Touching Life

Mindfulness is seen by most as a hype or a trick to relax. To get rid of stress.
Surely Mindfulness can help you with that. It can however bring you more richness than that; Mindfulness can bring you into contact with YOU, with your life. Being fully present in full contact with what is happening and what is important to you.

Many people chase after success, fame and wealth and in the process loose contact with all the richness that is there in the present moment. How do you experience the balance between for instance career and personal wellbeing?
If we do not train our mind, we let our mind run free to chase after desires, fears and regrets. And we lose contact with the present moment.
Your body and your senses are your window, your interface to the world. And your feelings tell you how the present relates to your inner compass. When you are not in contact with your body and feelings, you are flying blind. When you are not aware what drives you or understand true happiness, then where are you running to?

Being mindful, being fully in contact with the present moment. Fully aware of what is in you and around you. Mindfulness brings you into contact with your happiness and lets you read your compass.

The roots of Mindfulness are very old. About 25 centuries ago Prince Gautama Siddhartha applied the practice of meditation. He found out that when you stop and look around with mindfulness you see different things. You see reality as it really is. His breakthrough earned him the title “The enlightened one” or “Buddha”. During his life he has spend about 40 years of studying and teaching Meditations and shared the Insights he found. After him many great people studied and lived that way and left us a wealth of insights and methods.
In our days we have the privilege to enjoy the teachings of a number of great teachers. We will draw from the wisdom of Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh, Zen teacher Cuong Lu and Psycholgists Jon Kabat Zin and Edel Maex.

In this first block we will explore what is meant by mindfulness and what it can bring.
We explore how we can make contact with the present moment, with the here and now. Bringing mind and body together in their true home, the present.
We will discover that it is very simple, it only takes a few minutes of practice per day. Just follow your breath, observe without judgment without expectation. Allow your body and mind to become peaceful and experience the stillness and the wisdom that is already inside you, waiting for you to discover.
You are invited to wake-up, to open up to what is there waiting for you. It’s only one breath away.