Mindfulness Meditation Workshop

MINDFULNESS BASED STRESS       REDUCTION TRAINING

SUNDAY DECEMBER 18^TH 3-5     

MEDITATION TRAINING, TEACHING AND DISCUSSION: WALKING, STANDING, AND SITTING MEDITATION AND FULL BODY SCANS!

  CHRISTMAS CHOCOLATE MEDITATION !!!

WEAR WARM SOCKS AND BRING A MAT FOR THE FLOOR!   MINDFULNESS BASED STRESS REDUCTION IS EVIDENCE BASED BEST PRACTICE FOR ANXIETY, PAIN AND DEPRESSION!

 TO RESERVE A SPOT PLEASE REGISTER ONLINE AT MINDFULNESS REGINA ON FACEBOOK; COST IS 30$

Mindfulness Meditation Community Practice

Our next Mindfulness Meditation Community Practice will be held on Sunday January 17th from 3-5 at the office of Dr. Todd Sojonky.  Suggested minimum donation is thirty dollars.  We will practice walking mindfulness, full body scan, sitting meditation and the practice of Loving Kindness.  Hope you come and enjoy our Caring Community.  Please register at Mindfulness Regina on Facebook.

When you're feeling anxious or stressed, these strategies will help you cope:

1. Take a time-out. ...
2. Eat well-balanced meals. ...
3. Limit alcohol and caffeine, which can aggravate anxiety and trigger panic attacks.
4. Get enough sleep. ...
5. Exercise daily to help you feel good and maintain your health. ...
6. Take deep breaths.

Breath

One of the greatest gifts that is present in every moment is the flow of your breath.  Your breath is the mover; you are the dancer.    -Shiva Rea

Mindfulness Regina

A wonderful group open to all people interested in practicing meditation.  We meet monthly for two hours to practice mindfulness; sitting, walking and laying.  Individual sessions are available.  Check us out on Facebook.  Peace.  Dr. T

Mindfulness

The practice of mindfulness, of bringing the scattered mind home, and so of bringing the different aspects of our being into focus, is called Peacefully Remaining or Calm Abiding.

All the fragmented aspects of ourselves, which had been at war, settle and dissolve and become friends. In that settling we begin to understand ourselves more, and sometimes even have glimpses of the radiance of our fundamental nature.   -Rigpa

What is compassion?

What is compassion? It is not simply a sense of sympathy or caring for the person suffering, not simply a warmth of heart toward the person before you, or a sharp clarity of recognition of their needs and pain, it is also a sustained and practical determination to do whatever is possible and necessary to help alleviate their suffering.

Loss and Bereavement

Loss and bereavement can remind you sharply of what can happen when in life you do not show your love and appreciation, or ask for forgiveness, and so make you far more sensitive to your loved ones.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross said: ‘What I try to teach people is to live in such a way that you say those things while the other person can still hear it.” And Raymond Moody, after his life’s work in near-death research, wrote: “I have begun to realize how near to death we all are in our daily lives. More than ever now I am very careful to let each person I love know how I feel.”   -Rigpa

Gratitude Meditation - Relax with Deepak Chopra

"A Good Day" With Brother David Steindl-Rast

Three Rational Humorous Songs

Compassion

Evoking the power of compassion in us is not always easy. I find myself that the simplest ways are the best and the most direct. Every day, life gives us innumerable chances to open our hearts, if we can only take them. An old woman passes you with a sad and lonely face and two heavy plastic bags full of shopping she can hardly carry. Switch on a television, and there on the news is a mother in Beirut kneeling above the body of her murdered son, or an old grandmother in Moscow pointing to the thin soup that is her only food. . . .

Any one of these sights could open the eyes of your heart to the fact of vast suffering in the world. Let it. Don’t waste the love and grief it arouses. In the moment you feel compassion welling up in you, don’t brush it aside, don’t shrug it off and try quickly to return to “normal,” don’t be afraid of your feeling or be embarrassed by it, and don’t allow yourself to be distracted from it. Be vulnerable: Use that quick, bright uprush of compassion—focus on it, go deep into your heart and meditate on it, develop it, enhance and deepen it. By doing this you will realize how blind you have been to suffering.

All beings, everywhere, suffer; let your heart go out to them all in spontaneous and immeasurable compassion.   -Rigpa

Meditation

When people begin to meditate, they often say that their thoughts are running riot and have become wilder than ever before. But I reassure them and say that this is a good sign. Far from meaning that your thoughts have become wilder, it shows that you have become quieter and are finally aware of just how noisy your thoughts have always been. Don’t be disheartened or give up. Whatever arises, just keep being present, keep returning to the breath, even in the midst of all the confusion.  ---Rigpa

Mindfulness Practice

Pain

Don’t we know, only too well, that protection from pain doesn’t work, and that when we try to defend ourselves from suffering, we only suffer more and don’t learn what we can from the experience? As Rilke wrote, the protected heart that is “never exposed to loss, innocent and secure, cannot know tenderness; only the won-back heart can ever be satisfied: free, through all it has given up, to rejoice in its mastery.”

Our Inner Being

We are so addicted to looking outside ourselves that we have lost access to our inner being almost completely. We are terrified to look inward, because our culture has given us no idea of what we will find. We may even think that if we do, we will be in danger of madness. This is one of the last and most resourceful ploys of ego to prevent us from discovering our real nature.

So we make our lives so hectic that we eliminate the slightest risk of looking into ourselves. Even the idea of meditation can scare people. When they hear the words egoless or emptiness, they think that experiencing those states will be like being thrown out the door of a spaceship to float forever in a dark, chilling void. Nothing could be further from the truth. But in a world dedicated to distraction, silence and stillness terrify us; we protect ourselves from them with noise and frantic busyness. Looking into the nature of our mind is the last thing we would dare to do.   ---Rigpa

Relationships

Imagine that you are having difficulties with a loved one, such as your mother or father, husband or wife, lover or friend. How helpful and revealing it can be to consider the other person not in his or her “role” of mother or father or husband, but simply as another “you,” another human being, with the same feelings as you, the same desire for happiness, the same fear of suffering. Thinking of the other one as a real person, exactly the same as you, will open your heart to him or her and give you more insight into how to help.  ---Rigpa

New Location for Sojonky Psychological Services

Happy to announce Sojonky Psychological Services is moving! Opening the Arcola Wellness Centre starting July 2! Marriage and Family therapy, depression and anxiety, stress and chronic pain, eating disorders and yes Yoga classes! Feel free to spread the word. Peace and best wishes. Dr. Todd Sojonky, Ph.D., R.D. Psychologist

3018 Doan Drive, Regina, Sk. (306) 737-6533

Your Pain

Whatever you do, don’t shut off your pain; accept your pain and remain vulnerable. However desperate you become, accept your pain as it is, because it is in fact trying to hand you a priceless gift: the chance of discovering, through spiritual practice, what lies behind sorrow.

“Grief,” Rumi wrote, “can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life’s search for love and wisdom.”

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