” To cultivate positive non-attachment is to create a kind of joyful, enthusiastic appreciation that is tempered by even-mindedness & equanimity”
Dear Integral Meditators,
I became a father again last week for the second time. Observing my experience, and trying to capture it made me think quite a lot about how our joys and sufferings are inextricably interlinked. Below is an article that I wrote upon this subject in 2015, it holds as true for me today as when I wrote it!
This weeks Tuesday & Wednesday Online meditation classes will be on this subject!
Full details of Junes sessions and workshops, including an Emotional intelligence & Breathing meditation masterclasses can be found below!
Toby
Article: For every suffering a joy (Cultivating positive non-attachment
As my own experience of non-attachment has developed, I have found that it is also important to emphasize the joys that are associated with each of the sufferings contemplated, so that what you end up with is a kind of joyful, appreciative non-attachment, rather than a doom-and-gloom, sack-cloth-and-ashes type….
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Saturday 20th June, 3-5pm – Mindfulness for emotional intelligence masterclass
This masterclass will lead you on an experiential journey to:
- Understand what feelings, moods and emotions are and how to build an effective relationship to them
- How to consolidate and expand your existing emotional strengths
- How to deal with difficult and challenging emotions, and even turn them to your advantage
- How to increase the diversity/range of emotions that are available to you for enjoyment, pleasure and life-effectiveness!
Sunday 21st June, 6-7pm – Summer solstice balancing & renewing meditation (Livestream)
The Summer Solstice (Called by the Celts ‘Alban Hefin’, or ‘the Light of Summer’) is the high point of summer in the northern hemisphere, the point of the Suns maximum power in the year, & the longest day. It is a good time to attune the life-force in the earth & creative energies within ourselves. We will be taking the time to get in touch with our own inner power, solar confidence & expressive self.
Saturday 27th June, 2.30-5.30pm – Breathing meditation livestream masterclass
Learn a multi-faceted breathing meditation practice that helps you grow and learn in the face of life’s challenges, and connect you to deep inner stability.
Many mindfulness and meditation techniques use the breathing. However, with only superficial understanding meditation on the breathing can easily become stagnant, mechanical and, after a while boring! This masterclass teaches six complementary breathing techniques that will help you to…
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All upcoming classes and workshops for at IMA:
Ongoing on Wednesday’s, 7.30-8.30pm – Wednesday Meditation for stress transformation and positive energy with Toby (Bukit Timah)
Ongoing on Tuesday evenings, 7.30-8.30pm – Tuesday Meditation for stress transformation and positive energy with Toby (East Coast)
Ongoing Sundays 6-6.50pm – Qi gong energy body activation meditation (Livestream)
Saturday 20th June 10.30am-12noon – ONLINE Get your meditation practice started now – The shortest & most time effective meditation course ever
Saturday 20th June, 3-5pm – Mindfulness for emotional intelligence masterclass
Sunday 21st June, 6-7pm – Summer solstice balancing & renewing meditation (Livestream)
Saturday 27th June, 2.30-5.30pm – Breathing meditation livestream masterclass
Sunday June 21st, 28th – Qi gong workout class
Sunday 5th July, 6-7pm – Online Monthly Full Moon Meditation & Manifestation Session
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