How to Transcend the Habits of Your Mind and Awaken to Your Fullest Life
Welcome to my 10-day course on How to Transcend the Habits of Your Mind and Awaken to Your Fullest life. I’m so excited to share with you an integration of teaching and practices that I have found most helpful in my own life to experience deeper well-being.
Do you:
- Feel stressed
- Walk around on automatic pilot, going through the motions of your day
- Experience dis-ease or “blah”
- Want ways to deepen well-being in your life
- Get stuck in mental ruminations and mental forecasting (what ifs) and miss out on the now
- Focus on negatives and miss the positive moments that are here
- Have a sense that there is more to life that gets lost in the busyness of your days
You’ve come to the right place!
If you are looking to break out of old habits – ones that you may not even realize you’ve fallen into – and if you want to awaken to the fullest possibilities of your life, then please join me on this journey.
More About This Course
*If you’ve taken my other course on How to Cope with Stress, this class will complement what you learned and offer you a deeper dive. If you are new to my teachings, no need to have taken my other course to get the full benefit from this class.
*This course is a great companion to my book Dancing on the Tightrope: Transcending the Habits of Your Mind and Awakening to Your Fullest Life
BONUS WHEN YOU PURCHASE THIS COURSE: You will receive my one hour video workshop From Surviving to Thriving: Practical Tools for Reducing Stress and Cultivating Well-being. This workshop is a great complement to my 10 day audio course and will help you deepen your practice using various tools.
Lesson one begins with a short meditation to connect with your intention for the class, and then lays a foundation for the ten-day class. You will learn why your brain is running on some outdated survival programs, and you will be introduced to the four mental habits we will be exploring. We will discuss some good news about how these mental habits can become your greatest allies, and why you don’t have to wait for your life circumstances to change to experience greater well-being. I will lay the groundwork for you to learn how to shift from surviving to thriving. (14:46 minutes)
In this lesson you will learn about the mental habit of the “false alarm.” We will discuss the physiology of the stress response and why our habitual responses are not always so helpful in solving our modern-day challenges. You will have an opportunity to reflect on how the false alarm shows up in your life and gain insight that can help you begin to think about and pay attention to your stress signals in a new way. (11:08 minutes)
In lesson 3 we learn how we are wired to operate on “automatic pilot,” and how to use the tool of the flashlight to bring mindful awareness to our automatic, habitual patterns of stress. This awareness, so simple and yet not so easy, creates choice for us to respond in new ways. We end with a discussion about how this simple tool can help to rewire our brains to react to stress differently. (11:56 minutes)
In lesson four you will be introduced to “the Noisy Person in the Movie Theater” as our third mental habit. You will learn about how the mental narratives that we construct can affect us in ways we often don’t realize, and we will explore the problem of taking our thoughts and stories at face value. You will have an opportunity to reflect on how the “noisy person” shows up in your life and be encouraged to become increasingly aware of your inner dialogues. (10:03 minutes)
In this lesson we explore the fourth of our mental habits called “the Velcro Problem.” You will learn about the negativity bias of your brain and why it’s easier to remember and hold onto negative experiences rather than positive ones. You will gain insight into how the Velcro Problem shows up in your life so that you can begin to notice this mental habit in ways you may not have before. (11:10 minutes)
This lesson offers an introduction to using the tool of “the flashlight”. You will learn about the power of the flashlight (a metaphor for mindful awareness) to help you see clearly when any of the mental habits are arising. You will learn how, when you are the one observing what is occurring in the light of the flashlight, it shifts your relationship to what is happening and creates possibilities that weren’t there before. (13:44 minutes)
We begin this lesson by exploring how focusing on our breath can help us step out of automatic conditioning. A short meditation practice is offered using an anchor to notice the difference between being lost in thoughts, and noticing when you are lost in thoughts. We also work with another short exercise to help you further experience the power of the flashlight. (15:05 minutes)
After reviewing the power of the flashlight to help us step out of our mental habits, we work with a short meditation practice to help cultivate feelings of compassion and caring attention in addition to the mindful awareness that we are deepening. I then introduce the tool of “the diet” and you will have a chance to discover through a short exercise how powerful our thoughts and words can be. You will learn about a diet that can help transform how you experience difficulties. (14:57 minutes)
Lesson nine gives you an opportunity to work more with the tool of the diet. You will gain further insight into how the narratives of our minds contribute to our suffering, and you will learn some powerful ways to loosen the grip of the unhelpful narratives and create more nourishing and accurate ones. I introduce the tool of the magnifying glass and we start to explore how this tool can help transform ordinary experiences. (15:37 minutes)
In this last lesson you will learn how the magnifying glass can help to face life’s challenges with greater resilience, and how the magnifying glass can help improve relationships by seeing the good in others. We will work with two short meditation practices to experience of power of the magnifying glass. The course will wrap up with a summary, circling back to where we began, and end with a poem to help remind you to use your tools. (16:16 minutes)
What People Are Saying:
Elizabeth: Excellent analogies that I will take forward. I almost feel like I need to re-listen to the course again and take notes so valuable!
Mary: What an invaluable teaching. I’m SO grateful for this. Thank you
Elizabeth: This course has given me useful tools that I’m able to use each day. The quality of my life has been improved greatly. Thank you for this wonderful gift!
Inez: Thank you. I needed this course to help me to hold center and to be mindful of what is available to me to use positively I appreciated mostly your easy conversational tone… I feel more comfortable now, knowing I can be prepared when things go wrong or become difficult.
Paulina: Fantastic Course. So enjoyable and offers so much practical and useful tools and information.
Maya: There are many great courses… but this one has been truly life changing. I will definitely listen to it again and make more notes to absorb all the amazing advise given here, but I already feel a great improvement in how I feel day to day. Thank you!
Siri: So well thought out, clearly explained, the stories and analogyies work perfectly. Easy to remember and apply. I can’t say enough good things about this course. !!
Kaitlyn: Really enjoyed Beth’s optimistic personality and story telling thoughout the course. It kept me hooked and I’ve found myself using the flashlight in my day to day!
Katie: Excellent!! I took notes for future reference to practice. Truly simple, practical tools layered upon a basic understanding of how our brains are evolutionarily wired and how we can change. Thank you!
