Commit to Sit
A 31 Day Mindfulness Meditation Challenge
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This 31 day course will help you to build a healthy new habit of daily mindfulness meditation with the support of myself, Lauri Glenn, Certified Mindfulness Meditation Educator & Mentor, and with the support of a community of students.
Over the course of the 31 days, there will be 6 ZOOM sessions (these will be recorded, so you do not have to attend them all). We will start small with only 5 minutes of meditation and build from there to 30 minutes by the end of the course. In each session you will learn a bit about mindfulness, we will practice together and there will be time to ask questions & share reflections. Each session will last 30-45 minutes and our last session will be one hour.
After each session, you will receive an email with a recorded meditation that you can use each day to practice until our next meeting. You will also receive a link to view the ZOOM meeting if you were unable to attend. This course is a fantastic way to begin the healthy habit of meditation in a simple, supported way.
Mindfulness meditation has been studied in depth for nearly 5 decades and has been shown to do the following:
- Reduces psychological and physiological stress – with heavy schedules, challenging workloads, and busy lives, we all accumulate stress. Mindfulness can bring ease and offer practices to deal with this life and work-related stress.
- Reduces emotional reactivity – Mindfulness brings awareness to our emotions, and practice gives space for an appropriate response, resulting in skillful decisions and improved relationships, professional, relational, and intra-personal.
- Reduces compassion fatigue and emotional exhaustion – Being compassionate all the time can take it’s toll. Without practice, engaging people with an open heart can be challenging. Self-care and compassion practices can be utilized daily to develop your cultivation of compassion and empathy.
- Reduces self-criticism, anxiety, depression – With an awareness of thoughts and emotions, we are able to shift our emotional regulation strategies to better respond to situations. In practice, we are able to experience and process emotions differently- less anxiety, less depression, less self-criticism.
- Reduces rumination – being mindful of our thoughts, as they appear and reappear gives us more choice in how much we pay attention to these “re-runs.” Practice can help us reduce or give less importance to undesired mental traffic, allowing us to focus on what is really important.
- Reduces professional burnout syndrome – with long hours, and stressful situations, many professionals experience burnout at some point in their careers. Mindfulness practices can offer ways to develop improved coping skills and increase job satisfaction.
- Improves focus and working memory – resulting in greater awareness and less distraction. In a both life and work settings, this can improve assessment skills, accuracy and decision-making, as well improve performance in everything from work, to sport, to regular life.
- Increases cognitive flexibility – mindful meditation can lead to rewiring the brain to move from habitual reactions to intentional responses, resulting in improved behavior patterns in all of life.
- Improves communication – mindful listening and speaking practices can improve communication with everyone we engage. This improves effective/successful communication and often results in better outcomes, especially during high-stress situations.
- Improves job and relationship satisfaction – lovingkindness, compassion, gratitude, and equanimity practices can redirect focus on the good, and reset our “happiness” set point.
- Improves sleep and capacity to down-regulate our Nervous Systems – With regular mindfulness practices, we have the capacity to calm ourselves down, soothe our nervous systems, and find a sense of peace that is always within us. This in turn can help relieve sleep issues and allow us to access healing on a deeper level.