Heartfulness
living with ease and compassion
***Heartfulness is now LIVE on Udemy***
WELCOME TO HEARTFULNESS
WHERE Your MIND BOWS TO THE WISDOM OF your HEART
Heartfulness is a 5-part digital course, created by Tim James and myself, the purpose of which is to help you reduce stress and suffering and live with greater ease, presence and happiness, every day.
We are so excited to share Heartfulness with you. Heartfulness is the culmination of Tim and my personal and professional journey of understanding and practice, our way of remaining connected to the natural peace, compassion and resilience of being, and relating to our human experience and suffering from there.
Our Heartfulness path is a compassionate and inclusive one, weaving together Buddhist teachings, modern science and psychology to help you understand the dynamics of stress and suffering, ways to relate to it and find freedom from it for a life of greater joy, freedom and ease.
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What is Heartfulness?
Tim and I love the term Heartfulness. To us, Heartfulness is:
an understanding that what we essentially are is heart essence - with the tool of a mind, a heart-mind
a recognition that in the ancient Pali language, used in the earliest Buddhist texts, the word "citta" means both heart and mind. Since the same word is used for both, heartfulness adds a deeper, more compassionate meaning to the idea of “mindfulness.”
all inclusive, all welcoming, all appreciative
This exciting, new 5-part digital course is designed to help you bring greater happiness, ease and joy into your life.
It all started when…
Fellow meditation teacher Tim James and I discussed how Mindfulness is often misunderstood in the West, often believed to be a practice of relating purely to the mind, when it is an all-inclusive practice, and way of being and living, that compassionately holds the mind, body and emotions in pure, radiant presence, both independent of and completely intimate with all we experience.
In the ancient Asian languages from which mindfulness emerged, the word for heart and mind are the same, thus our English translation of mindfulness subtly misses this important point, that mindfulness includes the heart, emotions, the body, everything.
This heart of our Being, self-aware presence, that we fundamentally are, remains unchanged and cannot be harmed by anything we might experience in our human experience. And more than that, mindfulness is not just the presence or aware Being that knows our experience but is the underlying energetic essence with which the whole universe is made.
Tim and I like to call this essence Heartfulness because in English it captures that all-inclusive nature of mindful presence, our true nature.
What does this mean?? Well, put simply, we have everything we need to live a life free of suffering, stress and anxiety if only we knew to recognise our true nature of Being and live from there.
Still unsure what I’m going on about? That’s OK. If you are even a little bit interested in the notion of a life free of suffering, then this course may be for you!
Our Heartfulness course series embodies an all-inclusive and loving awareness of body, mind, feelings and the oneness or interconnection between these apparently separate aspects of ourself and our experience. With Heartfulness we practice kindness and compassion towards ourself, others and whatever experiences we have.
Heartfulness honours the sacredness of each and every moment.
In this course, Tim James and I will share teachings, experiential activities, scientific understanding and guided practices to help you rest as and live from the wise and compassionate awareness, or Being, that lies at the heartful essence of mindfulness. Your Being. Our shared being.
We are sure putting our heart and soul into this course along with everything we’ve learned from our 38 (collective) years of personal meditatoon experience, along with the combined 28 years of experience teaching and guiding others.
