Mary Ryan

Sudbury, UK

Explore a four-part path using awareness, kindness, breath, and questions to become your best self.

Awareness

Kindness

Breath

Question

English

Life moves at a fast pace, and it's challenging for our minds and emotions to keep up. When we are stressed, our reaction to our circumstances is sometimes less than ideal. Through this four-part course, you'll learn a model to re-center yourself and skillfully respond to your circumstances. 

First, you'll learn the skill of awareness or mindfulness. Brief exercises can help you connect with the present moment, especially when you are overwhelmed. Next, you'll learn kindness toward yourself. Our inner voice can be so harsh, both toward ourselves and toward others; it's easy to assume the worst. A couple of kindness exercises will help re-train your auto-pilot to be more gentle. In the third session, you'll learn how the breath can change everything. Breathing exercises can be powerful, but so is simple breath awareness. Finally, in the last session, you'll learn the right question to ask yourself deeply, so that the answer guides your behaviors in the most skillful way possible.

How to Choose s Skillful Response in Any Situation, Using Mindfulness, Kindness, Breath, and Asking Yourself One Question

Four-Part Path To Being Your Best Self

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Hi, I'm Joni and welcome to the four-part path of being your best self. In this course, I will help you learn how to overcome your autopilot, which for most of us when we're under stress and when we're overwhelmed, our autopilot can get us into trouble. Either we end up having negative thoughts or negative behaviors that impact just us, or it can get us into trouble. So let's get started. And it's happening inside our head, or we can end up in conflict with others. This four-part path, we will talk about awareness or mindfulness and how some simple practices can bring you back to a grounded, clear state. Kindness will be the focus of our second session, and that's kindness toward yourself as well as others. Sometimes it's easy to assume the worst and some simple kindness practices can help to reset that tendency. The third session, we'll talk about the power of the breath, not just breathing exercises, but breath awareness. And finally, in the fourth session, we will talk about the magic question and some other questions you can ask yourself so that you can find the best course of action to move forward. I hope this course is helpful for you in your path to be your best self, to feel your best self on the inside, and to carry out the best course of action moment to moment.