The practice of mindfulness meditation has many fruits. Perhaps those most closely related to effective emotional and psychological healing are greater clarity and the ability to sit with the arising of discomfort. These fruits, along with the cultivation of disciplined compassion, allow sensitive material to rise into awareness where it can be acknowledged, processed and released. Because energy from this repressed, unconscious material can fuel reactive, compulsive processes, its release can, in turn, lead to greater freedom from depression, anxiety and general discomfort. As in Vipassana meditation, one does not need to suppress or express these energies or the images, impressions and memories underlying them. Rather, simply opening to them with disciplined, compassionate observation allows them to move through, leaving a sense of spaciousness and vital energy.

This workshop is an introduction to mindfulness meditation and offers an outline of how meditation can be applied to emotional healing work. It will also provide an overview of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and Mindfulness Based Group Psychotherapy programs.

Registration: To register for either of these workshops, simply send an email to register@bemindful.org OR call 813-980-2700 and leave the day you will attend, your name, phone number. The workshops will be essentially the same but if you wish to attend both, you are certainly welcome to do so.

Cost: This is a “donation only” workshop. Proceeds benefit Flowing Dharma, a 501.c.3 non-profit organization which supports the sharing of Buddhist teachings on Mindfulness Meditation by sponsoring retreats and workshops around the Tampa Bay Area.