Managing Through Life’s Changes: Don’t Just Survive – Thrive!
How often do you find yourself lost in thought – either negatively forecasting the future or longing for life “back in the day”? How does this habit of thinking impact your everyday health and well-being? What if you could strike that middle ground, where you could simply embrace the present and all its possibilities?
Join this reward-eligible webinar to learn very practical strategies and quick mindfulness practices to help you stay focused on the present and embrace all the moments that matter most to you, and to learn about the 2024 Hoos Well reward-eligible 1% Challenge that begins on Sept. 9.
Learning Objectives
- Learn how stress affects physical health and emotional well-being and how to identify and manage its triggers.
- Understand the habitual nature of worry and how mindfulness can help manage the worry cycle when it arises.
- Know how resistance to change causes distress and have skills to avoid getting locked in the past to allow for moving forward.
- Experience a practice in awareness of breathing to observe and let go of stressful, repetitive thoughts about the past or the future.
About Your Presenter
Jim Austin is a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)-certified Mindfulness Teacher. Jim has been practicing mindfulness since 1975, almost his entire adult life. His practice has aided him in becoming more present and intimate with his own internal experience, which Jim feels has led to him making better life choices…more of the time. He also feels he is able to recover easier from those times when there have been setbacks, job or relationship stresses and personal failures.
Jim manages an attention deficit condition, which he attributes to being possibly the main reason he was drawn to mindfulness practice in the first place! Mindfulness has been the most effective strategy for dealing with his attention deficit condition, better than any medication that he has tried. Jim also feels his mindfulness practice keeps things on an even keel and creates a sense of confidence in his ability to deal with and be resilient to the inevitable stresses of life. Jim loves playing all kinds of music with all kinds of people. His favorite instrument of the moment is the fiddle.