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Living with mindfulness brings us into the field ethics, of talking about how best we can live our lives.One of the most common reasons that people cite for wanting to learn meditation is to reduce stress.
Stress is of course unavoidable, and the point of stress reduction and stress management programs is not to eliminate stress from our lives entirely. Life is always going to be full of challenges, and a life without some turmoil is not only impossible but is also undesirable.
Meditation involves taking responsibility for our own mental states, and training ourselves to alter how we respond to experiences (especially difficult ones) so that we produce outcomes (both internally, in terms of mental states that we experience, and externally, in terms of the situations that we help create) that are more conducive to well being and happiness.
In meditation we cultivate the faculty of mindfulness, or awareness. Mindfulness helps us to become more deeply aware of the patterns that our mind and emotions give rise to – including the patterns of responses that we experience as stress.
Meditation can also help us become more aware of how to make choices that lead to outcomes that are more supportive of well being and happiness.
Living mindfully in this way is incredibly enriching. It helps prevent the arising of unpleasant states of mind such as stress and depression, and it also helps us to live with freedom, dignity, and with respect for ourselves and others.
Living with mindfulness brings us into the field ethics, of talking about how best we can live our lives. But it also is a way of living meditatively.
Attending this training will help you to apply the principles of meditation to your daily activities.
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University of St Michael's College Faculty of Theology, Room 307, Muzzo Family Alumni Hall, 121 St. Joseph Street, Toronto, ON, Canada M5S 1J4, Canada
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CAD 213.19 to CAD 425.36