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While mindfulness is becoming a popular buzz word, it is important to understand the subtleties of the different powers of different practices.  Understanding this, you can make a rationale decision as to which program you want to pursue.   

There are several degrees of the power of the mindfulness that is developed through different mindfulness techniques.    

The first level  or degree of mindfulness is what I would call intermittent mindfulness.  This, is what is taught in many introductory mindfulness, or stress reduction programs and is more about recognizing when the mind has wandered and bringing it back to the present moment object ie. thoughts, sounds, or the breath.  Its focus is more on the attention capacity of our mind than nurturing strong and sustained mindfulness.  

The second degree of mindfulness is sustained mindfulness, and after training our attention repeatedly using a consistent methodology  we start to have greater success and habit of the mind focusing on the present moment.  The benefits of sustained mindfulness is that it yields increased clarity and greater resistance power to the negative states of mind.  It is a form of spiritual stamina and resistance.

The third degree of mindfulness, is full-power mindfulness.  This is when mindfulness and the associated mental states become dominant forces in the mind overpowering and obliterating the negative mind states and habits from repeating their habit formed behaviors.  The clarity, focus and understanding that arises from this level of practice provides the gateway to the ultimate outcomes that these practices offer.

While every higher practice level encompasses the lower forms of mindfulness as well, the lower forms do not guarantee reaching the higher forms.   It is better to choose a mindfulness method, that you can apply at all levels, so that you develop strong and healthy mindfulness habits that you will not have to change in the future.

For those who are Type A, you definitely want to chose a Full-Power mindfulness method.  This is how you can successfully bring your perfectionist mindset to the mindfulness practice and use it to your benefit.

My course, which is available online at www.mindfulness.business, has the potential to nurture full-power mindfulness and take you on the whole mindfulness journey with all the potential benefits, big and small.  Try it for yourself, whether you are new to mindfulness or have tried other programs and methodologies.  Having some aptitude at this labeling technique will only bring great benefit to whatever practice you decide to pursue wholeheartedly.  

I have trained in this method for more than 25 years with the world's leading teachers, and now I want to make these techniques accessible to you, without your having to incur the expense, the health consequences or the time of having to travel to distant and remote destinations overseas.  

​We have all had times where we lose our Mindfulness.  Sometimes these are small and seemingly insiginficant - a forgetful moment.  Sometimes we lose our mindfulness to a medium extent, for longer periods of time, and this is where starting with a moment, memories or emotions blast through and take charge presenting themselves and dominating our mind stream.  It could show as fits of anger, fits of sadness, screaming, yellling or even periods of pursuing pleasures to such an extent that it is to our own detriment.  These medium periods of lapses in mindfulness usually don't lead to any horrible acts to others.  In the most benign form these gaps might be recognized as "unaccounted periods of time" ("running on auto-pilot"), the mind ruminating- lost in fantasy, remembrance or preparation for the future and in a more serious form as bouts of anger, harsh speech and / or other destructive emotions and related activity.  

All of us have experienced many times when our mind is devoid of its better discretion or discernment and habits or emotional patterns take over without mindful restraint and have free rain until mindfulness and better judgment return  During the medium lapses in mindfulness, most of the harm is done to ourselves in the form of not being present to the present moment and all that this provides although many times, it also brings pain to those who are close to us.  Those fits of rage, yelling and screaming have an impact on our spouse, on our parents and most significantly on our children.  The times that we "model" losing our mindfulness in front of our children, often leads to our children mimicking our behavior, which is rooted in a lack of mindfulness.  Not the foundation that we probably wish to provide for them.

By the time we get to the state of egregious lack of mindfulness, which always comes about starting with the small and medium lapses in mindfulness, the harm that can be done extends to others as well as to ourselves can be quite significant.  For ourselves, it can lead to the loss of respect, or more seriously we might do something that breaks the law. To others, it can have lasting consequences and leave a negative imprint on their life that will bring about considerable suffering for them.

In any of these cases mentioned above, our loss of mindfulness will lead to self-blame and in the more serous cases, it will lead to blame by others and for some, it could even lead to blame by society, including time in jail.

In fact every day, we can see in the world reporting of people's lapses in mindfulness   It would be a CEO who makes sexual advances on employees or colleagues.  It could manifest as malfeasance and criminal activities by anyone from CEOs overseeing major frauds to rank and files employees increasing "shrinkage".  It also can manifest as speech that is harsh or untrue.  All of these are examples of what happens when there are gaps in our mindfulness.  And as more people act more outrageously and these acts are reported on daily, it can even lead to our own anger or outrage which, if we are not careful, may lead to us losing our own mindfulness and in turn may lead us to do things that we regret.  Or we may become cynical and feel defeated, which are also gateways to allowing negativity to enter our minds and lose our mindfulness.  And, by losing our own mindfulness we tread down the path numbing our sense of acceptable vs outrageous behavior and ultimately begin our descent into less mindfulness and ultimately more regrets. 

So really the case for increased mindfulness is really three fold.  One, it helps us avoid the lapses which lead to our own indiscretions  large and small.  Two, it helps us focus on positive things in our life so we attract more good, associate with better friends and companions, engage in useful debate and discussion and ultimately make better choices on a regular basis.  And finally and perhaps most importantly, it increases our intuition and knowledge so that we can differentiate between which activities and ventures we should engage in and do more of and which we should avoid or work to dispel.  

There is never a moment in my life, when I regret that I had more mindfulness and there are certainly times, as I come to appreciate what mindfulness is and the positive role it has in my life, that I wish I had or had had more.  I hope that we can agree on how this training would be essential for not only ourselves and our children, but our friends, our colleagues, the communities we are part of, and our work life as well.

Instituting a corporate mindfulness program does not need to be for the health benefits, the leadership and self-awareness benefits, the medical expense savings, or even pain reduction, all of which have proven and noteworthy gains.  It simply makes sense because helping people develop their own sense of judgment that will lead to greater fulfillment in their own lives, is actually a beneficial undertaking for decision making, for company profits and for the world we live in.

Mindfulness can easily be developed through systematic training, which starts with associating with those who are more mindful.  The younger we start this training, the greater the beneficial it can have throughout our lives. As as far as I am aware, no one has ever regretted being more mindful.  Get started today at www.mindfulnessmatters.training and bring a program to your company and community.

​Many people in the world live under the false belief that if they amass enough wealth they will be happy.  In fact, research shows that the marginal increase in happiness beyond an income of 75,000 is minimal.  

So the strength of people like you who have been successful, is that you have a drive and related skills that make you successful in a worldly sense, however, what brings you here is that you don't always have peace of mind or happiness.

This is not a new problem, it is an ancient one.  And this is why the Buddha to be, a prince at the time, gave up his wealth, walked away from his newborn and wife and began a journey to find true and lasting peace and happiness.  Siddartha Gautama, who came to be known as "Buddha" found what he was looking for, and shared it freely.  Today, 2500 years later there has been a resurgence and a growth in the availability of these teachings and western science is verifying the claims that these methods can help end suffering.

Now, we don't expect you to walk away from your wealth or families.  Instead, in the comfort of your homes and regular routines, we want to introduce you to mindfulness, a practice that is gaining traction because of the scientific studies that back up the self reported claims and benefits over millennium.

It turns out, there is a way to develop the qualities of mind and heart that make us and others happy and in this process of nurturing skillful mind states, reduce the mind's activity of those habits and patterns that undermine our success and cause difficulty for ourselves and others.

Simply put, mind qualities can be trained in a way similar to the way that body muscles can.  And there are proven methods and techniques to do so.

As part of your life journey I encourage you to investigate and learn more, especially now, when times are good.