Meeting Emotions with Mindfulness

The road to emotional wellbeing and balance lies in navigating our emotional landscape with wisdom and compassion. The Science of Emotion is a fascinating area of study and when combined with mindfulness practice is the pathway to a full and enriching emotional life. Without awareness, we are frequently driven by emotion and inflict untold harm upon ourselves and others. With awareness, our emotions can operate as intended:  a guiding light and touchstone to help us navigate our world with authenticity and individuality.

This 4-week course is a rich combination of mindfulness and neuroscience providing tools to enable us to navigate our emotional life with skill and balance. Each week, we will focus on a central pillar of meditation: mindfulness, compassion, insight, wisdom.

We will discover how we can meet our most challenging emotions- like anger, disappointment, or fear, with acceptance and gentle care. Through practice we can come to hold our difficult emotions like a mother holding a crying baby - with tenderness and great care.

We will cultivate emotions that enrich our lives and expand our wellbeing - Awe, Gratitude and Joy. Emotions that we would all dearly wish to feel more off.

"Can we find a place in the middle, where one is neither overcome by emotion nor repressing emotional states? That is a place of discovery, exploration, and enrichment". Sharon Salzburg

Week One: Mindfulness- Name it to Tame it

The science of emotion, the wheel of emotions and emodiversity, labelling as a neuroscience tool and a mindfulness skill.

Week Two: Compassion -Tend and Befriend

Emotions as a physiological response, vagus nerve activation.

Week Three: Insight - The Seeing is the Doing

Discovering our habitual patterns, cognitive reframing

Week Four: Wisdom: Listening to the Message

Positive neuroplasticity.

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