be mindful a national campaign by the mental health foundation
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Be MindfulA national campaign by the Mental Health Foundation
www.bemindful.co.ukwww.wellmindmedia.com
Campaign Web Site
Campaign Web Site
Database of Mindfulness Courses
Social Media
Mindfulness On-lineMental Health Foundation
www.bemindful.co.ukwww.wellmindmedia.com
Online Mindfulness Course
Web Site
Perceived Stress Test
Online Meditation
Breathing Space
Mindfulness Assignments
Downloads Library
BREATHWORKS & MINDFULNESS
Training in arriving in present moment over & over
&Profoundly changing relationship with
pain/fatigue/illness/ dis-ease
MINDFULNESS COURSES
PROGRAMME MODULES• Breath Awareness • 3 ‘formal’ mindfulness meditations
– Body Scan, – Mindfulness of Breathworks, – Kindly Awareness
• Mindful Movement • Mindfulness in Daily Life
– Pacing – 3 minute breathing space
• General Mindfulness Training– Mindfulness of Thoughts & Emotions– Mindfulness of World– Mindfulness of Others
MATERIALS
• Handbook • 3 CDs
MINDFUL MOVEMENT
BREATHWORKS INTERNET COURSES
PRACTICES FOR ESTABLISHING MINDFULNESS
– 4 Ways of Establishing Mindfulness
– Body – Sensations (feelings)– Thoughts and emotions – including mood and
tendencies of heart/mind– how to become free of reactive behaviour
overcome suffering!
BREATHWORKS & MINDFULNESS
How do we use mindfulness as a health care intervention at Breathworks?
• Training in working wisely & compassionately with the difficult side of life in each present moment
• This is the place of freedom we can’t change the past – the future has not arrivedMindfulness is a middle-way between:
• suppression of present moment experience & • compulsively reacting to present moment
BREATHWORKS & MINDFULNESS
When living with pain/illness/difficulty the problem = sufferingTendency to be dominated by unpleasant side of life
Experienced as an overall ‘mass’ of suffering.
General tone of difficulty, loss, frustration, weariness etc
Training is to investigate with clarity, kindness and mindfulness one’s actual experience and make important discovery
BREATHWORKS & MINDFULNESS
Pain/difficulty can be divided into two levels:
PRIMARY SUFFERING = basic unpleasant sensations.
SECONDARY SUFFERING = REACTIONS
All the ways we say “I don’t want this” – mentally, emotionally, physically.
BREATHWORKS & MINDFULNESS
Primary suffering Secondary suffering
RESISTANCE AND RESENTMENT of Primary suffering = cause of Secondary suffering
PRIMARY SUFFERING -
Basic Unpleasant sensations
RESISTANCE
SECONDARY SUFFERING – Mental, emotional & physical reactions
SECONDARY SUFFERING – Mental, emotional & physical reactions
MANIFESTS AS EITHER
BLOCKING DROWNING ‘flip-flop’ between blocking & drowning
BLOCKING• hardening against unpleasant
sensations • restlessness• inability to ‘stop’ • feeling driven• addictions of all kinds, e.g. • emotionally brittle and edgy• anxiety• anger and irritability• denial • being ‘in head’, not body• overly controlling
DROWNING• feeling overwhelmed by unpleasant sensations• exhaustion• physical inactivity and loss of function, weakening of muscles
etc• giving up• lack of interest – vagueness • being emotionally dull and passive• depression• self-pity and victim mentality• tendency to catastrophise and loss of perspective• dominated by physical experience• loss of initiative – withdrawal - isolation
PRIMARY SUFFERING -
Basic Unpleasant sensations
MINDFULNESS HELPS ACCEPT
RESISTANCEMINDFLNESS SOFTENS / DISSOLVES
SECONDARY SUFFERING – Mental, emotional & physical reactions
MINDFULNESS HELPS REDUCE / OVERCOME