How conditioning and perception shape our experience. By practicing mindfulness, we cultivate curiosity and openness to the full range of experience and through this process cultivate a more flexible attentional capacity.
We learn new ways to relate to stressful moments and events, whether external or internal. We can explore of mindfulness as a means of reducing the negative effects of automatic habitual stress reactivity as well as the development of more effective ways of responding positively and proactively to stressful situations and experiences.
Home Practice
- Alternate Body Scan with Lying-down Yoga every other day, at least 6 times.
- Sitting Meditation (with breath, body, sounds) at least 6 times for 20 minutes.
- Be aware of stress reactions and behaviours (e.g., feeling stuck, blocking, numbing, and shutting off) the moment it happens, without trying to change them.
