New at the Center: a mailbox and a need help button

 

The Center is an immersive experience that allows you to take a step back from all the stress and strains in your daily life, the soft ambient sounds and hazy colors allow you to focus on your meditation or just relax to regain your balance and spiritual well-being. We are here to support and inspire you therefor we placed the mailbox at the landing spot, (ctrl drag your notecard to the box) we want to hear your story, comments, suggestions and questions ♥

However we are not professionals so if you find yourself in a crisis situation and need rl help or support we added the need help button, on touch it will give you a notecard with useful links to sites, information, chat, phone numbers for your region. 

The Wishing Tree

 

New at the Center, The Wishing Tree, on touch you can type your own wish in local chat to add to the tree and you can also take a peek at other's wishes ♥

♥ Connect with Us ♥

In life, we make all sorts of connections, and in these unusal times, we have all had to get more creative with how we connect with our communities - whether those be family, friends or those in our virtual world. What a privilege that our modern society already had in place all the wonderful technology of social media, video conferencing, text messaging, phones, and emails so that we can still connect while isolating and distancing for safety. 

The Center for Mindfulness invites you to connect with us! Here are some ways: 

1. Join our inworld group if you haven't already done so!

 

2. Attend our classes and programs, and stay afterwards to meet new people. 

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3. Chat with us anytime from anywhere by joining our Discord channel.

4.  Join us on Facebook!  Center for Mindfulness SL and feel free to share our posts with all your friends :)

5.  Check our blog posts every day!  Keep up to date with new classes, events, our favorite videos and happy ramblings ♥

6.  Post a pic to our Flickr group!

7.  Add our calendar to yours!  

Thank you for your kind support. It means so much to all of us.  

New Class Coming! Qigong Small Universe Meditation

 The Center for Mindfulness SL is happy to announce a new class on Tuesdays from1-2pm (beginning September 22nd) called Qigong Small Universe Meditation.  We welcome the return of our good friend and former mentor, Cythe who has graciously agreed to teach this class.  Cythe has been practicing and leading qigong for over ten years and we are happy to have her onboard!

Cythe explains Qigong Small Universe Meditation:

Qigong is a modernized form of qigong with simple, effective movements and meditations developed by Qigong Master Chunyi Lin. It can help you increase your energy and improve your physical, mental, and spiritual health. 

Qigong teaches that the underlying cause of any health problem is an energy blockage; remove the blockage and healing can occur. Using effective breathing, healing sounds and visualizations as you move energy, this mediation helps to clear energy blockages along the two most important channels in the body, the front and back channels. These sounds are powerful because their vibrations can reach every corner of the body to clear blockages. 

We have many energy channels and energy centers in our bodies. When energy starts at one point, visits all the channels and centers in the body, and comes back to the starting point, we have what is translated from Chinese ancient wisdom as a “big universe.” 

The most important channels are the back and front channels in the torso. When energy starts at one point on those channels, visits all the parts of the system, and comes back to the starting point we have what is called a “small universe.”

The back governing channel of yang male energy channels in the body starts at the lower dantian area, which is deep behind the navel. It goes down to the bottom of the torso, travels up along the spine to the top of the head, and comes down from the middle of the forehead stopping at the roof of the mouth. The front channel of yin female energy channels also starts from the lower dantian area, goes down to the bottom of the torso, travels up the body passing through the heart and throat stopping under the tongue.

These two channels control and influence the other channels in the body. Nearly all of the important energy centers are arranged along the back and front channels. As a result, energy blockages in the heart energy center could cause heart, lung, breast, chest or intelligence problems. A blockage in the tailbone could cause reproductive organ problems, low sexual energy, and headaches. A blockage in the cervical bone #7 of the spinal cord could cause headaches, fever, diabetes, and lung and heart problems.

The small universe mediation is the easiest mediation technique to open these two important channels.

Qigong has been found to be beneficial to helping improve health and wellness, and researchers often recommend further research.

The Kindness Club: Breaking the Spell of Negative Emotions

Today we enjoyed a video called, "Breaking the Spell of Negative Emotions," by Sam Harris.  Anna has been talking to us about thoughts and mindfulness recently, and this fit nicely into that program.  

