A half-day retreat in Mindfulness Meditation to return the mind to its natural balanced state through Metta and Shamata practices. We will explore how Buddhist transformational psychology and meditation practice can complement Wester psychological understanding, helping us make friends with painful feelings through awareness.
Mindfulness helps to cultivate dual awareness of both our inner state of mind and heart and the awareness of the world in front of us. This practice helps to increase inner calm and self-knowing, as well as more balance and skillfulness concerning our interactions with others.
We will practice Shamata meditation, which helps to stabilize the mind through vividness, stillness and deep relaxation. This practice helps us to settle the mind in its natural state.
Metta meditation helps develop "exquisit empathy" which is a heartfelt, well-boundaried, sensitively attuned and hightly present way of being with ourselves and others. Through this practice we can develop our innate self-compassion and compassion for others.
There will be an opportunity for practicing sitting and walking meditation as well as Metta/Lovingkindness meditation.
"We often speak of mindfulness not only as bare attention but as affectionate attention. Woven into it is an orientation towards kindness and seeing deeply into the nature of things, which invites us to see how all is interconnected." - Jon Kabbat-Zinn
3 CEs available for MFT and LCSW.
Radhule Weininger, MD, PhD who practices psychotherapy and has studied Mindfulness meditation with Jack Kornfield through Spirit Rock Buddhist Center.
