Mindfulness Meditation with Audrey

What is Mindfulness?

Mindfulness occurs when we wake up from the automatic pilot of our life and notice where our attention is in any given moment. Are we rehashing the past, or rehearsing for the future, once again? Is our attentional focus in this moment serving us? With Mindfulness, we become aware of and receptive to present moment experience with curiosity and friendliness towards ourselves and others. We learn to skillfully respond to circumstances and people from our deepest values and intentions, instead of being swept along by life’s current and reacting from our habitual conditioning. Mindfulness helps us to truly live our lives, rather than being lived by them.

Who Can Practice Mindfulness?

Mindfulness is for everyone, from all walks of life, young or old.  Mindfulness is not a religion – anyone, with any belief system, can benefit.  Mindfulness research in the United States and across the globe has scientifically correlated mindfulness to stress reduction.

The common experience of people who think “I really should meditate” is to feel frustrated and unsuccessful when they try it. “I tried meditation once, and I just couldn’t clear my mind.” This can make you feel like there is something wrong with you, that everyone else “gets it”, but you don’t. However, this is because the underlying assumption is incorrect: Meditation is not a magic mind-clearing trick.

Mindfulness Meditation gives us tools to work with the mind wandering, the thoughts, feelings and bodily sensations that naturally arise for everyone when we finally take time out of the frantic rush of our lives to be present to ourselves and our experience right now. When we apply the tools of Mindfulness on a regular basis — when we actually practice, as opposed to reading a Facebook article about it, we become more emotionally resilient and aware, so even in the face of difficulties we feel a sense of deep inner calm, both in formal meditation practice, and in our lives all day long. This sense of deep equanimity and joy at being alive, within the inevitable ups and downs of our humanness, is truly the gift of Mindfulness Meditation.

Audrey’s “Learn Mindfulness Meditation” Course Participants speak!

Why is Mindfulness important to your health, your productivity, your relationships?  Read Audrey’s articles below and learn more! 

Mindfulness Research

Every day neuroscientists find new ways that Mindfulness Meditation enhances our health and longevity!

• Time Magazine’s “Your Brain on Meditation”  Click here 
• Huffington Post’s  “The Neuroscience of Meditation”  Click here
• Scientific American’s “How Meditation Changes Your Brain”   Click here 
• Time Magazine’s  “Explaining Why Meditators May Live Longer”  Click here