Sam Harris is a well-known author with a degree in philosophy from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in neuroscience from UCLA. He has practiced meditation for more than 30 years and has studied with many Tibetan, Indian, Burmese, and Western meditation teachers, both in the United States and abroad.

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Pictures at the Center

Jammy made this beautiful picture... how it captures that still moment. Thank you, sweet friend!

If you have pictures to share of your avatar meditating send them to me ♥

Mr Sandman surprised me with this beauty ♥

Center of Mindfulness Make Over

Hello everyone!  I hope you are all staying safe and mindful during these chaotic times. Having done some recent exploring in SL, I was inspired by the beauty of Island of Pandasia and it has encouraged me to revisit my earlier Kinbaku location, bringing elements of its setting and tranquility to the Center for Mindfulness.  I am also evolving the structure and format of the lectures to be more help in the current environment. The long theoretical lectures are a way of learning things but we all have a lot on our mind and things are more easily forgotten, especially if you get a lot of information at once.

From Monday July 6 I will start with Daily Mindful Thoughts (10-15 min) which will be hints, little exercises and sharing with each other how we are doing, so more interactive. After that we will do the Daily Mindfulness Meditation (10 min), and these will adjust depending on the mood of the day and other factors, and everyone is welcome to attend either or both, as time allows.
It is my hope to make the Center a safe and calming place for people to come to learn, relax and recharge, and also to grow a base group of friends who support each other and progress in the awakening. Teleport here and group here ♥

Daily meditation 10 min Mindfulness ♥

Every day at 2pm SLT we meditate together for 10 min at the Meditation Pavilion at the Center for Mindfulness.  Thanks Jam for the beautiful picture ♥

The Center is at Sea Level now!

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Spring Forest Qigong at the Center, Saturdays at 1 pm SLT

Let me introduce you to our new Qigong instructor at the Center: Cythe (cytheria.teardrop).

Cythe has been practicing and leading Spring Forest Qigong groups for ten years and is also a certified laughter yoga instructor. Her passion is to encourage people to express their natural health, beauty and leadership.

She will lead a Qigong session every Saturday at 1pm SLT (led in voice so need ears)

What is Spring Forest Qigong?

It started more than 4,000 years ago when Chinese scholars, studying the workings of the universe, discovered and established the Eastern scientific principle that everything is energy.

One of the best ways to help yourself maintain a healthy lifestyle is to practice Qigong. Qi means  “energy" and Gong means "to work with" so simply put Qigong means working with the body's energy.

Spring Forest Qigong is a modernized form of qigong developed by International Qigong Master Chunyi Lin after years of qigong, tai chi, martial arts practice and intensive meditation.

Spring Forest Qigong is a simple, effective system of movements and meditations that can be done anywhere, anytime, and by anyone.

Spring Forest Qigong can help you increase your energy and improve your physical, mental, and spiritual health.

SFQ empowers you to:

● Discover your natural ability to help heal yourself
● Acquire the power to help protect yourself from ill health; mentally, physically, and spiritually
● Learn knowledge and skills to continually strengthen your health, well-being, and mental outlook throughout your lifetime
● Develop your natural capability for helping others to heal
Spring Forest Qigong is an integrated form of healing, helping us to heal on all levels – physically, mentally/emotionally, and spiritually. Although each person and situation is unique, the benefits of practicing SFQ can include:
● Pain-free movement and greater flexibility
● A sense of happiness, contentment and peace
● Reduced stress and tension
● Improved metabolism, digestion, and elimination
● Balanced energy
● A more youthful appearance
● Increased awareness and mental acuity
● Increased strength and vitality
● Restore organs to their healthy, optimal functioning by giving them an “inner massage” and thus slowing the aging process

Qigong is the science of the body. Many people also consider it a “healing art” or “energy art.” There have been many medical studies done on qigong. Qigong has been found to be beneficial to helping improve health and wellness, and researchers often recommend further research.

https://www.springforestqigong.com/qigong-and-science