Mindfulness: The Key to Self Management

What is Self Management ?

Managing our….. Speech Actions Thoughts

Why is it important ?Which is the most crucial ?Let us investigate… keep quiet

and find out the state of our own mind……

thoughts not in our control !

How do Thoughts arise?

Cognition

Perception Interpretation of whatever is cognized

Feelings and sensations

Response to the above => thoughts, speech, actions

How to bring about a change in Thoughts ?

Usual thought pattern ? Its relationship to feelings?

Common approaches to bring about a change Positive thinking ‘Religious’ approaches

The paradigm of Mindfulness : story: face the brutes!!

How does Mindfulness bring about a change in Thoughts?

Awareness of the habit patterns during meditation helps in identifying them during daily life and naturally brings about a change.

Non-reactive obsevation implies refusal to follow the habit patterns !

This is what we practice in this workshop