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About Mary Rees
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Attention Training (ADD Alternative)
...The brain, like the rest of the body, can be altered intentionally. Just as aerobics sculpt the muscles, so mental training sculpts the gray matter in ways scientists are only beginning to fathom. - Richard Davidson
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Mindfulness IS attention training. The popular view of meditation is that it is a relaxation technique. That is only one of its many values. We can learn to relax the mind, but also to sharpen it. Mindfulness and Insight can more fully be understood as mind training. - Mary Rees
Mary teaches skills for developing the mind to both groups and individuals. This is a natural extension and expansion of her twenty years of teaching learning strategies in public edcuation. Trainings include skillful and appropriate attention strategies as well as means for simply being happy and content in life - accessing and fostering innate wholesome qualities and defusing unwholesome qualities.
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Insight and Mindfulness Courses
There are a number of ways to begin working with the brain and training the mind to attend appropriately for different circumstances. Meditation is an especially accessible one - and it is something you can do at any time in any day to take responsibility for your own mind - no matter what your diagnosis. Different kinds of meditation result in different mind skills. The practice of Insight Meditation (Vipassana) is an especially clear and direct teaching for training the mind.
A Note from Mary -
People have contacted me about meditation, concerned that attention problems would keep them from being able to meditate. Some require a little special attention at the beginning, but this is largely to gain confidence in their abilitiy to be able to do it. The fact is, any mind can meditate, there are similarities in all minds, but no matter what is happening in the mind we can learn to know what it is doing and intervene in its processes.
Take a course offered by an Insight Meditation teacher in your area (to get a list of available teacher see www.inquiringmind.com or google insight meditation and your state or city.
Take a course with a meditation teacher that also has specialized with various perceptual and cognitive skills - including attention disorders. See Insight and Mindfulness Courses on this website.
Work with the computer based meditation course on CD, Going Beyond-First Steps, available online at citta101.org/nutshell/goingbeyondcd.html.
If you are hesitant to do any of the above, purchase individual meditations below. The following are all meditations from the Going Beyond - First Steps course, but modified slightly to let you start in very small steps. After doing this you are likely to find that you do not need special instruction.
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These are simple and powerful tools - inexpensive, but copyrighted.
Please refer freinds to this site. Thank you.
Going Beyond - First Steps
If you choose to buy all of the original files below you would do better to buy the CD. It will cost about the same, but on the CD you receive the additional written instructions and worksheets.
Making Contact with Body and Breath -
A guided meditation with instructions that bring you into intimacy with your own body and into direct contact with immediate experience - an essential skill in being present and awake to any and all moments of life.
Sample: Posture First 3 minutes - 3 minutes, 3MB
Sample: Last 3 minutes - Loving Kindness Meditation - 3 minutes, 3MB
Original file - 24 minutes, 24MB - $5
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Modified below by breaking into three smaller files:
ADD101a Posture and Breathing - 7 minutes, 7MB - $2 Buy Now or Add to Cart
ADD101b Sensations - 6 minutes, 6 MB - $2 Buy Now or Add to Cart
ADD101c Returning (plus Metta) - 6 minutes, 6MB - $2 Buy Now or Add to Cart
Body Scan - Open to spaciousness and insubstantiality - even of the body. We generally take everything to be more substantial than it is. This meditation to introduces you immediately to the freedom and direct experience of things being softer, less rigid than they seem - and the beginning of seeing things as they really are.
Original file - 25 minutes, 35 MB - $5
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The original file is already modified from a separately recorded 45 body scan meditation. This time length is good for everyone. The meditation is an open focus experience and helps you both to be more aware of your phyiscal experience and to also experience the body as not as substantial as it seems. It is common for people starting to work with this meditation to totally miss parts in the process. Just keep doing it anyway, paying attention as best you can.
Establishing Concentration - This third guided practice is an important step in your process - a meditation that is central in training the mind and a basis for what follows.
Original File - 16 minutes, 15MB - $3 Buy Now or Add to Cart
ADDult Version - 35 minutes, 33MB - $3 Buy Now or Add to Cart
Carefully guided as the original file and just as long, but it also includes opportunity for several short sittings at the end for support in gradually increasing silent sitting time.
Stabilizing Attention and Finding Balance - The previous meditations are essential in order to develop both focus and and flexibiltiy taught in this meditation. Stablilizing Attention and Finding Balance are the means of using attention skillfully, a skill we have seldom otherwise been taught.
Original File - 18 minutes, 16MB - $3 Buy Now or Add to Cart
ADDult Version - 37 minutes, 34 MB - $3 Buy Now or Add to Cart
Similar to the previous meditation. Carefully guided as the original file and just as long, but it also includes opportunity for several short sittings at the end for support in gradually increasing silent sitting time.
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Other Services
Once you know you can work with your own mind!
Indiviudal Work - To work with Mary one-on-one go to individual work
Work with professional and relational skills - Assessment and recommendations - Begin with formal online assessment - Application
Learn to Create the LIfe you want instead solving problems! Individual work locally or arrange a course in your neighborhood.
Start a group for ADDults who are also interested in the pleasure and satsifaction of training the mind. We will help you start your own support group of like-minded people.
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