Last updated 8/2021
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The Freeing Power of Mindfulness and Meditation
What you'll learn
See through and move beyond the habitual perception of unworthiness
Reconnect with who you really are and what it means to live fully
Navigate painful situations with both courage and kindness
Requirements
There is no prerequisite to taking this course.
Description
One of the most painful and pervasive forms of suffering in our culture is the belief that "something is wrong with me." For many of us, feelings of deficiency are right around the corner. It doesn't take much--just hearing of someone else's accomplishments, being criticized, getting into an argument, making a mistake at work--to make us think that, deep down, we are just not okay.
This, accompanied by our judgment of others, keeps us at war with life. When not faced, our fears and blame prevent us from living and loving fully. On the societal level, designating a "bad other" fuels the violence that so plagues our world today.
As taught in the beloved bestseller Radical Acceptance, mindfulness empowers us to see clearly what is happening in the moment and respond to it with skillfulness. The course will explore this pathway to compassion and freedom through engaging lectures, guided meditations (ideally used many times, going deeper each time), and question & answer sessions on how best to put the teachings into practice in everyday life.
Overview
Section 1: The Starting Place Is Presence
Lecture 1 Course Overview
Lecture 2 The Life That's Right Here
Lecture 3 Practice Exercise: Arriving in This Moment
Section 2: Home: Who We Are
Lecture 4 Plaster and Gold
Lecture 5 Trance of Unworthiness
Lecture 6 Practice Exercise: Coming Home Again
Section 3: The Two Wings of Awareness
Lecture 7 Negativity Bias
Lecture 8 Falling Short
Lecture 9 False Refuges
Lecture 10 The Egoic Predicament
Lecture 11 Recognizing and Allowing
Lecture 12 Practice Exercise: The "No" and the "Yes"
Section 4: Wings of Awareness in Action: Q/A & Summary
Lecture 13 Bringing Full Presence to Our "No" First
Lecture 14 "Yes" Is To Feelings, Not To Triggering Events
Lecture 15 Room For Feelings To Come and Go
Lecture 16 To Recognize Whatever Comes Up In Us, and Allow It, Is Freeing
Lecture 17 The Sage's Only Question
Section 5: The R.A.I.N. of Self-Compassion
Lecture 18 R.A.I.N. Basics
Lecture 19 Embodied Investigation
Lecture 20 Nurturing
Lecture 21 Finding Nurture When We're Most Caught
Lecture 22 Too Intense To Investigate
Section 6: R.A.I.N. Practice
Lecture 23 Practice Exercise
Section 7: R.A.I.N. In Action: Q/A
Lecture 24 A False Refuge, and a True One
Lecture 25 Rewards of Embracing the Rawness
Lecture 26 Not Letting the Love In
Lecture 27 Deepening, Healing Spiral
Lecture 28 More on Accepting the Feelings, Not the Trigger
Lecture 29 Powerful Imagery
Section 8: Hurting Our Heart
Lecture 30 Blame and the Unreal Other
Lecture 31 Resentment
Lecture 32 Practice Exercise: Why We Blame
Section 9: Releasing Ourselves From Resentment's Grip
Lecture 33 How Forgiveness Works
Lecture 34 Case Study: Difficulty With In-Laws
Lecture 35 Sensing the Vulnerability
Lecture 36 Practice: Mindfully Stretching the Body
Section 10: Forgiveness Practice
Lecture 37 Practice Exercise
Section 11: Forgiveness in Action: Q/A
Lecture 38 When To Do Which Practice
Lecture 39 Wise Discernment; Is Verbalizing Necessary; the Persistent "Why?"
Section 12: Love and Belonging
Lecture 40 Calling On Our Wisest Self
Lecture 41 Practice Exercise: "Future Self" Meditation
Lecture 42 Seeing the Gold, Reflecting It Back
Lecture 43 Practice Exercise: What Do You Love?
Lecture 44 Practice Exercise: Our Loving True Nature
Lecture 45 Living Creatively, Serving Our World
Lecture 46 The Path of Awakening
Section 13: Additional Resources
Lecture 47 Additional Resources
Anyone who is their own harshest critic,Anyone who gets stuck in patterns of blame and resentment,Anyone who feels challenged around giving or receiving love
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