Mindfulness Based Living Course for people with long term health conditions with Catherine Lavelle and Val Gale.
We ran this course in autumn 2024.
Introduction
Click here to listen to the Introduction from the course handbook (24 minutes)
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Week 1
Click here to listen to Chapter 1 from the course handbook (16 minutes)
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Settling the mind practice (20 minutes) by Catherine
Week 2
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Settling the mind (first 10 minutes) and then memories of kindness (total length 19 minutes) by Val
Body scan (25 minutes) by Catherine
Week 3
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Settling, grounding and resting with sound (15 minutes) by Val
Settling with the breath (10 minutes) by Catherine
Breathing space (12 minutes) by Catherine
Week 4
Click here to listen to Chapter 4 from the course handbook (30 minutes)
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Settling, grounding, resting with the breath by Val (14 minutes)
Mindful movement session by Jan (17 minutes)
Extra session
Body scan by Val (22 minutes)
Week 5
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Noticing the undercurrent by Val (17 minutes)
Loving kindness for others by Catherine (15 minutes)
Week 6
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Loving kindness for self and others by Val (21 minutes)
Exploring the attitude of our observer in mindfulness practice by Catherine (20 minutes)
Safe space practice by Catherine (30 minutes, recorded on the Living with Ease meditation day)
Safe place practice by Rhona (25 minutes)
Safe place practice by Jan (25 minutes)
Week 7
Click here to listen to Chapter 7 from the course handbook (34 minutes)
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Self compassion break by Val (7 minutes)
Acceptance with RAIN by Catherine (22 minutes)
Dissolving pain to peace by Catherine (15 minutes)
A basic pain meditation by Catherine in which participants are invited to meet physical pain with mindfulness of breath and hold their pain in a wider dimension of being (27 minutes)
Week 8
Click here to listen to Chapter 8 from the course handbook (13 minutes)
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Soften, Sooth and Allow by Val (20 minutes)
Compassionate body scan by Catherine (27 minutes)
Follow up sessions
Click here to listen to the follow up session on Mindfulness skills for times of difficulty (18 minutes)
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“Yes” meditation and poem by Val (20 minutes)
Gratitude for the body by Catherine (30 minutes)
Calming and resetting the nervous system by Catherine (30 minutes)
Yes meditation by Val (20 minutes)
Compassionate mountain meditation by Val (30 minutes)
Body like a mountain
Breath like the wind
Mind like the sky
Sunshine of compassion
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