Help! I Can't Stop Thinking -10 day course
13 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago -COURSE DESCRIPTION: This is a 10 day course. Mark Twain once said, "I'm an old man, I have had many problems, and most of the never happened." How true this statement is! This course is based on my 30 plus years of experience of practising and teaching meditation and mindfulness. I have observed over these years that the primary problem most people have is that they over-think. Their mind is restless, out of control and just chatters away all day long. This overthinking restless mind is the cause of much anxiety, fear, dread and even some physical ailments. Don't get me wrong, the thinking mind is a wonderfully creative tool - it creates beautiful works of art, creates scientific breakthroughs, creates wonderful architecture and so on, but it also creates something else, it creates suffering. The aim of this course is to show you why you overthink and what to do about it. Each session contains a short talk, a meditation or contemplation and tools and techniques for you to takeaway for every day life. YOUR PODCASTER: Suryacitta is an ordained Buddhist minister and author of five books on meditation, mindfulness and happiness, including the best selling Happiness and How it Happens available from Amazon and good book stores. He has worked on both BBC tv and BBC radio and teachers retreat around the UK and Europe.
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Short Intro to Ten Day Course
September 24, 2021 12:00 - 1 minute - 1.39 MBThis a a very short introduction the the 10 day course on Help! I Can't Stop Thinking Each session includes, a short talk, a meditation and tools and techniques for everyday use. Support the show (https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=HEW5RH59VQJYJ)
Intro to Ten Day Course
September 24, 2021 12:00 - 1 minute - 1.39 MBThis a a very short introduction the the 10 day course on Help! I Can't Stop Thinking Each session includes, a short talk, a meditation and tools and techniques for everyday use. Support the show (https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=HEW5RH59VQJYJ)
1, Help! I Can't Stop Thinking
September 21, 2021 12:00 - 16 minutes - 11.4 MBCall it what you will, overthinking, or a busy mind, but thoughts cause so many of our problems, or at least our fascination and belief in them. In this talk and short meditation, Suryacitta - the happy buddha - talks about why you have a busy chattering mind and what to do about it. Included in this session: Short talk Short meditation Tools and techniques for everyday life Support the show (https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=HEW5RH59VQJYJ)
2, Parable of the Two Daggers
September 20, 2021 12:00 - 13 minutes - 9.59 MBIn this session Suryacitta is going to show you in no uncertain terms just how you create your own suffering, and how to stop this. He also clarifies the difference between suffering and pain with the telling of a one of the most simple and profound images from the story of the two arrows. If you understand this parable you will understand how you create many problems. The session will include a teaching, a meditation and suggestions for daily life. Support the show (https://www.paypal.com...
3, Who's this in the car with me?
September 18, 2021 12:00 - 13 minutes - 9.36 MBHow many conversations do you have each and everyday with people who are not actually with you, nor are you on the phone with them? When you think about this you will realise you have lots of them. This is how many of us spend our time. We may be in a beautiful park but we are lost in our head “chatting” to people who are not with us. These conversations may be anything from arguing with the boss or your partner to planning a dream holiday/vacation With a good friend. Support the show (htt...
4, How to let go of over-thinking
September 17, 2021 12:00 - 13 minutes - 9.37 MBEver been fishing or watched somebody do it? The person fishing puts some bait on the hook and unfortunately for the fish it bites not only into the bait but also onto the hook. It can’t get free no matter how much it struggles. Thoughts are like hooks, they come along and we “hook” into them, and not being able to get free we think even more. During this session we are going to explore more deeply the wonderfully simple art of unhooking. Included in the session is a meditation on unhookin...
4, Fishing and the art of letting go of over-thinking
September 17, 2021 12:00 - 13 minutes - 9.37 MBEver been fishing or watched somebody do it? The person fishing puts some bait on the hook and unfortunately for the fish it bites not only into the bait but also onto the hook. It can’t get free no matter how much it struggles. Thoughts are like hooks, they come along and we “hook” into them, and not being able to get free we think even more. During this session we are going to explore more deeply the wonderfully simple art of unhooking. Included in the session is a meditation on unhookin...
5, For goodness sake, stop watching your ME movie
September 16, 2021 12:00 - 12 minutes - 8.53 MBIf we are honest we will admit that we are self-obsessed. This is not a judgement but a simple statement from years of observation. It’s like we are in a movie cinema and it’s playing a movie called ME. This movie, the thoughts in our head keeps playing the same old repeats of past and of future hopes and fears. And our lives are often lost fluctuating between hope and fear. Included in the session is a meditation, an exercise around the “ME” movie and a talk on how pay attention not just ...
6, How you create heaven and hell
September 15, 2021 12:00 - 15 minutes - 10.8 MBMost of us know that heaven and hell are not real places we go to, but that they are states of mind. But do we know how we create these states? Do we realise that the mind is a story teller and that heaven and hell depends on that story and how it is received by the audience - YOU! Suryacitta - the happy buddha will show you how this happens and what to do about it. There will be a talk and a meditation. If you appreciate the course please make a small donation below. Support the show ...
7, What we feel, we heal
September 13, 2021 12:00 - 14 minutes - 9.78 MBMuch or our over thinking is a way of protecting ourselves from feeling. When we live in our head in this way these feelings and emotions can become “lodged” in the body. What these feelings and emotions need is to be healed, and feeling them for just a moment can begin this glorious process. What we feel we heal is the theme for this session. In this session there will be a teaching and a meditation on feeling leads to healing. There will be a meditation and a talk. Support the show (http...
8, Bursting your Balloons
September 12, 2021 12:00 - 14 minutes - 9.9 MBEach morning we wake pop and blow into a balloon. After five minutes life comes along and bursts it. We reach for another balloon then life comes along again and bursts that one. We do this all day long each and every day, and it’s exhausting. We have mastered the art of non-acceptance. In this session Suryacitta shows you what you blow into the balloons and how to move to a life of complete acceptance. A talk, and a meditation included here. If you appreciate the course please make a sma...
9, Getting off the Thought Bus
September 11, 2021 12:00 - 14 minutes - 9.97 MBWhat we all want is to be in the present moment. We intuitively know that this is where peacefulness and fulfilment are. However, many of us are not sure how to be in the present moment. Through a tantalisingly simple and everyday metaphor Suryacitta shows you why you seem not to be present and also what being present really means. There will be a short talk and a mindfulness meditation. Support the show (https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=HEW5RH59VQJYJ)
10, Waking up to each moment of your life
September 09, 2021 13:00 - 16 minutes - 11.1 MBWe only have this life - as far as we know. However, we are rarely here to savour it. Instead of experiencing real life in the here and now, which is full of wonder and joy, we miss it because we are fixated on the mental world of the head. In this session Suryacitta will explore why we feel the need to live in the head but also he will show you how to ‘wake up to each moment of your life. There will be a short talk and meditation. If you have appreciated these ten sessions please make a ...