Mindfulness – Mike New

I support people to create inner deep listening and quiet deep awareness connecting to the deep spring of wisdom within you. This is a way of being that is cultivated in many different societies including Japanese ecovillages where it is called “Kensan” and Australian Traditional Tribes where it is called “Dadirri”.

Mindfulness practice helps to cure grief, to get to know oneself better, bring clarity, deepen wisdom and peace, reduces pain, enhances sexuality and orgasmic-ness, improves decision making, improves moods and emotional resilience, boosts attention span and focus, enhances creativity and reduces loneliness . These benefits have been scientifically proven – see link here. When practiced in group settings it enables a collective Collective Heart / Mind / Wisdom to emerge.

Qualities of this practice include:

Curiosity – To embrace no knowing, to bring a love of new things, an attitude of openness and a beginners mind to exploring new ideas and possibilities
Group Wisdom – To trust in the process of the group to uncover the deepest group wisdom. Allowing the wisest answers to appear from any person. Not owning the ideas or being attached to where the come from.
Deep Listening – To listen with the ears, eyes, mind and heart. To hear what is said. To place great value on what another says, to have a desire to understand what is in another’s heart. To actively engage in dialogue.
Zero-Position – To suspend certainty, to have no personal bias and to put aside current belief systems and fixed positions or ideas. To listen and speak without attachment
One-Body – To have a world view that is inclusive, welcomes diversity and recognises that we live in a constant state of inter-connection with all other life
Respect – A commitment to value others, even through disagreement. To welcome diversity and to value equally the contribution of every other person
Acceptance – To welcome all that arises, to honour our differences and celebrate our common humanity. To recognise that change and disruption leads to greater harmony.
Trust – To feel safe in our groups, in our life, and the wider world To view life as supportive, and to remain secure, even in our uncertainty and not knowing