Awakeness: The Secrets of Your Mind & Mindfulness

Welcome to The Secrets of Your Mind and Mindfulness, the second part of the Awakeness course. (***English subtitles are available for all elements of this course.)

You can learn this course on its own and you WILL learn a lot, but it’s highly recommend that you watch The Secrets of Your Mind & Meditation course first, as in this second course there are occasional references to things that you will only know about if you have already watched the The Secrets of Your Mind & Meditation. The references are most noticeable in the ‘homework’ after each session. You will notice that they assume that you know how to do certain techniques, such as Mini-Secret Meditations and Tranquility Meditation, which were taught in the first course. However, it IS possible to follow the vast majority of this course’s content independently, so don’t worry 🙂

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You might think you already know how to meditate or you might think you only want to know how to practice Mindfulness correctly. But to really understand the true nature of your mind, develop its potential and increase the quality of your life dramatically, you need to understand how to do both.

You need to understand that Meditation forms the foundation for the later practice of Mindfulness. That’s why the course is split into two parts: Meditation & Mindfulness.

In this second part of the course, Mindfulness is taught in the original style, using many of the methods that are still used in Thailand today. Mindfulness has become very popular in the West in recent years but a lot of what is taught as Mindfulness is different from what was taught in Asia 2500 years ago and what is still taught in Theravada Buddhist countries such as Thailand.

In the first part of the Course (The Secrets of Your Mind & Meditation), you were introduced to The Naughty Little Boy, which is your own mind, and you were taught how to get him to rest by using The Magic Breath and Tranquility Meditation. You were then introduced to The 5 Bad Friends, The Meditation Stages, Secret Mini-Meditations and many other teachings and techniques that form the basis for Mindfulness practice.

In this second part of the course (The Secrets of Your Mind & Mindfulness), we will go much deeper and get to know more about The Naughty Little Boy, as well as learn about The 3 Types of Knowledge, The 5 Levels of Mindfulness, Intelligence vs Wisdom, The Hungry Mind, The Wall of Happiness, The Law of Karma, The Coloured Glasses, the If Clauses and many more important teachings and techniques.

You will be taken slowly, step-by-step through all the theory and teachings, by watching talks, participating in small workshops and completing ‘homeworks’ to help you practice and gradually develop your understanding and skills. If at any point you have any questions, you can send Sitang a message via the Udemy Messaging service and she will get back to right away. Subtitles in English are also available for the this course; to access them, please click the ‘cc’ button in the bottom right hand side of the video player.

Thank you for downloading this course and very best wishes for your Meditation and Mindfulness journey…

Sitang