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"Do you treat this moment as if it were an obstacle to be overcome? Do you feel you have a future moment to get to that is more important? Almost everyone lives like this most of the time. Since the future never arrives, except as the present, it is a dysfunctional way to live. It generates a constant undercurrent of unease, tension, and discontent. It does not honor life, which is Now and never not Now. "
Eckhart Tolle
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Welcome
| We all experience setbacks and disappointment in life and sometimes we are faced with serious illness or the loss of people and things that we love. If we are fortunate we can turn to family and friends for guidance and support at those times but ultimately we must look within for the courage and strength to go on and find new meaning in our lives. Mindfulness is borrowed from an ancient Buddhist practice that teaches us to stop looking outside ourselves for comfort and answers and to focus our awareness on our own responses to whatever we are experiencing. |
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Meditation, EMDR and Integrative breathwork, combined with psychotherapy, are wonderful tools for learning to live authentically and mindfully in the Here and Now. So much of our time is spent mulling over regrets of the past or worrying about what might go wrong in the future that we spend precious little time being fully present to what is actually happening in the moment. By learning to bring our attention to the breath we can ground our consciousness in the body and witness the thoughts, emotions and sensations that make up our experience. With practice and an attitude of non-judgment and compassion for ourselves we begin to notice how recurring, self defeating thoughts and unintegrated emotions condition our current experience. We begin to understand that by seeing new experiences through the prism of unexamined thoughts, learned behavior and old wounds; we create the same painful experiences over and over again.
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