WELCOME to Week 1 - Awareness (Part 1)
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In this module, we’ll explore meditations and practices designed to help you to learn about and develop more mindful awareness. Watch these videos introducing Awareness and explaining the concept of mindfulness, then choose activities to try from the head, heart and hand sections, below.
Head: What is Awareness?
Now you’ve watched these introductory videos, let’s try some of the mindful awareness-building techniques!
Try to do exercises in each of the categories of Heart, Head, and Hand.
Heart
Try to do one of these guided meditations at least five days per week. It's fine to repeat them, and also to use others that you like.
- Recommended Meditation: Breath Meditation with Sharon Salzberg (10 min)
- Still and Still-Moving Body and Breath meditation with Ruth King (10 min)
- Breath-Focused Meditation with Jane Compson (13 min)
- Mindfulness of Breathing meditation with Bodhipaksa (24 min)
- Meditación de 5 minutos de UCLA (5 min)
- Meditación Completa de UCLA (14 min)
Head
See if you can do at least one activity per week: Watch videos, read articles, or listen to podcasts.
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Hand
Explore the on-the-go activities below - see if you can incorporate them into your day They take just a few minutes - or less!
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Tacoma-Based Resources
General Resources
Mindful.org is web site where you can find all kinds of resources and articles related to mindfulness. You can subscribe to receive regular content, or you can just visit when you want to.
