Last updated 8/2021
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Using mindfulness and meditation to heal harmful habits, attachments, and addictions
What you'll learn
Understand where harmful habits come from and how they become entrenched
Pause and sense what's going on when a craving arises, instead of battling it or giving in to it
Step out of the cycle of hating, blaming and shaming ourselves
Come back to connectedness
Sustain positive change
Really be here for the moments of deep beauty in life that make it all worthwhile
Requirements
There is no prerequisite to taking this course.
Description
Often when our basic needs and desires are not met, we pursue substitute gratifications. Craving and fixating on these substitute gratifications is what drives addictive and compulsive behaviors.Overachieving, overextending ourselves, trying to check more and more things off the list: these substitutes are largely socially-accepted. Some private habits, like obsessive thinking or spending many hours every day gaming or browsing online, may go unnoticed. Other behaviors draw more disapproval (causing us to work harder at keeping them hidden), because everyone can see the damage they do: addictions to alcohol or other substances, gambling, shopping, sex, overeating, violence, and so on.Whichever attachments we find ourselves caught in, as long as we keep pursuing them and shaming ourselves for doing so, we can't free ourselves in a deep way.The good news is that the way we pay attention dramatically affects the structure of our brain and the function of our body, mind and heart. Any time an obsessive thought or a craving arises, if we can learn how to pause just long enough to attend to the feeling of it, we can step out of its trance.Mindfulness meditation directly de-conditions habitual grasping - the "hungry ghost" syndrome – and allows us to reconnect in a healthy way with the energy of desire that makes all life possible. and joyful!
Overview
Section 1: Attachment: An Overview
Lecture 1 Desire Is Necessary; Clutching Is Painful
Lecture 2 "I Should Be Able To Control It"
Lecture 3 Practice Exercise: Power in Witnessing the Wanting
Section 2: What Blocks Our Access To Happiness
Lecture 4 Chasing After So Many Things
Lecture 5 The Encouraging Truth About Desire
Lecture 6 How Habit Operates
Lecture 7 Practice Exercise: Missed Moments?... How We Live the Day
Section 3: Awareness Waking Up
Lecture 8 Hole in the Soul
Lecture 9 Coming Back To Connectedness
Lecture 10 Removing the Layer of Blame
Lecture 11 Keys To Sustaining Habit Change (with Case Study, I)
Lecture 12 Practice Exercise: Fresh Possibilities
Section 4: Healing the Compulsion To Consume
Lecture 13 A Most Popular "False" Refuge
Lecture 14 Tara's Own Experience
Lecture 15 Points of Definition
Lecture 16 It's Not Our Fault
Lecture 17 Deeper Intent
Lecture 18 Neuroplasticity: Good News
Lecture 19 Practice Exercise: The Message You Want To Remember
Section 5: Realizing Full Aliveness
Lecture 20 R.A.I.N. Interrupts the Addictive Process (with Case Study, II)
Lecture 21 Stronger the Addiction, Greater the Potential Freedom
Lecture 22 Practice Exercise: Receiving What We Most Want
Lecture 23 Bonus Lecture: Additional Resources & Acknowledgements
Anyone with a strong, habitual attachment that causes them pain,Anyone who struggles with an addiction or habit they just can't break (opioid or other drugs, smoking, sugar, ... etc.),Anyone suffering from obsessive thoughts or compulsive behaviors, including eating disorders,Anyone who feels out of control in some aspect of their life
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