The London Meditation Project Team on the Military
The London Meditation Project team will be conducting a day retreat for veterans on the 17th of April 2011 from 10:30 am to 5:00 pm, at the West London Buddhist Centre, 94 Westbourne Park Villas, London.
A day specifically for veterans, the retreat will provide supportive and sensitive training in deep relaxation, meditation and mindfulness-based stress reduction, giving one skills to relax more deeply, manage stress and begin to heal the invisible wounds of war, in the company of a small group of other veterans.
The London Meditation Project team believes that meditation can help with post-traumatic stress. In meditation we can find a place of deeper calm, stability and safety in body and mind, which then allows tension and emotional pain to be honestly experienced, released and healed. This process happens in meditation at its own natural pace, in mindful awareness, without judgment and without forcing anything to happen. Meditation can support the healing and releasing process without provoking re-traumatisation. It is not a 'quick fix'. The experience of trauma in mind and body takes its own time to heal, but one may start feeling more at ease and able to make some good decisions about self-care in one's life quite quickly.
For more information, visit www.londonmeditationproject.org.
A day specifically for veterans, the retreat will provide supportive and sensitive training in deep relaxation, meditation and mindfulness-based stress reduction, giving one skills to relax more deeply, manage stress and begin to heal the invisible wounds of war, in the company of a small group of other veterans.
The London Meditation Project team believes that meditation can help with post-traumatic stress. In meditation we can find a place of deeper calm, stability and safety in body and mind, which then allows tension and emotional pain to be honestly experienced, released and healed. This process happens in meditation at its own natural pace, in mindful awareness, without judgment and without forcing anything to happen. Meditation can support the healing and releasing process without provoking re-traumatisation. It is not a 'quick fix'. The experience of trauma in mind and body takes its own time to heal, but one may start feeling more at ease and able to make some good decisions about self-care in one's life quite quickly.
For more information, visit www.londonmeditationproject.org.
