Stress Less, Drink Less - by Rory Kinsella

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Stress Less, Drink Less

With Rory Kinsella

This mini course will help you change your relationship with alcohol through the power of meditation. It will teach you a simple technique that will give you a new way to relax and empower you to break habits. The lessons go for 15 minutes and work with a mantra-based technique from the Vedic tradition. Through the program, you will: - Build a solid foundation of calm, so you need alcohol less - Learn how to relax naturally - Break habits - Gain more awareness of your drinking - Build better self-control - Lessen the desire to drink Don’t judge your success by how well you think you are doing in the meditations, but rather by how they are making you feel outside of meditation. Do you feel calmer? Do you feel more in control? Can you silence the instant gratification monkey and instead empower the wise monkey within? Lesson 1: Diving in Lesson 2: Surfing the waves of thoughts Lesson 3: The anchor Lesson 4: Diving deep Lesson 5: The subtle art of not trying Lesson 6: You get what you need Lesson 7: What you've learned


Meet your Teacher

Rory Kinsella is a writer and Vedic Meditation teacher based in Sydney, Australia. A former hard-drinking musician and journalist, he quit alcohol in 2017 and has written widely about his experiences, including in the Sydney Morning Herald. He is the creator of the Wise Monkey Way program to help people change their relationship with alcohol through meditation, has contributed meditations to apps such as Insight Timer and Meditation Studio and has taught meditation at some of Australia’s biggest companies. He teaches an effortless style of meditation using a mantra that allows the mind to move beyond thoughts to a place of stillness within.

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7 Days

1.1k students

4.7 stars

15 min / day

Addiction

English


Lesson 1

Diving in

Many people drink to reduce stress and with less stress in your systems you will have less need for that drink at the end of a hard day. This lesson will show you a simple and powerful technique to help start offloading stress. Find somewhere comfortable to sit with your back supported.

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Lesson 2

Surfing the Waves of Thoughts

While you approach silence in meditation, you will often find yourself thinking. This meditation will teach you how to surf the waves of thoughts to build confidence in your practice.

Lesson 3

The Anchor

It helps to think of the mantra as an anchor for awareness during meditation. Inside your mind you don’t control many things but you do occasionally have control of your awareness and where you direct it. In these moments of clarity where you find yourself in control, it helps to direct your awareness back to the anchor of the mantra.

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Lesson 4

Diving Deep

This lesson will explain how the technique allows you to dive deep, below the surface of everyday experience. This will let you catch up on rest, give you more energy and access deeper parts of your consciousness.

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Lesson 5

The Subtle Art of Not Trying

We will refine the mantra technique, showing how cultivating an attitude of effortlessness will help you reach deeper states of meditation and give a more satisfying experience.

Lesson 6

You Get What You Need

In this session, we will cover how to accept the experience you get in meditation and acknowledge you’re not in control. It’s about letting go and allowing the experience to unfold.

Lesson 7

What You've Learned

You’ve learned how the mantra lets you dive below the regular surface of awareness. You’ve learned how to surf the waves of thoughts, it helps if you don’t mind when you fall off. You have an anchor for your awareness and the more effortlessly you think it, the less you try, the deeper you will dive. Ultimately you have learned that the meditation experience you get is the one you need and not to worry what happens.

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4.7 (28)

Recent Reviews

John

May 3, 2023

A well thought out program and Rory seemed to bring up hints at just the right time.

Todd

April 24, 2023

Thank you for teaching me to be more laid back about my practice.

Renee

March 16, 2023

Thank you for a wonderful course! So many great ideas and different ways to think about things!!

Janet

March 8, 2023

Excellent course. I appreciate how the teacher gives a bit of guidance at the beginning and a little wrap up at the end but also leaves a lot of time for silent meditation instead of talking through the whole session. A very valuable course

leo

March 1, 2023

Thank you so very much 🙏☮��🧘🏽‍♀️🌹

Kenny

February 26, 2023

Vary strate forward.

Joan

February 22, 2023

Thank you. I feel empowered.

lauscher

February 19, 2023

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