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Great day, yesterday!
Delivered two "Introduction to Mindfulness" -Marc style- training courses for about 45 staff of a Southeast QLD State Primary School on their pupil-free day.
I'm thinking of running this course (about 3 hours) for the general public, either face-to-face, or online.
If anyone is interested already, let me know, and I'll put you on the list. I may run this sooner than you think!
I would say this course is a must-do if you want to get a grip on stress, anxiety, overwhelm, insecurity and other 'negative' emotions. And, obviously, if you want to know a bit more about mindfulness from a slightly different point of view (i.e. mine).
#Mindfulness #SimplifyingLife #Counsellor
I'm currently in a 3-day lockdown period. Which is not a lot, in the grand scheme of things.
Some people asked me: don't you have a problem with that? This question made me think about something I've heard so often, and feel to be quite true: things are only problems when we make them problems. Otherwise, they're just 'situations'.
This is not meant as disrespect towards people who are going through a tough time! Please understand me correctly. There are obviously situations that most of us can agree on are pretty horrible, and there are many subtleties to the approach I am discussing. It's not as black and white as it sounds; the underlying principle is sound, I feel: if we have the capacity to accept "what is", it is no longer a "problem".
What many of us tend to do, though, is resist an unwanted situation; fight it; kick at it; try and kill it; or run away from it; hide from it. This becomes an additional issue; so now you have TWO: the original one, PLUS the resistance you created against it.
If we can learn to work on accepting our current situation "as it is", then we can also learn to let go of the "problematic" nature of it. That allows us to work towards either an acceptance of "what is" (perhaps because it cannot be changed right now), or a resolution to the issue (which is highly effective), rather than adding another layer of misery on top (our resistance against "what is").
Mindfulness and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy are all about FIRST "leaning towards" what is (rather than away from) the current situation, and SECOND finding the most effective attitude or behaviour in relation to that situation. Viktor Frankl, and so many others, are prime examples of that approach. Things can be pretty dire, but with the right attitude we at least can work on NOT making it worse, and potentially on making it better.
So, no, I don't see my 3 days in my cabin as problematic. They're not my preferred way of spending 72 hours, but if that's my current situation, so be it.
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It's Not a Problem If You Don't Make It One | Simplifying Life
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I'm currently in a 3-day lockdown period. Which is not a lot, in the grand scheme of things.Some people asked me: don't you have a problem with that? This qu...How to Minimise Suffering by Re-assigning Meaning | Simplifying Life.
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Lesson 2 of A Course in Miracles states: "I have given everything I see ... all the meaning that it has for me".
(Post-)modern psychology agrees that we are meaning-making machines. We assign meaning to everything and everyone.
This is great when we assign positive meaning to things and people; it leads to suffering when we assign negative meaning to them, and feel 'bad' about what has happened.
If WE are the ones who assign meaning to everything and everyone, we can then also re-assign meaning to the events and people in our lives if our current meaning creates suffering in us.
This video talks about this process: re-assigning meaning to minimise (or even eliminate) suffering.
#Suffering #Meaning #SimplifyingLife #Counsellor
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How to Minimise Suffering by Re-assigning Meaning | Simplifying Life
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Lesson 2 of A Course in Miracles states: "I have given everything I see ... all the meaning that it has for me". (Post-)modern psychology agrees that we are ...The past is history.
The future is a mystery.
Today is the gift; that's why we call it the present.
#today #thepresent
