Mindfulness

 

• Mindfulness means the ability to maintaining a moment-by-moment awareness of our thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations, and the surrounding environment.

• Mindfulness also involves acceptance, meaning that we pay attention to our thoughts and feelings without judging them—without believing, for instance, that there’s a “right” or “wrong” way to think or feel in a given moment. When we practice mindfulness, our thoughts tune into what we’re sensing in the present moment rather than rehashing the past or imagining the future.                                                                                  

 

Benefits from Mindfulness Practice 

 

• To better manage stress and lost.To find greater satisfaction and happiness, to let go of the hurt, to build and deepen the relationship.

•  To find meaning and purpose in life, to rediscover a steady confidence that allows us to establish new goals and then to set out accomplish them.

• Improve physical and mental health: relieve stress, treat heart disease, lower blood pressure, reduce chronic pain, improve sleep, alleviate gastrointestinal difficulties, depression, substance abuse, eating disorders, anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder.

• To find greater satisfaction and happiness, to let go of the hurt, to build and deepen a relationship. and to find meaning and purpose in life.

• Some experts believe that mindfulness works, in part, by helping people to accept their experiences—including painful emotions—rather than react to them with aversion and avoidance. Less troubled by every day up and downs. 

 

About my skill and experience in Mindfulness Meditation.

• I grew up in Thailand where Theravada Buddhism is a major influence. My initiation to practice began at the knee of my grandmother. My learning started in kindergarten when I followed my grandma to the temples and when grandma meditated.

• In 1986  from age 16 I began a practice of meditation at Dhammakaya Temple. 

•  In 1988- 1991 she began to learn and had intensive practice about Sati (mindfulness ),  Vipassana meditation, and yoga with the Buddhist Art of Living Association, Chiang Mai University, where I explored a variety of meditation.

• Almost every weekend for 3 yrs. I did many 3-day silent retreats where I learned techniques related to living with nature and living in the moment.  The teaching style of this monastery was influenced by Thich Nhat Hanh, who visited and lived there.

• In 1975. Eventually, I had a chance to practice Mahayana with Ajan Kowith Kemananta, one of the famous mindfulness teacher, I discovered it best-matched my style. She also did 1-2 week Vipassana Meditation retreats regularly. This practice helped me to understand more deeply about the character and the power of the mind.

• At one point, one of my teachers tried to persuade me to become a monk, as I was very serious in my practice. But the way of my practice and learning was not a true match with Theravada and I preferred to share my path (without robes) and live a more difficult and colorful life suffering together with other ordinary people.

• In 1991 I began to practice a unique style of Sati or mindfulness with the famous monk Luangpor Teean, who taught body movement and body awareness techniques.  He taught me “open eyes meditation ", a very simple but powerful technique to use in every moment of daily life.

• In 1999, I started to practice it frequently as I started my yoga teaching career and designed my yoga classes around the practice of mindfulness.  I author the book of Mindfulness Yoga, a well-known book in Thailand.

• During the years when I was a Program Director at the Mindfulness Recovery Center in Thailand, I learned styles of meditation from the West through volunteers from all over the world who came to the foundation and offered sessions, courses, and retreats. she became familiar with MBSR and MBCT from volunteers, and also learned about Tonglen meditation from the Tibetan school.

• My mindfulness program focuses on Vipassana Meditation, body movement, breathing exercise, body scan and relaxation, meditation techniques and how to bring mindfulness into daily life.  I designed the mindfulness program for the International Mindfulness Recovery Community in Thailand and established the basis of its philosophy and mission. Mindfulness is a core of living in the community.

• Meanwhile, I continue her studies on different mindfulness techniques like Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) from Dr. John Kabat-Zinn as a candidate mindfulness teacher certification from Penn Mindfulness Program, University of Penn, Pennsylvania, USA. I'm also integrated and adapted Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) for use to the different need of my clients.

• Mindfulness practice is the most important way of living and powerful tool for taking care of myself.  It not separate from me. I bring mindfulness practice, true wisdom and deep compassion to all the areas of living, in my relationship and I  lives life in the same way that I guide people. My strong qualities are the ability to be present, compassion, deep listening, understanding, calming and relaxing energy. These combine to offer the best therapy.