Catherine Flanagan Mindfulness Meditaton
Cultivate a clear and kind non-judgmental awareness.
Rest in a calm and clarity that goes beyond words, beyond the thinking mind.
Mindfulness meditation enables us to experience our lives beyond words, beyond the analytic mind’s commentary, making space for joy and compassion toward ourselves and others. It gradually softens the mind’s tendency to compare, judge and blame.
About Mindfulness Meditation
Mindfulness meditation is a simple practice that focuses the mind and opens the heart. We observe without judgment the moment-to-moment experience of physical sensations, thoughts and emotions. Over time, mindfulness meditation cultivates a clear, stable and non-judgmental awareness that instills a greater calm and clarity to everyday life. Mindfulness meditation can also be a spiritual path that leads to greater wisdom by gradually dissolving unhealthy mental and emotional habits that block freedom and growth.
The two components of mindfulness meditation are awareness and compassion. By teaching us to accept what is, the practice nurtures compassion. It gradually softens the mind’s tendency to compare, judge and blame which obstruct our natural generosity. Mindfulness meditation is based on Buddhist practices that have helped people over millennia.
Benefits of Mindfulness
Settling the mind
Much of our anxiety is caused by the mind’s incessant chatter, which is quieted when we touch into the body’s sensations.
Connecting to the body’s wisdom
Mindfulness helps us to live from our heart and our intuition, as well as from our intellect.
Regulating emotion
Becoming aware of the ways we habitually react to situations in everyday life, we gain space to choose our response.
Accepting what is
As we notice and feel what arises within, we become kinder to our imperfect selves and our imperfect lives.
Cultivating compassion
Mindfulness meditation is specifically designed to nurture compassion toward self and others, an attitude that fosters intentional growth and improvement.
Thinking More Clearly
Mindfulness helps improve cognitive function and increase focus, and concentration.
Catherine teaches mindfulness meditation and compassion practices at the Washington D.C. Center for Mindful Living, where she is on its leadership team.
She offers private classes and trainings to new and continuing meditators and to businesses and organizations.
