Mindfulness Classes With Oli Doyle

Life is a happening! In today's class we discover the burden of me and learn how to experience life as an adventure!

Join me on a journey from one view - that identity is key and positive self-esteem the goal - to a radically different world in which engagement with life is the ultimate enjoyment.

What could be better?

If you are serious about enjoying life, you might also enjoy my book, Mindfulness Plain & Simple.

Thinking - the act of getting lost in thoughts - is a great way to miss out on life. It leaves you dwelling in two time zones (the past and the future) which you will never ever get to visit.

Thinking is always about what was or what might be, but life keeps happening now. Life is sharp, fast, a constant evolution, while thinking is dead. It is focussed on something that happened already, or something that might, a largely useless process.

Today, join the class and learn how to use thinking so thinking can't use you - learn how not to think. Even in these short 8 minutes you will already experience a world of quiet and calm, a world of simple peace. When are you waiting for?

Drama is no more than a vain attempt to control the world. It contributes nothing positive to you or those around you, whilst derailing your very attempts to influence the world.

Worse than that, drama is sneaky! It pretends to be necessary, justified and useful, when in reality it is no more than a waste of time and energy.

Because drama is sneaky, you must be alert to outsmart it. Keep watching thoughts and you will stay in control of the one thing that matters - where you place your attention.

Drama is the storm, but never forget that you are the sky.

If you embrace today's practice you will notice some dramatic changes. You will notice that, as expectations are replaced with interest, everyday life is infinitely more enjoyable.

Life in this instant is easy. Thinking about what should have been different is hard. Which will you choose?

Ordinarily, we see life through thought, and our thinking determines our quality of life. It directs our worries, fears, joys and anxieties. Thinking has a lot of power.

But there is another element to your experience right now; there is someone who is conscious of the whole experience. There is a watcher, there in the background. Could that watcher be you?

Today, come on a journey into the world of non-thinking, a simple, peaceful place, with nothing to do, and no need to be anything special. The joy of dropping all thinking will amaze you.

Wake up today, wake up! Wake up! Not out of sleep but out of thinking, which is not only a dream world, but also makes you tired, unlike the rejuvinating state of real sleep.

If your awareness is absorbed in thought, you are not truly alive, nor dead, just dragging along.

Today, I invite you to wake up out of this half life into the electric world of the body. The energy, stillness and aliveness is incredible, and I hope you enjoy it.

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So far this week, I’ve talked about all the things that keep changing, but there is something inside you that has stayed the same ever since you were born, maybe even before!

You do have an identity of sorts. There is one constant in your life: the awareness that exists in the background, watching, and mindfulness practice can take you into this awareness and out of stress right now.

Most of what we call 'me' is really just an experience; a thought, a situation, a body, a job. But if these so-called experiences aren't me, then what is? A largely neglected element of mindfulness practice is the art of self-awareness, sensing yourself as the watcher of all experiences.

Most teachers ignore this and treat mindfulness as a mind training exercise instead, but this misses the most powerful part. Realising that you are not who you think you are is the greatest gift of this practice and of any type of meditation. It releases you from the cycle of worry-scheme-stress-react-worry-scheme-stress that most humans are completely caught in. It also destroys the idea of a time based self, which ends the reliance on past and future.

Instead of ignoring this challenging place, I invite you to lean into it, and to realise that thoughts and experiences are there to be enjoyed, but there is something else that endures through the ever-changing craziness we call life.

As we enter week 4 of this mindfulness un-course, it is time to recognise that which has caused all our pain, our fear and anger and frustration; Me.

The common element of stress is always your sense of being a separate 'me' in a world that won't behave. Learn to drop the self built on thoughts, opinions and beliefs and you will discover a freedom you never thought possible.

So this week is all about 2 things: recognising the falseness of this constructed self and discovering who we really are. Let us start by checking if this self really is made up.

Today I will show you how to access the stillness inside whenever you want to. If you're feeling strung out, lost in this fast paced world, this practice can be your refuge regardless of the circumstances of your life.

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