How to Transcend the Habits of Your Mind and Awaken to Your Fullest Life

Welcome to my 10-day course on How to Transcend the Habits of Your Mind and Awaken to Your Fullest life.  I’m so excited to share with you an integration of teaching and practices that I have found most helpful in my own life to experience deeper well-being.

Do you:

·      Feel stressed

·      Walk around on automatic pilot, going through the motions of your day

·      Experience dis-ease or “blah”

·      Want ways to deepen well-being in your life

·      Get stuck in mental ruminations and mental forecasting (what ifs) and miss out on the now

·      Focus on negatives and miss the positive moments that are here

·      Have a sense that there is more to life that gets lost in the busyness of your days

You’ve come to the right place!

If you are looking to break out of old habits – ones that you may not even realize you’ve fallen into – and if you want to awaken to the fullest possibilities of your life, then please join me on this journey. 

 *If you’ve taken my other course on How to Cope with Stress, this class will complement what you learned and offer you a deeper dive.  If you are new to my teachings, no need to have taken my other course to get the full benefit from this class. 

*This course is a great companion to my book Dancing on the Tightrope:  Transcending the Habits of Your Mind and Awakening to Your Fullest Life

WHAT YOU GET:

• 10 Audios of approximately 10-15 minutes each
• Total running time: 1 hour, 30 minutes
• BONUS WHEN YOU PURCHASE THIS COURSE: You will receive my 1 hour video workshop From Surviving to Thriving:  Practical Tools for Reducing Stress and Cultivating Well-being. This workshop is a great complement to my 10 day audio course and will help you deepen your practice using various tools.
• Workshop description:  In order to show up as our best selves and create the conditions for optimal health and well-being , we need to know how to shift our physiology out of our often-habitual fight-flight stress response and turn on our "thriving" circuits.  In this webinar clinical psychologist Beth Kurland will share practical tools and mind-body practices that you can bring with you right into your day to increase mindful awareness, experience greater calm, step out of unhelpful narratives, and cultivate more renewing emotions.  From here you can meet yourself right where you are and create moments in which you can flourish.
• Please do not share the downloadable content with others. This is intended only for those who purchase this product.

Course Outline for 10 Day Course

DAY 1:  Introduction to the Four Mental Habits

Lesson one begins with a short meditation to connect with your intention for the class, and then lays a foundation for the ten-day class. You will learn why your brain is running on some outdated survival programs, and you will be introduced to the four mental habits we will be exploring.  We will discuss some good news about how these mental habits can become your greatest allies, and why you don’t have to wait for your life circumstances to change to experience greater well-being.  I will lay the groundwork for you to learn how to shift from surviving to thriving. (14:46 minutes)

DAY 2:  Working with the False Alarm – Understanding Our Stress Response

 In this lesson you will learn about the mental habit of the “false alarm.”  We will discuss the physiology of the stress response and why our habitual responses are not always so helpful in solving our modern-day challenges.  You will have an opportunity to reflect on how the false alarm shows up in your life and gain insight that can help you begin to think about and pay attention to your stress signals in a new way.  (11:08 minutes)

DAY 3:  The Stuck Dial and Our Wandering Mind

 In lesson three we will explore our second mental habit called the “stuck dial.”  You will gain insight into the nature of your wandering mind and I’ll share some examples of how this commonly shows up.  We will do a mini experiment for you to observe your mind.  You will gain greater insight into both the default setting of “automatic pilot” and the moments of presence that are possible. (9:41 minutes)

DAY 4:  The Noisy Person in the Movie Theater and the Stories We Tell Ourselves 

 In lesson four you will be introduced to “the Noisy Person in the Movie Theater” as our third mental habit.  You will learn about how the mental narratives that we construct can affect us in ways we often don’t realize, and we will explore the problem of taking our thoughts and stories at face value.  You will have an opportunity to reflect on how the “noisy person” shows up in your life and be encouraged to become increasingly aware of your inner dialogues. (10:03 minutes)

DAY 5:  The Velcro Problem and Our Negativity Traps

 In this lesson we explore the fourth of our mental habits called “the Velcro Problem.”  You will learn about the negativity bias of your brain and why it’s easier to remember and hold onto negative experiences rather than positive ones.  You will gain insight into how the Velcro Problem shows up in your life so that you can begin to notice this mental habit in ways you may not have before. (11:10 minutes)

DAY 6:  The power of the flashlight to see clearly

 This lesson offers an introduction to using the tool of “the flashlight”. You will learn about the power of the flashlight (a metaphor for mindful awareness) to help you see clearly when any of the mental habits are arising.  You will learn how, when you are the one observing what is occurring in the light of the flashlight, it shifts your relationship to what is happening and creates possibilities that weren’t there before. (13:44 minutes)

DAY 7:  Deepening Our Practice with the Flashlight

 We begin this lesson by exploring how focusing on our breath can help us step out of automatic conditioning.  A short meditation practice is offered using an anchor to notice the difference between being lost in thoughts, and noticing when you are lost in thoughts. We also work with another short exercise to help you further experience the power of the flashlight. (15:05 minutes)

DAY 8:  Cultivating Caring Attention and Using the Tool of the Diet. 

 After reviewing the power of the flashlight to help us step out of our mental habits, we work with a short meditation practice to help cultivate feelings of compassion and caring attention in addition to the mindful awareness that we are deepening.  I then introduce the tool of “the diet” and you will have a chance to discover through a short exercise how powerful our thoughts and words can be.  You will learn about a diet that can help transform how you experience difficulties. (14:57 minutes)

DAY 9: Deeper Work with the Diet, and Bringing the Magnifying Glass Into Our Day.

 Lesson nine gives you an opportunity to work more with the tool of the diet.  You will gain further insight into how the narratives of our minds contribute to our suffering, and you will learn some powerful ways to loosen the grip of the unhelpful narratives and create more nourishing and accurate ones.  I introduce the tool of the magnifying glass and we start to explore how this tool can help transform ordinary experiences. (15:37 minutes)

DAY 10:  Working with the Magnifying Glass

 In this last lesson you will learn how the magnifying glass can help to face life’s challenges with greater resilience, and how the magnifying glass can help improve relationships by seeing the good in others. We will work with two short meditation practices to experience of power of the magnifying glass.  The course will wrap up with a summary, circling back to where we began, and end with a poem to help remind you to use your tools. (16:16 minutes)

Your Instructor:

 Beth Kurland, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist, Tedx speaker, and author of three award winning books: "Dancing on The Tightrope: Transcending the Habits of Your Mind and Awakening to Your Fullest Life"; "The Transformative Power of Ten Minutes: An Eight Week Guide to Reducing Stress and Cultivating Well-Being"; and "Gifts of the Rain Puddle: Poems, Meditations and Reflections for the Mindful Soul."

 Beth is passionate about teaching mindfulness informed practices and mind-body strategies to help people cultivate whole person health and well-being, as she has experienced firsthand the power of these practices in her own life and with her patients.  She has been providing evidence-based clinical care to people across the lifespan for over 30 years. Through her meditations, courses, books and blogs, she offers others the opportunity to learn practical tools to move from stress to greater joy and ease, and to experience greater well-being.

DISCLAIMER:  Please note that this class is strictly for educational purposes only and is not intended as medical or psychological diagnosis, intervention or treatment of any kind.  If you are in need of such treatment, please seek the advice of your doctor or a licensed mental health professional.  What people get out of this class will vary from person to person and there are no guarantees of what your personal experience will be. In using these recordings you understand that Beth Kurland does not have a professional relationship with you and you agree that Beth Kurland will not be liable or otherwise responsible for any decisions or actions taken due to your use of the information presented.