Mindfulness Course The University Chaplains are taking bookings now from UG and PG students for a free forthcoming 8-week Mindfulness Course. The course will run from Wednesday 22nd October - Wednesday 10th December, 2.30-3.30pm on the Whiteknights campus. Email [email protected] to book, and for enquiries. Numbers are limited. What is Mindfulness? Mindfulness is a very simple form of meditation. Mindfulness helps you to the profound understanding that thoughts and feelings (including negative ones) are transient. They come and they go, and ultimately, you have a choice about whether to act on them or not. A typical meditation consists of focusing your full attention on your breath as it flows in and out of your body. Focusing on each breath in this way allows you to observe your thoughts as they arise in your mind and, little by little, to let go of struggling with them. Mindfulness does not require any religious commitment. What does the course involve? This is a guided course following the best-selling book and CD Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Finding Peace in a Frantic World by Oxford University psychologist Mark Williams and Danny Penman. Participants will need to buy the book themselves (typically around £8 on Amazon). Each weekly session will introduce the material to be practised independently in the following week. In order to benefit most, participants will need to commit to the full 8 weeks, and on a daily basis will be encouraged to practise the meditation techniques on their own that they have learnt together. For more general information about mindfulness see the accompanying website: franticworld/what-is-mindfulness/
Posted on: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 10:55:55 +0000
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