Vidyamala Burch

I am excited to be letting you know about a new course I’ve written that has just been released through the app Insight Timer. It runs over 10 days and includes a short talk and meditation on different themes each day.

It summarises all the main approaches I’ve developed to help you free your mind, even if your body is hurting.

The methods are all similar to those developed in my well-researched and effective ‘Mindfulness for Health’ book and course. But the content is now very easily accessible via an intuitive and user-friendly app.

My hope is that many people will do this new course as an introduction and taster to mindfulness and compassion for pain and illness, and then go on to deepen their practice using the Breathworks in-depth mindfulness courses offered via book, online, face-to-face classes and retreats. That way people who live with pain and illness can go on a journey of ever-increasing depth and breadth finding many jewels along the way.

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I recently did an interview with the Malaysian magazine 1Twenty80, on the topic of mindfulness and its health and professional benefits, as well as how to best practice mindfulness to feel its extraordinary value in your own life.

1. Could you kindly explain what mindfulness is?

Mindfulness is, in essence, awareness. Through training, traditionally by practising meditation, we learn to become aware of what is happening mentally, emotionally and physically in each moment. This then gives us the tremendous skill of choice in how we respond. So rather than feeling a victim of our thoughts, emotional states or physical experience; we can learn to choose to respond rather than react and feel much more of a sense of power and control in life.

(For more on this: http://www.breathworks-mindfulness.org.uk/what-is-mindfulness)

2. How does being mindful benefit one’s health?

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I have finished my new website at long last. I’ve been working on it for months and it kept on falling to the bottom of the ‘to do’ list what with one thing and another. 

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