Stone River Elearning – Successful Meditation

“Stone River Elearning – Successful Meditation” is likely a course offered by Stone River Elearning focusing on teaching the principles and practices of successful meditation. Here’s what you might expect from this course:

• Introduction to Meditation: An overview of what meditation is, its benefits, and the different types of meditation practices available. This may include mindfulness meditation, guided meditation, breath awareness, and more.
• Practical Meditation Techniques: Instruction on various meditation techniques and practices designed to cultivate relaxation, mindfulness, and inner peace. This may include breathwork, body scan meditation, loving-kindness meditation, and visualization exercises.
• Creating a Meditation Routine: Guidance on how to establish and maintain a regular meditation practice. This may involve tips for finding the right time and space for meditation, overcoming common obstacles, and setting realistic goals.
• Managing Thoughts and Emotions: Strategies for managing thoughts, emotions, and distractions during meditation. Participants may learn how to cultivate a non-judgmental awareness of their inner experiences and develop greater emotional resilience.
• Stress Reduction and Relaxation: Techniques for using meditation as a tool for stress reduction, relaxation, and promoting overall well-being. Participants may learn how to use meditation to calm the mind, reduce anxiety, and improve sleep quality.
• Mindfulness in Daily Life: Instruction on how to integrate mindfulness principles and practices into everyday activities and routines. This may include mindfulness exercises for eating, walking, working, and communicating with others.
• Benefits of Meditation: Exploration of the research and science behind meditation and its effects on physical health, mental health, and overall quality of life. Participants may gain insight into how meditation can promote resilience, creativity, and emotional intelligence.
• Self-Reflection and Journaling: Opportunities for self-reflection and journaling to track progress, insights, and experiences with meditation. Participants may be encouraged to reflect on how meditation is impacting their lives and relationships.
• Support and Accountability: Connection to a community of fellow participants for support, encouragement, and accountability. This may include discussion forums, group challenges, and opportunities for sharing experiences and insights.

Overall, “Successful Meditation” with Stone River Elearning offers a comprehensive introduction to meditation, providing practical techniques and guidance for cultivating a successful meditation practice and integrating mindfulness into daily life.

Consistency is key to meditation. The invitation is to be gentle with yourself. In the beginning set aside 10 minutes per day, Monday to Friday at the same time. Take a break for the weekend and come back to your practices on Monday.

A successful meditation practice will cut to the core of the distractions around you and help you to clearly identify what personal success means to you. The more time you are able to dedicate to your inner journey, the more skill you will have a noticing things and solving problems thereby becoming productive in your daily life. You will find that your interactions with others become a source of satisfaction and as a result you can redefine what happiness means to you.

This course contains over 50 lectures and 3.5+ hours of content! It is designed for you if you are curious about incorporating a meditation practice into your busy life.

I strongly believe in 3 key ideas:

#1) Education – learn about what matters to you;

#2) Coaching – practice and embody that learning; and

#3) Leadership – show up “fully and in presence” with others.

Every section in this course has an introduction and overview video and wraps up with some action steps to embody the learning. The more you can practice and apply what you learn in the sections determines the results you’ll get.

Section #1 – Learn about what makes meditation successful (HINT: it’s all about you!) and the potential benefits that may be possible for you. Along the way, the invitation is to notice the potential hurdles that may get in the way of you establishing your meditation practice. Becoming aware of this is a major step!

Section #2 – We’re going to just jump in with a 10-minute “barely guided” meditation that will get you ed right away! This is so that you will know _for yourself_ just what it means to meditate. Remember, there’s no right. There’s no wrong. Follow along with this simple guided meditation any way you want and notice what shows up for that. That’s it!

Section #3 – In this section, we’ll take a look at some of the key Vedic Frameworks that support meditation such as reincarnation, karma and dharma. In particular we will take a look at Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtras and see how meditation fits into the inner goal of human life. We will also take a look at the 8-limbs of traditional yoga.

Section #4 – Learn about the 5 elements of earth, water, fire, air and ether and how you can incorporate it into your meditation practice. Also learn how to make your body comfortable so that you can lengthen and deepen your meditations easily.

Section #5 – We get into the “good stuff” of guided meditations here. Follow along with the 10 minute guided meditations and allow yourself to notice. Take conscious control of your awareness and learn to dive within.

Section #6 – Congratulations! You’ve done it! All you need to do is continue along your path.

Section #7 – This section will contain other resources and supplementary materials that will help you on your inner journey.