Take Back Your Mind: “The Most Useful Class I Have Ever Taken”
I got this message last week from Joseph Scangarella about the Take Back Your Mind program.
“Holy crap. I love the stuff in your other classes. So much useful goodness. But TBYM is the most useful class I’ve ever taken. Not even done and it’s vastly improved my life. In fact my grades have been so good that I made Phi Theta Kappa honors society and Deans list.”
This course is different than most mindfulness programs. Most teachings on meditation talk about finding calm and peace. Calm and peace are important, but they are a side effect, not the goal. The goal is to take back what has been stolen from you: your attention span, your self-awareness, your ability to act from your own will rather than the push and pull of habit and external conditions. The Goal is to wake up: to be present, self possessed, and in command of tools and powers you did not even know you had.
Some meditation teachers make it sound like they want you to be dead from the neck down, I want you to be fully alive. Fully transcendent and fully engaged with the world at the same time. The goal of this class is not just to keep your clarity and calm, but to increase your sharpness and edge.If we are going to Take Back Our Minds wile still maintaining a fully engaged life filled with work, family, friends, success, adventure, and joy, we need a program designed with that life in mind – not an approach based on the lives monks or contemplatives and which treats ordinary life as an obstacle. This program treats your ordinary life as a platform for mindfulness, not a barrier to it.
How the course works
The Take Back Your Mind Method revolves around first establishing practices to fit three type of time:
1. Cushion Time: Formal Meditation sessions done once or twice a day.
2. Mindful Moments: Formal short sessions that link your cushion sessions together and carry their benefit into your daily routine
3. Idle Time: Time set aside specifically for unstructured time where the mind can manifest the play of awareness
On this foundation is built a series of exercises, modes of thought, and teachings designed to conquer specific obstacles that arise, deepen our mindfulness, and transcend the boundaries of what we thought possible.
Every Monday for three months you will wake up to a recording in your inbox that gives the mind-training instructions I want you to focus on incorporating into your life. Throughout the week you will get additional material such as videos, shorter recordings, quotations, and links to support your progress and place those teachings into proper context.
How do I start?
Fee for the course is $300. You can pay in one payment of three payments of $100.
ONE PAYMENT OF $300
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