New 6 week series at Glendale Community College , Community Services Education

I am very excited to be continuing my classes at Glendale Community College, Community Services Education! My new series starts September 21. You can register online. My class is called Mindful Meditation and is under Personal Development. http://seco.glendale.edu/cse/

"Nurture Positive" Meditation Class August 27

August 27 Mind in Body yoga studio, Burbank 10am to 11:30

Introductory Mindfulness Meditation Class August 20

August 20, Mind in Body yoga studio, 10am to 11:30

Nuturing Positive

"Nurturing Positive" as a meditation technique is a"constructive"one, as opposed to many techniques that are focusing on and deconstructing aspects of our moment to moment experience.

"Nurturing Positive" is an opportunity to be creative and purposeful in our focus of something positive in our lives...be it a positive aspect or emotion, behavior change, thinking, ideal, situation, or sending it to someone or something outside of ourselves.

Working in this positive way helps us to have a balanced and complete meditative process and experience.

It can also be very fun and enjoyable......... so relax and enjoy the process

The instruction for "Nurture Positive" meditation

1. First choose a specific theme.

for example: a positive feeling or emotion, a behavior you want to change, a goal you want to achieve, a personal ideal you'd like to aspire to, a positive situation you would like to see for yourself or someone else, a more positive thought pattern, etc. You get the picture.....just decide on one for this period of meditation. Don't get overwhelmed...you can keep it simple.

2a. For a few minutes you mentally repeat a word or phrase that represents the specific theme you have chosen. At the same time, tuning into any pleasant sensation that may be related to that positive theme.

Then....

2b. For a few minutes, you create a mental image that represents the specific theme you have chosen. At the same time, you focus on that mental image and any pleasant emotional body sensations related to that positive theme.

3. Based on your experience of 2a and 2b, decide on working in a way that comes most naturally.

a. in Image

b. in Talk

c. in Emotional body feeling

d. Image and Talk

e. Image and Emotional body feeling

f. Talk and Emotional body feeling

g. freefloating between Image, Talk and Emotional body feelings

4. Hold the theme in your chosen mode of working for a set period of time