Mindfulness and Meditation
Embark on a journey of self-discovery and inner peace. Learn and discuss techniques to cultivate present moment awareness, reduce stress, and enhance overall well-being. Foster a deeper connection with yourself and the world around you.
This program is designed to introduce adults to exploring the transformative practice of mindfulness and meditation. Activities vary from month to month and may include discussion, sharing personal experience and practices, exploring books read and special guests.
2024 Mindful Mondays
REGULAR MONTHLY MEETINGS HELD ON MONDAYS
Recommended Reads
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What if you start to get deep inner signals for your next best action? What if you are able to handle never-ending outer world demands with deep inner peace and calm? Imagine winning your feeling of overwhelmed in the face of any stressful situations. Imagine nurturing the best relationship with your loved ones and start living with an enhanced awareness.
If you are frustrated with all your inner chaos, stress, and anxiety, if you continuously wonder why life seems so hard to you always, if you are sincerely looking for the ways to bring joy and happiness in your life, Mindfulness is your answer.
Practical, real life methods to become the luckiest person you know with-no lucky charms or rituals needed to beat the odds. Luck-we’re not sure what it is, but we know we want it on our side. Is luck a cosmic force that we can randomly stumble upon, or is there something real that people we consider lucky have discovered? The Science of Being Lucky is an in-depth look at what all lucky people have in common and how they set themselves up for success time after time.
We face a potent intersection of crises: ecological destruction, rising inequality, racial injustice, and the lasting impacts of a devastating pandemic. The situation is beyond urgent. To face these challenges, we need to find ways to strengthen our clarity, compassion, and courage to act.
Beloved Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh is blazingly clear: there’s one thing we all have the power to change, which can make all the difference, and that is our mind. Our way of looking, seeing, and thinking determines every choice we make, the everyday actions we take or avoid, how we relate to those we love or oppose, and how we react in a crisis.
Welcome to a master class in mindfulness. Jon Kabat-Zinn has been teaching the tangible benefits of meditation in the mainstream for decades. Today, millions of people around the world have taken up a formal mindfulness meditation practice as part of their everyday lives. But what is meditation anyway? And why might it be worth trying? Or nurturing further if you already have practice?
If you’re curious as to why meditation is not for the “faint-hearted,” how taking some time each day to drop into awareness can actually be a radical act of love, and why paying attention is so supremely important, consider this book an invitation to learn more–from one of the pioneers of the worldwide mindfulness movement.
Think you have no time for mindfulness? Think again. How do you actually go about meditating? What does a formal meditation practice look like? And how can we overcome some of the common obstacles to incorporating meditation into daily life in an age of perpetual self-distraction?
Science shows that the tangible benefits of a mindfulness meditation practice are impossible to ignore. Kabat-Zinn explains how to incorporate them into our hectic, modern lives. Read on for a master class from one of the pioneers of the worldwide mindfulness movement.