UNLESS you enjoy the emotional turmoil of anxiety and stress in your daily life!
UNLESS you thrive on the enjoyment of physical pain, discomfort, illness, insomnia, heart disease, hypertension, skin rashes and other bodily manifestations created by over-reaction to your thoughts,
AND, UNLESS you thrive on anger, self-criticism, depression or low self-esteem:
THEN, a daily practice of Mindfulness Meditation WILL NOT BENEFIT YOU!
HOWEVER, if you wish to make more positive and healthier CHANGES in your life, then it may be worth your while to learn about Mindfulness. It’s not woo-woo or magic! It is a logical and easy-to-understand concept backed by an abundance of neuroscientific and psychological research. Just Google it!
You don’t need to sit like a pretzel or in a yoga/lotus position or sit on a mountain top as often depicted in images of meditators. You don’t need to stop your thoughts, become spaced-out or sit in a trance during a MINDFULNESS MEDITATION practice.
A Mindfulness practice will teach you how to become more aware of those negative thoughts that are detrimental to you mental and physical well-being…and then how to make a choice to “let them be”. Studies show that the majority of our thoughts are really false beliefs that we have adopted through our childhood and adolescent years.
A Mindfulness Practice will teach you how every thought we entertain sends a message to our brain. The brain believes everything we tell it! And then it sends signals to your body (via our neurons and neuro transmitters) and you react accordingly to those messages. Example: When you have a thought, “I am not very good at_________” or “I’ll never understand__________”, then you will indeed be sending a negative message to yourself and those statements will become your reality. We become what we think.
With an understanding of Mindfulness, there’s so much more to learn about the structure of our own human behavior and about the value of finding more calmness and ease in our day-to-day life. All one needs is the desire and courage to change for the better! Perhaps you don’t think you are ready, or you won’t “get it”, but you’ll never know until you open yourself up to JUST TRYING IT.
You will have the opportunity to TRY IT by registering for The Meditation Tree’s next series of ONLINE Beginner Classes starting Saturday, May 3rd, 2025 at 10”30 AM PDT. There will be 6 weekly 90-minute classes. For more details and/or to register, visit www.themeditationtree.com. Classes are by donation!