As the benefits from Mindfulness practices are becoming more widely recognised and known, there is now a growing demand for courses that can teach these techniques in a practical way and help anyone establishing a regular practice even if you have never done any meditation or mindfulness exercises before.

This self-paced online course gives you the background, science, practices and techniques to establish a regular mindfulness practice. It is based on the successful programme Mindfulness in Australia has been running the past four years as well as latest research and techniques on teaching mindfulness designed by the original MBSR members who trained with Jon Kabat-Zinn.

‘Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way, on
purpose, in the present moment, non-judgmentally’.
Jon Kabat-Zinn

People often ask, ‘ Is meditation and mindfulness the same?’
The answer is that there is an aspect of mindfulness in all meditation practice however they are not the same. Meditation is an activity done sitting still and turning attention to an object (breath, sounds, words) whereas mindfulness is a state of being, cultivated by the continuous awareness of where our attention is, no matter what we are doing. Mindfulness is purposefully cultivated by choosing to shift the attention, especially when we recognise we are having unhelpful thoughts and feelings. There are formal mindfulness practices (breathing, body scan, open awareness) and informal practice (bringing awareness to speaking, listening, walking eating etc.)

The ability to control attention is one of the key markers of a successful life. Practicing mindfulness regularly is associated with less negativity, greater sense of self-worth, over-all physical well-being and mental balance.

In our fast paced world, where the increasing demands of living, places enormous stress on us all, children, teenagers and adults. The purposeful, daily cultivation of connection to self, others and the world around us has been proven to assist mental, emotional and physical balance.

In your own time you will be introduced to and learn the powerful Mindfulness techniques that are helping individuals from all walks of life to have more balance and focus in their lives.

You learn and deepen your practice week by week by going through the lessons, listening to guiding audios, watching videos and keeping a daily mindfulness journal.

You will see for yourself that the ability to focus on one thing at a time is a skill and requires practice. Just as athletes train on a daily basis to maintain fitness and stamina, Mindfulness, which is a mental training, requires regular daily practice to experience the many well documented benefits especially of de-stressing, relaxing the body and generally self-managing in a new and empowering way.

Through these guided, easy-to-do practises you are training the mind to be more present in the moment. resulting in it to be less anxious, more alert and alive.

With regular practice, we begin to ‘see through’ our repeated patterns of unhelpful behaviors and by doing that we learn to stop the robotic reactivity, making the same mistakes over and over.
Recognising we have a choice, we feel freer, calmer and more
balanced.

Regular mindfulness practice has been shown to have benefits such as:

• Less anxiety and stress
• Less reactivity more responsiveness
• More mental clarity
• Increased ability to remain attentive and focused
• Increased social-emotional intelligence
• Able to get to sleep easier
• Overall well-being and inner balance

Mindfulness is not something that you do for 30 minutes a day and forget about it. Mindfulness is a way of being, bringing increased awareness to all aspects of our lives; more presence, increased curiousity and acceptance of life circumstances.

In this course we learn to cultivate balance and establish a new vital relationship with ourselves, others and the world around us. Each week we focus on an aspect of mindfulness and over the 8 weeks build a solid understanding of the processes that underpin why it is so important to have some form of daily mind training.

In this course you will be doing formal and informal mindfulness practices. Research shows that to experience the many well-documented benefits long term, you need to practice daily- not just eight weeks. The eight week time-frame is designed to allow you to organically develop the mindful state of being. After eight weeks the mind has effectively re-wired itself (created new neural pathways over old) and the mindful state of being is established as the default mode especially when the pressure is on and unhelpful thinking threatens to take over.

Most people who commit to this find the benefits of lowered anxiety and stress are enough motivation to make mindfulness practice a part of their everyday self-care. To get good at anything, sports, music, mind training, we need to practice regularly. This course gives you a foundation that is built on proven methods and the latest research.

We live in an age of science and we expect to be able to prove why and how something ‘works’ or is effective. There are countless research papers available and this has led to many people who might have associated mindfulness meditation with ‘airy-fairy’ ideas to instead consider mind training to be a real strategy to self-manage and self regulate.

This course covers basic neuroscience and draws on scientific findings of what happens physiologically when we purposefully train our attention by practicing mindfulness regularly.

Research shows that when the brain is exposed to new external and internal stimuli, new neural pathways are created – in other words both the structure and chemistry of the brain changes over time.

With regular mindfulness practice we are learning new skills to cope with our often unhelpful thoughts and feelings and robotic reactions, beliefs and behaviours.

You are never left to your own devices if there is anything you don’t understand or need more explanation on you can email me the teacher personally at any time for support and if you need more information on anything.

Mindfulness is not just some trend, but a proven method to help increase focus and awareness, make it possible to self-regulate and shift attention when caught up in negative thinking and worrying. Mindfulness exercises are designed to train our awareness and the ability to stay calm under stress and turbulence as well as having better sleep and increasing resilience.

Harvard, Oxford and Stanford Universities offer Mindfulness courses. So do many successful companies such as Google and Intel.

There is no religion, dogma or beliefs attached to Mindfulness. Mindfulness has it’s roots in many contemplative practices but doesn’t require or impose on anyones belief system. It’s a mental activity that has proven to be of great benefit for maintaining physical, mental and emotional balance.

The many benefits of Mindfulness have been well documented, especially in the past 30 years since Jon Kabat-Zinn established the Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction programme that has led to the wide-spread, acceptance of these practical exercises anyone can do.

Mindfulness practice doesn’t require any preparation or beforehand knowledge about meditation. Anyone can experience the effect from these simple exercises.

It doesn’t matter if you never have meditated or done one Mindfulness exercise in your life, this course is for anyone who is moved to establish their own Mindfulness practice and get the tools and resources to help others to improve focus, mental resilience and impulse control.

Mindfulness can’t be learnt by just talking or reading about it. Mindfulness is experiential.
This course gives you the tools and exercises to establish a strong regular practice.

To sign up and start your Mindfulness Journey, simply click the button below and you are taken to the registration page for checkout and immediate access.

Cost for the 8 week course course is $79 USD. including a 60 page PDF manual, guided audios, members only webinars and support.