Extensive 21 Sessions Challenge

21 Sessions Challenge
Extended - Generating
Awareness

Module 1: Awareness

A fully comprehensive course designed to get your mind and therefore life into a better place. This first module of two explains in complete detail how to generate this foundation of mental health ‘awareness’ Without awareness, particularly self-awareness, there is no foundation to begin to work with your mind. Not only that but awareness allows us to live more in the moment, to be less reactive and to enable focus and concentration into every aspect of our life. By being with our awareness we are less caught by obsessive thinking and negative mental states which cause mental unhappiness and physical sickness.

Build more joy, confidence, health and well-being into your life. Can be done over 21 days, or a longer time frame if needed and provides every tool you need to keep going on your own. Each session consists of a introductory talk audio, a PDF summary & a meditation audio. Everything is here for you to continue and work at your own pace to cultivate this beautiful mind state.

Welcome to the first of a series of condensed 21 session challenges: Developing Awareness

1. What do these challenges involve?

There will be 21 sessions of audio presentations; a short talk and then a guided meditation. Along with & following these audios each session there will suggested challenges for you to follow during the day.

Full immersion into this challenge is ideal and would involve following the audios and completing the other parts of the challenge suggested each session. Time wise this would be approx. 15 minutes of introductory audio plus another 15 of meditation practice, once or twice during the day.

Laid back immersion; those with limited time can complete the challenge through simply following the audio each day.

 2. What is the aim of this particular 21 day challenge?

This first developing awareness challenge is designed to bring the joyful art of meditation into your life. Whether a new meditator or someone having experience, these 21 days will give you a comprehensive springboard into meditation practice. You will learn the basic meditation techniques, how to develop them, the mental capacities required, the obstacles to meditation practice and how to overcome them.

Following this challenge will give you all the tools you need to not just start meditating but to grow and develop your practice something you can truly take with you throughout life.

Ideal for yoga teachers wishing to bring genuine meditation into their sessions.

21 Sessions Road Map Awareness

  • How to start meditating. Basic principles and learning the first technique
  • What factors will help with this and how to build up the mental muscles we need.
  • How to begin to lessen the control thoughts have over us and learn to let them go.

  • Learning what the obstacles to focused effective meditation are.

  • Cultivating practices which allow us to deal with these obstacles

  • How to bring awareness more into our life

  • What daily habits enable this awareness

  • Learning a technique to bring us more quickly into deeper meditation

  • How to be simply aware rather than reactive to both external events and internal emotions

  • To genuinely be able to be free from obsessive thinking

  • Studying both the nature and functions of our mind

  • Why this is relevant to our meditation and our mental wellbeing

  • How does our mind work and what is the relevance of this to our life and wellbeing.

  • How our mind either creates our suffering or our happiness

  • How to allow our meditation practice to be connected to the world.

  • Practically letting go of the disconnection or isolation within meditation

  • Taking a new profound object to focus on within meditation

  • Connecting with the healthy level of our mind within and then outside meditation

  • Seeing how our mind is more than simply thoughts, feelings and emotions.

  • Using the thoughts to come home to our awareness

  • How to reach and connect with this more subtle level of our mind

  • How our meditation practice leads to a healthy and joyful life

  • How to gradually lengthen and deepen our practice

  • Dealing with the all too common disconnect between mind and body

  • Using the mind to influence and heal the body

  • Learning to observe rather than react to body sensations

  • What benefits does awareness bring to our life?

  • How this can be achieved through both mind and body connection

  • What is laziness and what are the different types

  • How to begin to work with this in our own minds

  • What are the antidotes to laziness

  • What is gratitude and why is it so useful

  • How to develop and bring this attitude into our lives

  • How gratitude counteracts laziness

  • How appreciation and gratitude allow us to see the meaning & purpose of our lives

  • How this appreciation lifts our minds and brings joy into our lives

  • What are the levels and types of meaning & purpose

  • Why is the recollection of our own mortality such an important subject to reflect on

  • How this recollection brings us back into our lives and into the moment with renewed enthusiasm and joy

  • What are the other obstacles to concentration

  • How to cultivate the antidotes to these obstacles

  • What is an ideal daily program to keep working with our minds?

  • What habits and ways of living help us to stay in this healthy state?