mindfulness

From Andrea Marion:

Hosted by Andrea Marion, mindfulness guide.

Community Mindfulness- guided practice - The Pentad of Gladness - As we sit down, even with all our concerns, we take the meditation posture and feel an alignment with a sense of relief, relaxation, and centering body and breath. The mind quiets and shifts direction to a subtle calmness, centeredness, and groundedness. We can pick up these traces of the Gladness Pentad - relief/joy-happiness, stillness, equanimity, gladness in spaciousness. This is a chance to settle, be at ease, and gaze at the world kindly. As we finish practice and go on with our way, we can be settled and supportive of the welfare and happiness of others. 

Community Mindfulness started meeting in 2014, thanks to a grant from the Vermont Community Foundation to the City of Winooski. For information on the weekly Zoom/In Person Community Mindfulness practice and discussion, contact andreamarion193@gmail.com.

From Andrea Marion:

Andrea Marion gives an overview of Community Mindfullness.

What is Community Mindfulness? It is 20-minutes of guided mindfulness practice. This level of instruction is appropriate for beginners or experienced practitioners. There are many benefits! Brain studies show compassion and loving-kindness activity during mindfulness moments. Mindfulness decreases the stress response and biases as well as destructive thoughts, feelings and distortions around wants, needs and desires. (Wright, Sanguinetti, 2023).

This practice helps us learn not to be driven by emotions but to hold them in a beneficial way. As a result, our actions related to feelings change for the better. This positivity affects us as individuals and is also an opportunity for the wider collective.

14.2 % of the U.S. population practices some kind of mindfulness; and 6% of the population worldwide. (National Center for Complimentary Health, 2022).

Community Mindfulness started meeting in 2014, thanks to a grant from the Vermont Community Foundation to the City of Winooski. For information on the weekly Zoom/In Person Community Mindfulness practice and discussion, contact andreamarion193@gmail.com.

From Andrea Marion:

Your mindful awareness and focus happen naturally all the time. At the end of the day, those are the moments you remember, and intermittently this awareness reaches a significantly higher consciousness level. A deep insight or intuition arises that changes life in a small or grand way. This is a Lightenment Moment, which Andrea explores with guests in each show.