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SUMMARY:Feeding not Fighting Online Course
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]\nFeeding not Fighting with Fay Adams\nA Radical Practice for Transforming Inner ‘Demons’\nincluding contributions from Choden and Kristine Mackenzie-Janson\nOnline 1.5 hour sessions x 6\n18.30pm – 20.00pm on Monday 8th February, Monday 15th February, Monday 22nd February, Monday 1st March, Monday 8th March and Monday 15th March 2027.\nPrerequisite: MA Level 1 Mindfulness and Level 2 Compassion or equivalent. If you’re unsure whether you have the equivalent experience, please email fay@mindfulnessassociation.net with a short summary of your experience of meditation or other inner work.\nPlease note: For this course to be beneficial to you, you will need to have the resources to take responsibility for your physical and mental health while participating. Please get in touch if you’re in doubt and would like support to decide if now is the right time to engage.\n“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”\n— Rainer Maria Rilke, from Letters to a Young Poet\nCourse Summary \nWhen anxiety, self-criticism, anger, chronic illness, or exhaustion show up, our natural instinct is to fight them, fix them, or run away. But pushing these inner “demons” down only drains our energy and keeps us trapped in reactivity and fear.\nInspired by Lama Tsultrim Allione’s Feeding Your Demons® and rooted in ancient wisdom, this advanced course flips the paradigm. Instead of fighting your struggles, you will learn to drop beneath the surface and tend to them at their root. By discovering and meeting the deepest unmet needs behind your difficulties, the inner conflict clears –allowing your struggles to organically dissolve into wisdom, vitality, and deep peace.\nWhat You Will Take Away From This Course\nBy moving from inner conflict to a greater sense of aliveness, you will finish this 6-week journey with:\n• A Somatic Navigational Tool for Life: Walk away with a deeply felt, practical framework you can call upon anytime an inner difficulty has a stronghold in your body, mind, or heart.\n• The Power of ‘Needs Awareness’: Learn to look past surface symptoms to identify your fundamental human longings (for safety, belonging, love, freedom), training your nervous system to organise around potential rather than fear.\n• Access to Your Inner Allies: Discover how to transform depleting, negative habits into liberating inner “allies” –unlocking inherent qualities of compassion, clarity, confidence, and calm.\n• A Shift from Contraction to Expansion: Move away from the exhausting, egocentric pull of inner struggle and step towards an open-hearted, fluid, and vibrant engagement with life, moment to moment.\n\nHow the Journey Unfolds\nThis is a deeply experiential, embodied course. Over six 1.5-hour online sessions, we combine three profound deep dives:\n1. Somatic, Imagination-Based Meditation: Skilfully using the extraordinary resource of the imagination to let it speak to us and change us from the inside out.\n2. Awareness-Presence Practice: Resting in open awareness to give a taste of unconstricted being and to loosen tendencies to concretise our experience\n3. Transformative Inquiry: Digging deeper through reflective journaling or optional pair work.\n \n“Often, I finish the practice in a tangibly different inner state to the one I began with and then feel able to reengage with whatever life is throwing at me from a fresh place. I gain great confidence from knowing that it’s there whenever I need it.” — Fay Adams, Course Tutor\nIs This Course Right for You?\n• Prerequisites: This advanced course is designed for those who have completed MA Level 1 Mindfulness and Level 2 Compassion (or equivalent). (Unsure? Email fay@mindfulnessassociation.net with a brief summary of your meditation experience).\n• A Note on Readiness: Because we will be working directly with the root of challenging emotions and beliefs, you will need the inner resources to take responsibility for your physical and mental health while participating.\n\nFrequently Asked Questions\n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_toggle title=”What exactly do you mean by “demons“? Do I need to believe in anything supernatural?” css=””]Not at all. In this context, “demons” (traditionally called māras in Buddhist teachings) are the internal forces that work against us. They are your everyday struggles: anxiety, chronic self-criticism, exhaustion, anger, insomnia, or limiting beliefs. We aren’t dealing with anything external or supernatural, we are working entirely with our own mind, habits, and emotional patterns.[/vc_toggle][vc_toggle title=”How does “feeding“ a difficult emotion actually work?” css=””]It is a practice of radical welcoming. Usually, when a difficult emotion like anxiety shows up, we try to fight it or suppress it, which only makes it stronger. In this course, we use a structured somatic and imagination-based process. You will learn to locate the emotion in your body, give it a form, dialogue with it to find out what it truly needs (like safety or love), and satisfy that need. When the struggle is met with compassion instead of resistance, its energy naturally transforms into an inner “ally”, like clarity or confidence.[/vc_toggle][vc_toggle title=”I haven’t done Level 1 and 2 with the Mindfulness Association. Can I still join?” css=””]This course is specifically designed for those who have completed our Level 1 Mindfulness and Level 2 Compassion courses (or equivalent deep training), as it requires a strong foundation in mindfulness and self-compassion. If you have an established, long-term meditation or personal development practice from another tradition or modality and feel ready for this work, please email fay@mindfulnessassociation.net with a brief summary of your experience so we can see if it’s a good fit.[/vc_toggle][vc_toggle title=”Is this course safe for me if I am currently going through a mental health crisis?” css=””]Because this practice involves turning toward and directly engaging with your vulnerabilities and challenging emotions, it requires a stable foundation of emotional resilience and is not a replacement for therapy. To benefit from these sessions, you need to have the inner resources to take full responsibility for your physical and mental well-being. If you are currently experiencing acute trauma or a mental health crisis, we recommend waiting or consulting with your healthcare provider first.[/vc_toggle][vc_toggle title=”What happens if I have to miss a live online session?” css=””]We highly recommend attending live to get the full benefit of the group energy and the optional pair work during inquiry. However, we understand life happens! All six sessions are recorded and made available to participants shortly after each broadcast, so you can easily catch up or revisit a specific practice in your own time.[/vc_toggle][/vc_column][/vc_row]\n
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