How Do We Meet our Experience?
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We are very clear about what we like and dislike. This is beautifully exemplified in social media. We can even form a strong sense of identity around our preferences. But this way of meeting experience can be problematic for us because of how we then respond to our experience:
We want more of what we like - DEMAND
We don't want what we dislike - DEFEND
We seek satisfaction elsewhere when we aren't interested - DISTRACT
In this way we endlessly push and pull with our experience. We are not in direct contact with the experience itself. We are too busy demanding more of it, defending against it, or distracting ourselves from it.
And so we feel disconnected, stressed, and overwhelmed. We feel that we need more, we don't have enough, we have too much of what we don't want, and we don't notice quiet experiences, like the wind on our faces, the sun on our skin, the sound of our friend's smile in their voice. We hold ourselves separate from the deep resourcing that comes from direct experience; the ease and nourishment of resting in what is without needing it to be any different.
Join Aubrey on this one-day workshop
Take a deep dive in to how we habitually meet and wrestle with experience in a day of talks, discussion, and experiential mindfulness exercises from a certified Mindfulness teacher trained by two world-renowned teachers, Martin Aylward & Mark Coleman of the Mindfulness Training Institute.
Learn to see this tendency of pushing and pulling with experience, to notice its effect on your feeling of overwhelm and energy, and how to loosen your grip and open up to the rejuvenation of relaxing in to things just as they are.
£75
"A beautiful course that came at the right time for me. It has supported me to create a holding of spacious awareness around bodily sensations of trauma which increasingly allows them to arise & pass. I particularly enjoyed the content and tone of talks that grounded teaching in mundane, relatable stories, which offered a simple container for universal truths."
How Much Can you Control?
Sometimes when things are going well we can feel like we have control over our lives. But really
the Universe does what it does
Conditions don't arrange themselves around what we need to be safe, loved, content, alive, happy.
When we can look deeply in to our experience we see that all we can control is how we relate to the experience that arrives. Can we release our grip on trying to control the ocean tides and currents and instead learn to ride the waves that life gives us?
When we meet our experience without pushing or pulling or demanding that it be different, then we become more flexible and present to enjoy and grieve fully what happens in our lives.