Last updated 8/2021
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Using Mindfulness To Break Out of the Trance
What you'll learn
See how unconscious mental habits are established
Understand why you keep holding on to beliefs that cause suffering
Loosen the grip of beliefs that have been keeping you stuck in a rut
Release beliefs that fuel unhealthy behaviors
Discover what's possible when you no longer believe in old, limiting stories about yourself or other people
Requirements
There is no prerequisite to taking the course.
Description
If we are suffering, we're believing something that is limiting and untrue. Many of us have a cluster of core beliefs that bind us in fear and feelings of deficiency. These beliefs lead to harmful habits—addictive behaviors, conflicts, avoiding risks—that get in the way of our productivity, our ability to enjoy intimacy with others and a creative, happy life. This course shows how you can shine a light of mindful awareness on limiting beliefs, and taste the freedom that's possible when you loosen their grip. Whether you believe deep inside that you are unlovable or unworthy, unseen or misunderstood, your beliefs disconnect you from your own being and from the world. Suffering is a call to attention, your call to investigate the truth of your beliefs. For a parent, the call might be the stranglehold of worry about a child's welfare. For a business leader, it might be stress about a volatile market (or workplace). For a musician, it might be the disabling terror that accompanies performance. For a social activist, it might be despair in the face of seemingly endless injustice. Wherever we feel most endangered, most separate, most ashamed or stuck: That's where we need to shine the light of mindfulness to become more free.
Overview
Section 1: BELIEFS CAN BE A PRISON
Lecture 1 Thought-Trances
Lecture 2 Why We Hold Beliefs Which Cause Suffering
Lecture 3 Practice Exercise: Getting Curious About Beliefs
Lecture 4 Hanging On To Beliefs Is Alienating
Section 2: REAL... BUT NOT TRUE
Lecture 5 Mental Maps
Lecture 6 Loosening the Grip
Lecture 7 Freeing Up Creativity
Lecture 8 What Stops Us From Letting Go?
Lecture 9 Practice Exercise: Free of That Fist
Section 3: OVERACTIVE SURVIVAL-BRAIN
Lecture 10 Storytelling Mind
Lecture 11 Fearfulness
Lecture 12 Unconsciousness
Lecture 13 Shining a Light
Lecture 14 Practice Exercise: Awareness of the Self-Story
Section 4: WAKING UP FROM STORIES OF SEPARATION
Lecture 15 Bringing Deeply-Embedded Stories "Above the Line"
Lecture 16 Case Study