Pause with purpose: bringing meditation into the midst of life

What happens when we bring more awareness into our everyday life - when we connect to that deeper wisdom within, the world around us, as well as the bigger picture?  When we start from a place of feeling good rather than assuming what we do will make us feel good. As a life coach, coach supervisor and meditation teaching  his passion is in enabling people to feel fully alive and at peace - while also of course trying to do that himself! He's trained as a certified Co-active Life Coach, CSA coach Supervisor and iRest Meditation teacher.  He sees teaching meditation as everyone learning together from our unique experiences - he definitely hasn't all the answers!  More about Will at www.willmedd.com

Will Medd

A unique day of bringing meditation right into the heart of what you do, into the midst of your normal everyday life.

A unique day of bringing meditation right into the heart of what you do, into the midst of your normal everyday life. “Very different to anything I’ve done previously, participating enabled me to make a different choice from a more spacious place where I could see more options available and while not drastic, they felt profound. It was like time was less scarce despite having lots to do.” “Stopping to reflect and meditate at regular points during the day helped me to stay connected to what I was doing and made me more aware of how I was moving though my day the day turned out to be one of my most productive days for a long time.”“I had lots of things to distract me, the non-retreat helped me stay on track. And I could have been very stressed, instead approached the day with curiosity and learnt loads! Very productive and enjoyable day!”This day of non-retreat on Zoom will invite you to :-	bring a sense of heartfelt purpose alive and present in the midst of your everyday life -	to nurture a sense of responding fully to what life is presenting, rather than what you wish it was or should have done-	begin from a place of ‘I am enough’ while nourishing a sense of feeling safe, secure and belonging-	notice what pulls you away from recognising presence Why? Because meditation isn’t just a sticking plaster. Meditation is a quality of awareness that invites us to move away from the world of hypervigilant reactivity, and into a space of response. This space of response has the potential of being one informed by the experience of peace, love, joy and sense of aliveness. Meditation is not about cutting anything out or transcending into something that little bit unreachable – meditation it is about being full present with how life is showing up. Indeed, it is not so much about a method to cope with life, rather, the very experiences that show up for us, are a way to remind us into Meditation as a quality of being in the world.Please note : I&#x27;ve not set a charge for this event - instead I ask you to make a contribution based on the value the day will bring to you and in relation to what&#x27;s affordable to you, while recognising my time and energy designing and running the day (that&#x27;s why I&#x27;ve set the Eventbrite to &#x27;donate&#x27; - rather than a fixed cost for a ticket). What will the day involve?You will be going about your normal day. So, no major changes to your diary required except for the addition of a series of interventions as follows: 7.00 am - 7.45 am – Morning meditation and setting intentions for the day.9.15 am - 9.30 am – Inner resource meditation. Identify goals for the day ahead from a place of feeling safe, secure, belonging. Set tasks ahead.11.00 am – 11.15 am – Meditation: what’s real, what’s made up? Identifying tasks ahead12.45 am - 1.15 pm - Check-in: reflections on the morning. Short relaxation. I am enough. Identifying tasks ahead3.00 pm - 3.15 pm – Meditation: Paying attention. Identifying tasks ahead6.00 pm - 6.30 pm – Group check in, reflections and closing meditation. 9.00 pm – 9.40 pm – Deep relaxation (fall asleep if you want). Let me be clear. This is not a programme where a Guru tells you what you should be doing! There are plenty of people claiming a version of Enlightenment from which they teach. I can’t help feeling anyone truly enlightened would never claim they were. We’re in this mystery of life together! I’m offering this as someone curious in the practice, curious in my own journey as much of yours, and curious to know what happens when people engage together in becoming more aware in the midst of everyday life.I’m also not trying to say, hey, chill out, everything is lovely! My experience of that kind of ‘teaching’ has been one in which we start to deny some of what we are really witnessing. And it’s so frustrating – it creates another huge ‘should’: I should be calm, I should be present … The approach on offer here has a different tone and comes from teachings that invite the fullness of life right in. If you are angry, for example, rather than deny the anger, repress it or try and sidestep it, what happens if we fully acknowledge the anger as present, get to know it? Can we be at peace with the anger? Might we then find a place of conscious response rather than reactivity? About WillWill first began meditating as a student over 25 years ago, learning mindfulness and loving kindness meditations. After a long gap, and revitalised by yoga practices, Will came back to meditation as an important practice to both navigate and celebrate all that life offers. As a professional life coach his passion is in enabling people to feel fully alive and at peace - while also of course trying to do that himself! He is a Certified iRest teacher. More about Will at www.willmedd.com

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