What
WHAT IS MIND
01
Attention
Guided meditation strengthens attention and awareness.
This involves choosing an object of attention and strengthening our ability to focus on it.
In our practice, we choose to focus on the breath.
The mind is a muscle.
To strengthen our bodies, we exercise. To strengthen our minds, we meditate.
As we meditate, the mind wanders. By gently guiding our attention back to the breath, we strengthen the muscle of attention – like how adding and releasing tension builds muscles in weight training.
02
Focus
03
Compassion
We teach/foster compassion.
MIND guided meditation integrates/weaves compassion and empathy throughout the practice. By encouraging participants to observe their thoughts without judgement, they learn to accept both themselves and others and to approach situations with kindness.
Increased compassion means more collaborative teams, better work outcomes and happier employees.
We help participants achieve a mentally clear and emotionally calm state.
04
Calm
What
WHAT IS MIND
01
Attention
Guided meditation strengthens attention and awareness.
This involves choosing an object of attention and strengthening our ability to focus on it.
In our practice, we choose to focus on the breath.
The mind is a muscle.
To strengthen our bodies, we exercise. To strengthen our minds, we meditate.
As we meditate, the mind wanders. By gently guiding our attention back to the breath, we strengthen the muscle of attention – like how adding and releasing tension builds muscles in weight training.
02
Focus
03
Compassion
We teach/foster compassion.
MIND guided meditation integrates/weaves compassion and empathy throughout the practice. By encouraging participants to observe their thoughts without judgement, they learn to accept both themselves and others and to approach situations with kindness.
Increased compassion means more collaborative teams, better work outcomes and happier employees.
We help participants achieve a mentally clear and emotionally calm state.
04
Calm
How
HOW MIND WORKS
To understand the benefits of meditation, we must first understand how our minds and memories work.
Throughout the day, we receive millions of new stimuli. These are observed and recorded by our short term (or working) memory.
During periods of limited stimulation, most notably during sleep but also during meditation, habitual exercise, or prayer, these memories are transferred from short term to long term memory.
Now, when we access long term memory, it is not like going into a filing cabinet — pulling out one memory or another. Rather, we create complex associations with each experience and sensory stimuli.
For example, when looking at a traffic cone, we access our long term memory and are able to create associations with other orange items – a pumpkin, an orange, a life vest, etc. – despite each having very different use cases.
This network of long term memory is called a scheme. It is what allows us to have those deep, often creative or complex, thoughts — and experience those “Ahha!” moments.
However, if our working memory is constantly stimulated, such as by the incessant alerts of our devices, we do not allow time and space for those short term memories to move to long term memories.
We remain in a constant state of stimulating our working (or short term) memories, we only allow for surface thoughts
— preventing deep thought.
MIND trains focus - empowering us to remove distraction and allow for deep thought.
How
HOW MIND WORKS
To understand the benefits of meditation, we must first understand how our minds and memories work.
Throughout the day, we receive millions of new stimuli. These are observed and recorded by our short term (or working) memory.
During periods of limited stimulation, most notably during sleep but also during meditation, habitual exercise, or prayer, these memories are transferred from short term to long term memory.
Now, when we access long term memory, it is not like going into a filing cabinet — pulling out one memory or another. Rather, we create complex associations with each experience and sensory stimuli.
For example, when looking at a traffic cone, we access our long term memory and are able to create associations with other orange items – a pumpkin, an orange, a life vest, etc. – despite each having very different use cases.
This network of long term memory is called a scheme. It is what allows us to have those deep, often creative or complex, thoughts — and experience those “Ahha!” moments.
However, if our working memory is constantly stimulated, such as by the incessant alerts of our devices, we do not allow time and space for those short term memories to move to long term memories.
We remain in a constant state of stimulating our working (or short term) memories, we only allow for surface thoughts
— preventing deep thought.
MIND trains focus - empowering us to remove distraction and allow for deep thought.
