Psychology of Meditation
Meditation Program with Erin Byron
FREE INTRO: 
Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2015 
@ 5:30-6:45pm

PROGRAM SESSIONS: 
Tuesdays, Sept. 22 to Dec. 15, 2015 @ 5:30-6:45pm

Tame That Monkey Mind!
The Fall Trimester, offering you Insight to your Inner World!

Understand the influence of your perceptions and lifestyle on your meditation. Learn to support your meditation practice through the power of your mind.


Topics Include:
  • Coping with stress and distractions
  • Role of beliefs in personal pain
  • Ancient sense-mastery techniques
  • Variety of relaxation practices
  • Relationship between mental processes
  • and your experience of inner peace


*Every session Includes Sunday practice @ 10:00-11:15am 

If you have any questions or interested in our Psychology of Meditation program, please contact us.


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Week 1 - DIY Practice: You Can Do It, Too!
Tuesday, Sept. 22 @ 5:30-6:45 pm
DIY Practice: You Can Do It, Too!

Examine the roots of one stressful situation then seek the corresponding attitude to eliminate the stress. This personalized state offers intention.
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Week 2 - Personal Meaning & Affirmation
Tuesday, Sept. 29 @ 5:30-6:45 pm
Personal Meaning & Affirmation

Let's make sure that you know how to sit and why. And remember, if you feel any physical pain from sitting in meditation, you are instructed to reposition your body. 

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Week 3 - Yoga Poses for Meditation
Tuesday, Oct. 6 @ 5:30-6:45 pm
Yoga Poses for Meditation

Yoga philosophy includes a three pointed definition of the material world in terms of the qualities of reality (Gunas) namely, pure, energetic and dull.

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Week 4 - Beyond Positive & Negative Thinking
Tuesday, Oct. 13 @ 5:30-6:45 pm
Beyond Positive & Negative Thinking

Yoga philosophy includes a three pointed definition
of the material world in terms of the qualities of reality namely, pure, energetic and dull.

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Week 5 - Food for the Mind
Tuesday, Oct. 20 @ 5:30-6:45pm

Traditionally, food is viewed only as calories that fuel the body. However, total nutrition includes what an entire person receives on a daily basis from the physical to emotional and spiritual.

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Week 6 - Understanding Perception
Tuesday, Oct. 27 @ 
5:30-6:45pm
Understanding Perception

A large portion of distraction reaches us through our five sense organs, most notably the senses of sound and sight. One of the reasons our senses are so powerful is that they can trigger memories very easily.
 
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Week 7 - How to Slow Down
Tuesday, Nov. 3 @ 5:30-6:45pm
How to Slow Down

Life in modern culture continues to speed up. Each gadget that increases the speed of information movement, the more temptation exist for the mind to speed up.
  
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Week 8 - The Eye of Stillness
Tuesday, Nov. 10 @ 5:30-6:45pm
The Eye of Stillness

It is helpful to allow the eyes to perceive a situation based on the premise that there is always, yes always, more to a situation than the senses can perceive. When we understand that the senses are not full proof, we realize that the senses are "fool-proof," then we react slowly to gather more information about a situation. 

Meditation helps one realize that even 
the mind does not comprehend reality.
  
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Week 9 - The Safety of the Womb
Tuesday, Nov. 17 @ 5:30-6:45pm
The Safety of the Womb

The sense of taste, touch and smell are lesser distractions during seated meditation practice. While aromas associate the mind with strong memories, these situations are less frequent when meditating. Likewise, the hands and skin is passive during meditation practice.
  
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Week 10 - Comfort with Silence
Tuesday, Nov. 24 @ 5:30-6:45pm
Comfort with Silence

Are you comfortable with silence?

The honest answer is that each of our minds adheres to disturbance as normal. The mind resists taking the next steps in its silence...

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Week 11 - Mindfulness in Everyday Life
Tuesday, Dec. 1 @ 5:30-6:45pm
Mindfulness in Everyday Life

Ask anyone the keys to meditation and they might describe something related to a meditation exercise or proper deep breathing or to sitting quietly each day.
 
Most of us think that to meditate relates
only to the actual time sitting still...
  
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Week 12 - Personal Beliefs, Awareness & Self-Sabotage
Tuesday, Dec. 8 @ 5:30-6:45pm
Personal Beliefs, Awareness & Self-Sabotage

Yoga's philosophy does contend that religious belief is a valid and very effective path to enlightenment. There are many paths that Yoga recognizes as valid paths to a focused mind. In other words, the agnostic and atheist may be enlightened as well as the religious believer because spiritual awakening.
  
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Week 13 - Meditative Mind & Meditation for Your Type
Tuesday, Dec. 15 @ 5:30-6:45pm
Meditative Mind & Meditation for Your Type

To know the source of your mind's distractions and cite the tools helpful for quieting your mind. Chart a process for continued practice
 

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