Mindfulness Meditation allows everyone to gain the tools of slowing down, new insights into life, ourselves and opportunities for inner growth.
We all seek joy and happiness, yet typically employ the same patterned analytical process over and over believing this will end our pain and discomfort. Scientific evidence reveals that reflective insight utilizing experiential body awareness will change our thinking patterns.
Insight allows us to see the extremes the human mind creates through its attachments and desires, dislikes and aversion, doubts and confusions.
The beginner’s mind is a state of openness and anticipation in seeing what is. A willingness to learn something new without preconceptions of what is about to be learned.
Our 21st Century nervous system continues to respond to life from the “hunter-gatherer realm of survival.” We must "pause" to let the nervous system know "the bear is not at our front door.” Otherwise, we continuously experience daily life in a highly aroused survival state.
As the mind becomes more tranquil, calm, and collected, equanimity is the natural occurrence of our ability to stay more balanced. This is an equipoise stance we are able to inhabit as the winds of life swirl around us. Our clinging desires and/or aversions to the daily phenomena of life, no longer grip us so our impulsive actions and thoughts, no longer own our behavioral responses.
"The silence is there within us. What we have to do is to enter into it, to become silent, to become the silence. The purpose of meditation and the challenge of meditation is to allow ourselves to become silent enough to allow this interior silence to emerge. Silence is the language of the spirit. " – From John Mains in Word
Awareness
“Present moment awareness is here and now... Where else could it be?”
“The spirit is true and free when the mind is ready to surrender.”
Stress Reduction
A tight stingy mind constantly attaches to analytical viewpoints and opinion making. A pattern of stress and anxiousness that does not allow us to see clearly. This keeps people from meeting the kind heart of good intentions.
Life is not about living in the thoughts
we believe should happen. Life is about living in the experiences
that are presently happening.
Reflecting and learning from them.
~ Rik Center
Vipassana meditation translates into “Insight.” In practicing vipassana meditation we apply insight into our thinking. We observe the pondering of the mind by applying a reflective awareness in the process of focus.
We become mindful of our thoughts while creating an awareness of the felt sense body, which is like an antenna taking in information. Utilizing reflective insight we become increasingly aware of our thinking. Its relationship with the correspondent feeling tones within the body and how we respond to the world outside of ourselves and the thoughts created within our mind.
Insight Meditation is a participatory observation of the mind that adds reflective awareness to the meditation practice. An increased awareness of our own internal process; how we sense, think, and feel through participatory awareness and observation.
Mindful Awareness will enable you to see things differently, undoing mental and physical knots, tensions, and anxiety.
It will increase your confidence in having more options and more strength to face the different challenges in your life.
Mindfulness becomes the bridge that allows for calm to arise and anxiousness to dissipate.
Mindfulness develops the potential to experience each moment, no matter how difficult or intense, with greater serenity and clarity.
Mindfulness teaches us how to approach life and stress-related anxieties skillfully. ~ Jon Kabat-Zinn, Founder of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Program
“ The kindest way of listening
to an attached fearful mind is through
the goodness of an open heart. ”
~ Rik Center