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Mindfulness Class
Designed Specifically for Cancer Patients and Their Families
Certified Mindfulness Meditation Teacher, Art Burns, leads a FREE Weekly mindfulness class. Similar to most other Mindfulness classes, this one is designed specifically for Cancer Patients and their Family Members.
All are welcome. No previous experience necessary. All you need is a computer or phone and an internet connection.
Art takes care of the rest.
All are welcome. No previous experience necessary. All you need is a computer or phone and an internet connection.
Art takes care of the rest.
Thursdays, At 6:15 PM MST
No need to reserve a spot. You don't have to sign up ahead of time. If you're feeling up to it, just click the button below, or copy and paste the link in the browser. Everything should happen seamlessly and automatically from there. But if you're having any trouble at all, please email Art: [email protected]
Or Copy and Paste this link into your browser:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87882771628
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87882771628
How Does It Work?
When you log on with the link below, you will find yourself in the Zoom waiting room. After a short pause, Art will let you in. Now in the Zoom room, you can sit and relax until the meeting begins - promptly at 8:15 pm EST/6:15 MST.
Art will do a brief introduction and then get right into the practice.
At this point, all you have to do is follow along. Art will guide you every step of the way through one of a variety of guided meditations, lasting about 20-30 minutes.
At the end of the practice, Art will share a few ideas and concepts before holding space for any questions or anything anyone might want to share.
After that, Art instructs the group on how to do some simple and easy practices - requiring very little time, while providing profound results - you can do at home, between our weekly sessions.
Then, Art gives everyone one last opportunity for questions or comments before we close the meeting.
Art will do a brief introduction and then get right into the practice.
At this point, all you have to do is follow along. Art will guide you every step of the way through one of a variety of guided meditations, lasting about 20-30 minutes.
At the end of the practice, Art will share a few ideas and concepts before holding space for any questions or anything anyone might want to share.
After that, Art instructs the group on how to do some simple and easy practices - requiring very little time, while providing profound results - you can do at home, between our weekly sessions.
Then, Art gives everyone one last opportunity for questions or comments before we close the meeting.
Why Mindfulness For The Cancer Journey?
How does mindfulness help cancer patients?
Mindfulness Based Interventions for Cancer Patients, like the Art Burns Coaching Method, have been extensively examined through rigorous scientific studies. The results are undeniable. Spending time doing simple mindfulness exercises - like the ones we'll teach you on Thursday evenings - benefit you, on your cancer journey in FOUR important ways:
1. Physical Benefits: Studies have show patients' bodies have benefitted from mindfulness training as seen medically, in bloodwork, X-rays, and MRI's, but also as the patients have reported feeling generally a little more comfortable in their skin. People in these studies have also reported a shift in the pain and discomfort associated with cancer and cancer treatment. The waves of pain become less intense, less frequent, and shorter in duration. Mindfulness will not eliminate the pain altogether. But it will help you manage and endure the pain. As Jon Kabat-Zinn says: We can't stop the waves, but we can learn to surf.
2. Emotional and Cognitive Benefits: As you go through your cancer journey, the thoughts and emotions that arise can often be even more challenging than the physical pain. But this is a pain you experience all alone. People can see what cancer and its treatment does to your body, but they're not in your mind to experience the abrupt emotional swings or the sometimes terrifying thoughts that barrel into our minds at any moment. Nobody sees the way you cry alone in the middle of the night, or the way your mind wanders to its darkest recesses while you're watching TV or doing a puzzle. The work we do on Thursday evenings will strengthen your skills of emotional regulation and also help you develop a different relationship with your thoughts. A relationship that allows you to detach from the thoughts and not trust or believe them so much. You'll also have more control to redirect your attention away from the dark thoughts to protect yourself.
3: Spiritual Benefits: Whether your diagnosis was a wake-up call, or it was the ultimate 'bad news,' every person who's ever been diagnosed with cancer is thrust into a confrontation with their own mortality in a way most people won't experience until they've lived a long life. Questions arise that can only be held in the mystery of the spiritual. Not in some woo-woo sense. But in the sense of connecting to the spiritual as a means of connecting to something bigger than your ego. Finding a way to connect with your deeper self, the part of you that lives beyond your cancer and will outlive your body no matter what happens can be a profound resource for people on the cancer journey. Whether you call it 'God,' 'The Universe,' 'Eternity,' 'Karma,' or any other name, we all experience life with some relationship to this mysterious realm. The practices we do, along with Art's coaching and guidance, will help you bring more clarity to this aspect of your life and allow you to connect more deeply to it. The results will be powerful beyond my power to describe them.
