Mindfulness & Meditation

What is Mindfulness?

“Mindfulness is awareness, cultivated by paying attention in a sustained and particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally.”

~ Jon Kabat-Zinn

I am offering:

Individual Mindfulness sessions

Group Mindfulness sessions

for all various age groups: young children, adolescents/teenagers, adults as well as seniors.

Group Mindfulness sessions

for Health-Care Professionals, Teachers, First Responders, Real Estate professionals and other professional groups & teams that would benefit from learning practical tools and strategies to be applied in daily life as well as in professional activities – developing stress-relief, effective communication, team cohesion and internal balance.

Benefits for introducing mindfulness meditation practice into your life:

Positively affects the brain patterns underlying day-to-day anxiety, stress, depression and irritability; it is a method of mental training

Learning valuable aspects about how the mind works

Liberating the mind from the pressures of time

Creating greater mental clarity

Memory improvement, faster reaction times, increase of mental and physical stamina

Reducing the key indicators of chronic stress

Befriending your thinking vs suppressing or ‘stopping your mind’

Long-term changes in mood and levels of happiness and well-being

Helps cultivating a deep and compassionate awareness

Summary/examples of the mindfulness meditations offered:

Lidia Damian - Benefits of Mindfulness and meditation

Sources:
✓ Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD – developer of Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR)
✓ Mark Williams, PhD, and Danny Penman, PhD – developers of Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT)

Breath and Body meditation – exploring the ‘automatic pilot’ or the thoughts and patterns repeated every day at home or at work and encourages exploration of what happens when you ‘wake up’ and re-train our thoughts.

Body scan mindfulness-meditation – exploring the difference between thinking about a sensation and feeling or experiencing it. Understanding the difference between ‘living in our head’ and experiencing our senses.

Colour meditation – exploring visualization of various colours and your ability to either see, hear, feel or know colours and their calming, relaxing effect.

Sounds and Thoughts meditation – understanding your thoughts as events that come and go just like sounds or just like feelings – seeing them, observing them come and go with awareness and a different perspective.

Exploring Difficulties meditation – learning how to face rather than avoid difficulties arising in day to day life with a spirit of curiosity and compassion.

Loving-Kindness meditation – exploring how negative thoughts can gradually be reduced and dissipated when you cultivate loving-kindness and compassion and acts of generosity and gratitude.

Mindfulness & Meditation

What is Mindfulness?

“Mindfulness is awareness, cultivated by paying attention in a sustained and particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally.”

~ Jon Kabat-Zinn

I am offering:

Individual Mindfulness sessions

Group Mindfulness sessions

for all various age groups: young children, adolescents/teenagers, adults as well as seniors.

Group Mindfulness sessions

Benefits for introducing mindfulness meditation practice into your life:

Summary/examples of the mindfulness meditations offered:

Breath and Body meditation – exploring the ‘automatic pilot’ or the thoughts and patterns repeated every day at home or at work and encourages exploration of what happens when you ‘wake up’ and re-train our thoughts.

Body scan mindfulness-meditation – exploring the difference between thinking about a sensation and feeling or experiencing it. Understanding the difference between ‘living in our head’ and experiencing our senses.

Colour meditation – exploring visualization of various colours and your ability to either see, hear, feel or know colours and their calming, relaxing effect.

Sounds and Thoughts meditation – understanding your thoughts as events that come and go just like sounds or just like feelings – seeing them, observing them come and go with awareness and a different perspective.

Exploring Difficulties meditation – learning how to face rather than avoid difficulties arising in day to day life with a spirit of curiosity and compassion.

Loving-Kindness meditation – exploring how negative thoughts can gradually be reduced and dissipated when you cultivate loving-kindness and compassion and acts of generosity and gratitude.

Psychotherapy

Energy Medicine