Purley Chase Spiritual Centre Warwickshire 29th June to 1st July 2012
This weekend residential event focuses on mindfulness. This is suitable for anyone who is aware of being sometimes surrounded by disharmony and problems. Who wants to experience feeling less disconnected, drained, or distressed by what goes on around them.
What is mindfulness?
Through mindfulness meditation one can learn a mindful attitude at all times. This involves an awareness of the reality of things and being in the moment.
What does it achieve?
Mindfulness helps us to take a step back and see things as they are rather than in terms of our desires and fears. We become less occupied by mistakes of the past and worries about the future and more easily able to rise above self-interested concerns and fears.
Where does religion come into this?
Becoming more mindful means being conscious of the eternal now. This is an
illuminating perception that transcends time-bound concerns. It flows from the
Divine Mind which is both present within and also beyond time and place. One
needs to lose oneself in this flow in order to find oneself.
Stephen Russell-Lacy us a psychologist who has worked for many years as a
psychotherapist for the National Health Service. He is also an experienced
worship leader recognised by the New Church. With both of these hats on, he is
interested in applying his experience and in-depth knowledge of Swedenborg to
resolve issues that most of us face in our daily lives.
Carole Russell-Lacy trained as a sculptor following her visual arts education and has run a business selling her figurative fountain designs all over the UK and abroad. She is interested in sharing her appreciation of universal spiritual principles.