4: Stress Reduction Benefits: Mindfulness practices have been used in clinical settings to reduce stress for nearly 50 years. So many studies have been done, there is no ambiguity about it: mindfulness practices help reduce stress. Why is this important? First, stress is at the heart of all three of the above areas. Second, stress has been shown to have a huge impact on the way the body responds to cancer and to whatever treatments you're going through.
Individuals diagnosed with cancer have to deal with:
We'll give you practices you can do anywhere, anytime. But it will never be 'Homework.' Instead, these practices will be resources for you to manage those moments of overwhelm. Those moments at 2 AM, while you're staring through the ceiling and experiencing all the powerful thoughts and overwhelming emotions. Or when it hits you in the middle of a good time. We'll send you home with simple strategies and interventions for when these difficult moments arise.
And every Thursday, at 6:15 PM MST, you'll have the opportunity to ask your certified mindfulness teacher and coach whatever questions arose throughout the week. You can share some of your experiences for the benefit of your classmates, or you can sit quietly and just take it all in. If you like, feel free to leave your camera and mic turned off.
But whatever you do, don't miss this free opportunity.
Mindfulness Based Interventions for Cancer Patients, like the Art Burns Coaching Method, have been extensively examined through rigorous scientific studies. The results are undeniable. Spending time doing simple mindfulness exercises - like the ones we'll teach you on Thursday evenings - benefit you, on your cancer journey in FOUR important ways:
1. Physical Benefits: Studies have show patients' bodies have benefitted from mindfulness training as seen medically, in bloodwork, X-rays, and MRI's, but also as the patients have reported feeling generally a little more comfortable in their skin. People in these studies have also reported a shift in the pain and discomfort associated with cancer and cancer treatment. The waves of pain become less intense, less frequent, and shorter in duration. Mindfulness will not eliminate the pain altogether. But it will help you manage and endure the pain. As Jon Kabat-Zinn says: We can't stop the waves, but we can learn to surf.
2. Emotional and Cognitive Benefits: As you go through your cancer journey, the thoughts and emotions that arise can often be even more challenging than the physical pain. But this is a pain you experience all alone. People can see what cancer and its treatment does to your body, but they're not in your mind to experience the abrupt emotional swings or the sometimes terrifying thoughts that barrel into our minds at any moment. Nobody sees the way you cry alone in the middle of the night, or the way your mind wanders to its darkest recesses while you're watching TV or doing a puzzle. The work we do on Thursday evenings will strengthen your skills of emotional regulation and also help you develop a different relationship with your thoughts. A relationship that allows you to detach from the thoughts and not trust or believe them so much. You'll also have more control to redirect your attention away from the dark thoughts to protect yourself.
3: Spiritual Benefits: Whether your diagnosis was a wake-up call, or it was the ultimate 'bad news,' every person who's ever been diagnosed with cancer is thrust into a confrontation with their own mortality in a way most people won't experience until they've lived a long life. Questions arise that can only be held in the mystery of the spiritual. Not in some woo-woo sense. But in the sense of connecting to the spiritual as a means of connecting to something bigger than your ego. Finding a way to connect with your deeper self, the part of you that lives beyond your cancer and will outlive your body no matter what happens can be a profound resource for people on the cancer journey. Whether you call it 'God,' 'The Universe,' 'Eternity,' 'Karma,' or any other name, we all experience life with some relationship to this mysterious realm. The practices we do, along with Art's coaching and guidance, will help you bring more clarity to this aspect of your life and allow you to connect more deeply to it. The results will be powerful beyond my power to describe them.
4: Stress Reduction Benefits: Mindfulness practices have been used in clinical settings to reduce stress for nearly 50 years. So many studies have been done, there is no ambiguity about it: mindfulness practices help reduce stress. Why is this important? First, stress is at the heart of all three of the above areas. Second, stress has been shown to have a huge impact on the way the body responds to cancer and to whatever treatments you're going through.
Individuals diagnosed with cancer have to deal with:
- Financial Stress. (Financial Toxicity)
- Emotional Stress.
