Trail: In Daily Life
This lesson involves practical suggestions to incorporate the element of "being" into your daily life. It provides morning and night reflection prompts. We'll also explore daily practices that can be easily included in a busy life to train your attention to be more focused. It also includes prompts to reflect on your attention throughout the day to help identify patterns and cultivate present-moment awareness. Finally, it shares a process of being present with your inner world and coping with challenging times.
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Lesson 6
Embracing The Journey: Maya's Story
This lesson explores the importance of mindset in our daily life using the story of a girl named Maya and her dad, who go on a hiking journey. It highlights qualities like a beginner's mind, curiosity, gratitude, and non-striving to enhance the experience of meditation and daily life. Acceptance, patience, non-reactivity, and non-judgment are emphasized to navigate challenges with grace. Kindness, common humanity, and trust foster a sense of connection with oneself and the world.
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Lesson 7
Embracing The Journey: 11 Mindset Assessment
This lesson offers prompts to evaluate whether you incorporate each of the 11 mindsets in your mindfulness practice and daily life. The 11 mindsets discussed are: beginner's mind, curiosity, non-striving, letting go, kindness, patience, acceptance, non-judgment, gratitude, trust, and common humanity. If you lack a particular mindset, this lesson offers sample statements for each mindset that you can incorporate before starting meditation or your day to cultivate it in your practice and daily life.
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Lesson 8
Embracing The Journey: Guided Meditation For Difficult Emotions
This final lesson guides you through a meditation to address difficult emotions using the different mindsets mentioned in the previous lesson. The meditation helps you: Identify a recent situation and the emotion it triggered. Accept the emotion without judgment. Let go of unhelpful thought patterns. Feel the emotion with curiosity and patience. Trust your ability to handle the emotion. Recognize the universality of emotions. Offer kindness and compassion to yourself. Express gratitude for the experience. You can use this meditation repeatedly to help you respond mindfully & process your emotions.
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