Course Description
How to Change Negative Patterns of Thought … and have way more fun, lightness and love in our life.
Being convinced that happiness and suffering all arise within the mind, we need to figure out how to cultivate the happiness inducing thoughts, and turn off all the thought streams that cause pain.
Step one is to identify the negative thought patterns…so that we can disengage from them.
Like bad songs in our mind, looping … .and magnifying themselves … .We can stop believing the harmful feelings these thought patterns produce. All the discomfort: anxiety, obsession, anger, depression, jealousy, … Completely stop feeding them. They are lying to us, Buddha calls it mistaken appearances, these minds are just not true.
We will use the special meditation on nature of the mind with which we can learn how to recognise these patterns early, and starve them out! These meditations are hugely liberating, opening us up to a whole new joyful and creative way to be truly alive.
Jan 09: Recognizing Negative Patterns of Thought
Jan 16: Letting Go of Anger, the best detox ever.
Jan 23: Dealing Skillfully With Unpleasant Feelings. They do not own you.
Jan 30: Obsessing – Mistaking Where Happiness Comes From..Cultivating flexibility
Feb 06: Jealousy Vs. Rejoicing.
Feb 13: How Envy Blocks Success
Feb 20: Insecurity Vs. Confidence
Feb 27: Freedom from Fear
Mar 06: Ignorance: the Root Delusion.
Mar 13: Freedom from Ignorance.
Teacher
Hank met Kadampa Buddhism in Los Angeles. Now living in Germany she uses these practical meditations to negotiate the new landscape of living in a foreign country. She is a student of the Teacher Training program of Tharpaland KMC and teaches in a creative and practical manner.