Week 1
Introduction to Mindfulness
Practice: Mindfulness of the Body
The dark thought, the shame, the malice.
meet them at the door laughing and invite them in.
Rumi
This Week...
- What brings you here?
- Introduction to the Course:
- what it is, what it's not;
- what we will do each week: check in on formal and informal;
- resources: blog, guided meditations, homework;
- What is Mindfulness? ...and why practice it?
- What is NOT Mindfulness?
- (S.T.O.P. exercise for home practice)
- "The Guest House" by Rumi
- Mindfulness of the body
- Setting an Intention
Practicing at Work and Home
- Forget everything you know about meditation...you don't need to think about whether you're doing it 'right'.
- Formal practice: Do the body awareness meditation at least 3 times or more before the next class (15 minutes). Decide when you're going to do this.
- Informal practice: Choose one activity you do at least once a day, and do it with awareness. For example, throughout the day every time you...walk down the hall at work...hear a phone ring...eat dinner...shave...stop at a red light...wait for a train...floss your teeth...Decide!
