Foundations Course
This training in Clarity, Non-Interference and Conditioning, provides a sound foundation from which you will be able to take an active & constructive role in your development towards happiness.
With patience (quantity time + quality effort) you will naturally notice:
- Negative reactivity & emotions become less intense and stay for less time
- When we experience pain or difficulties in life, we are less disturbed as we know how to healthily be with them. We know the best next steps.
- You become independent, your own teacher. As you will be able to notice, understand & influence why you are happy and why you are unhappy.
Every single moment of our life, becomes an opportunity to support your life towards happiness, away from suffering.
- Technique: Softening
- Individuals, groups or organizations
- Anyone desiring to start or improve their skills in clarity, non-interference & conditioning
- One-off seminar or 4x90min online sessions
- Lecture, Guided Practice, Q&R
Break free from negative thoughts
- Improved ability to become present & recognize what is happening within you
- Providing you with freedom to stop giving fuel to negative reactivity and to give fuel towards positive responses.
- e.g., Recognizing one is having negative self-talk such as worry about the future, being harsh on one-self and stopping to support that habit, allowing for positive responses take its place
Enjoy greater intimacy with yourself
- Improved ability to understand yourself on a psychological and even deeper levels
- Getting to know your own tendencies
- e.g., when you feel safe or afraid, what makes you angry or feeling connected
- Understanding the why behind your mechanisms of defense and of safety
- e.g., noticing the subtle but significant reasons behind our anger, fear or safety, connection
Knowing how to accept pain in one's life
- Understanding of & improved ability to better cope with whatever pain life brings you, as we know, it does so continuously
- e.g., going through periods of worry, pessimism or despair and knowing the right tools to best cope with it, such as noting, relaxing and counter-condition
Taking charge in shaping who you become
- Understanding of & improved ability to better influence who 'you' become. Your reactions, responses, thoughts.
Becoming a friend with yourself
- Improved ability to become a kind friend with yourself, and respond with kindness rather than anger to everyone else
- e.g., I used to be routinely criticizing myself harshly, being afraid of mistakes and unable to fully enjoy exploration. Thanks to the practice, I know have become my own best friend, welcoming mistakes.
- Becoming present & acknowledging the present moment in all 6 sense categories
- First we recognize the present experience, label it, investigate it further, release after a while, and repeat
- Technique: Softening
- Releasing effort behind our resistance to the current moment
- While exhaling, one releases the effort underlying the tension in the body and the tension in the mind
- Training our mind to relate with kindness, rather than unkind, angry
- Wishing well for one-self and optionally for others
- This practice method can be used for any trait you would like to cultivate e.g., gratitude, joy, forgiveness, etc.
- Allocated time for any questions
Luis's interest lies in finding methods that are effective while easy to do for those in daily life. And sharing his knowledge in a way that is actually understood by everyone.
He accumulated 1 year in silent retreats, 6000 hours of formal practice in various meditation methods, and continuous to improve his understanding and practice of how to become effectively happy.
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