- Mental Stress.
- Physical Stress.
We'll give you practices you can do anywhere, anytime. But it will never be 'Homework.' Instead, these practices will be resources for you to manage those moments of overwhelm. Those moments at 2 AM, while you're staring through the ceiling and experiencing all the powerful thoughts and overwhelming emotions. Or when it hits you in the middle of a good time. We'll send you home with simple strategies and interventions for when these difficult moments arise.
And every Thursday, at 6:15 PM MST, you'll have the opportunity to ask your certified mindfulness teacher and coach whatever questions arose throughout the week. You can share some of your experiences for the benefit of your classmates, or you can sit quietly and just take it all in. If you like, feel free to leave your camera and mic turned off.
But whatever you do, don't miss this free opportunity.
Take a Moment for You
The cancer journey is jam-packed with all manner of appointments, tests, and treatments. Beneficial and necessary as all of these are, they are also major stressors.
Think of these classes as something you do totally for you!
Once we begin the guided meditation, you will begin doing something you almost never get to do: Nothing.
Not the doing-nothing of sitting in a doctor's office waiting room, or the doing-nothing of watching tv. This doing-nothing feels different. It's impossible for me to describe the feeling that comes from intentionally becoming still and really doing nothing, but I guarantee you'll love it. And I guarantee you deserve it.
I truly hope you can give yourself this wonderful gift.
Think of these classes as something you do totally for you!
Once we begin the guided meditation, you will begin doing something you almost never get to do: Nothing.
Not the doing-nothing of sitting in a doctor's office waiting room, or the doing-nothing of watching tv. This doing-nothing feels different. It's impossible for me to describe the feeling that comes from intentionally becoming still and really doing nothing, but I guarantee you'll love it. And I guarantee you deserve it.
I truly hope you can give yourself this wonderful gift.
Your Support Network Is Invited, Too!
Two reasons to bring your family members and/or friends to the sessions:
1. They're stressed, too. Not that their stress is your problem to solve. It's not. But their stress impacts the way they support you. Your body will be impacted by their stress in a way you don't need.
2. These classes will help them understand all you're going through and give them some tools to help you more effectively and efficiently.
So please, if you want them there, invite as many friends and family as you like. There is almost no limit to the number of people we can have in our classes.
Of course, you might not want them to come to these sessions. And that's alright too.
1. They're stressed, too. Not that their stress is your problem to solve. It's not. But their stress impacts the way they support you. Your body will be impacted by their stress in a way you don't need.
2. These classes will help them understand all you're going through and give them some tools to help you more effectively and efficiently.
So please, if you want them there, invite as many friends and family as you like. There is almost no limit to the number of people we can have in our classes.
Of course, you might not want them to come to these sessions. And that's alright too.
Blending Science and Spirituality for Healing
Art draws on experience and knowledge of both Eastern and Western religions, as well as years of training in neurobiology and psychology. The result is a thorough and integrated approach to accessing the tools we all have to bring comfort and healing to our bodies, our emotions, and our thoughts.
It is important to recognize that 'Healing' does not necessarily mean 'Cured.' When we acknowledge this we are able to approach our condition with love and compassion, no matter our prognosis.
It is important to recognize that 'Healing' does not necessarily mean 'Cured.' When we acknowledge this we are able to approach our condition with love and compassion, no matter our prognosis.
Have Questions?
If you'd like to book a FREE 1:1 consultation with Art, please click here to schedule:
Meet Your Coach
While working in the area of stress reduction over the past five years, Art has had the distinct honor and pleasure to work with several cancer patients in varying stages, forms, and prognosis. Some were in remission and/or post op. Some were in treatment. And some were terminal. The one thing they ALL had in common? Every single one of these people said they wish they'd known about the practices of mindfulness before they got sick. Every one of them believed these practices might have prevented their cancer, or at least changed the trajectory of their experience with cancer.
Art took this as a calling.
Knowing how these practices can benefit cancer patients achieve physical, emotional, and cognitive comfort, Art has dedicated himself to providing a safe and effective process specifically designed for cancer patients.
Please join us.
Art took this as a calling.
Knowing how these practices can benefit cancer patients achieve physical, emotional, and cognitive comfort, Art has dedicated himself to providing a safe and effective process specifically designed for cancer patients.
Please join us.