Living Mindfully – An Online Course
A warm welcome to the Mindfulness Association’s Living Mindfully course.
Each week for 10 weeks, we will send you an email that includes video and audio practices taken from our Level 1 course – Being Present. In addition, you will also get free 6 months access to our membership. The course information and booking link are below.
If you have any questions then please email us at info@mindfulnessassociation.net
If you can’t make it to one of our tutor-led courses or want to practice from the comfort of your own home then our online living Mindfully course is a great starting point.
Come practice with us!
Weekly Topics
What is Mindfulness?
We start with looking at What Mindfulness is and our present moment experience.
Automatic Pilot
We look at automatic pilot and our settling the mind practice.
Daily Tips
Daily tips and mindful eating practice.
Kindness in Daily Life
Happiness and wellbeing for ourselves and others.
Automatic Pilot Continued
We continue to look at our automatic pilot and a 3 monute breating space practice.
Attitude
The attitude we bring to our Mindfulness practice is one of kindly curiosity and self-acceptance regardless of what is happening in the moment.
Grounding
Grounding practice establishes a sense of being embodied, which means having a sense of being present within the body.
Mindful Walking
Tutor led videos on Mindful Walking Practices.
Daily Tips
We look at grounding tips that we can use in our daily life.
Kindness to Ourselevs
Looking at Kindness to our bodies and minds.
The Importance of Self Kindness
Tutor led videos on the importance of being kind to ourselves
Daily Tips
Tips for smiling more in our daily lives.
Putting It All Together
We put into practice what we have learned and also cover key elements of our practice, such as, intention and motivation, posture and support. We also include links to audio files of our practices.
Settling Ground Resting
Practices with sound and breath support.
Self Compassion
Mindful Compassion: How the Science of Compassion Can Help You Understand Your Emotions, Live in the Present, and Connect Deeply with Others.
Self Compassion Break
A guided practice on a self compassion break
Distraction
We familiarise ourselves with the biggest challenge to mindfulness – distraction.
Partial and Complete Distraction
A significant part of our mindfulness training consists in recognising distraction and learning to let it go and return to the support.
Compassion
We look at different types of emotional regulation systems and Mindfulness Association patron, Professor Paul Gilbert talks more about the compassionate mind and evolutionary psychology.
Life Values
An exploration of our life values
Increasing Awareness of Pleasant Events
We practice attending to pleasant events in our daily life.
Nourishing and Depleting Activities (adapted from MBCT)
We look at our norishing and depleting actiivities. How can we develop strategies to reduce or change the way we engage in depleting activities and schedule more nourishing activities.
A Mindful Life
Practice for the rest of your Life
Increasing Awareness of Pleasant Events
We practice attending to pleasant events in our daily life.
Nourishing and Depleting Activities (adapted from MBCT)
We look at our norishing and depleting actiivities. How can we develop strategies to reduce or change the way we engage in depleting activities and schedule more nourishing activities.
