What is Stress Interruption?

Mind21 - Tackle stress and reclaim your well being

Mind21 influences how we respond to stress by introducing techniques that operate at a behavioural and neurological or habit level.  Habits are powerful and whilst they start with taking a deliberate action,  when we’ve taken the same action many times it strengthens connections in our brain and influences our automatic reactions.   This is one of the principles of neuroscience which understands the brain as a muscle that is strengthened through our mental focus.   On Mind21 you will learn to:

• reduce your risk of burn out by learning to switch off 

• recognise the physical, emotional and cognitive experience of stress as it arises

• develop the ability to intercept the automatic patterns of stress and build new neural pathways

• settle the nervous system to interrupt the physical cycle of stress 

• identify the mental traits that prolong stress including the power of the self critic

• anchor the mind to break the engagement with destructive mental activity

• understand the emotional system and how to introduce activities that balance the threat and drive systems

• challenge the tone and narrative of self talk, taking a more supportive approach to life experiences

• cultivate space in the mind for calmness and clear thinking

• reduce mental noise to experience greater flow 

• take back control of your emotional landscape and mental activity

Course Format 

Mind21 - 21 video modules each 30 minutes long. Each module includes a short presentation from 2 - 10 minutes, followed by a guided mind training practice. Simply set aside some time in a comfortable space where you won’t be disturbed and press play.

You start with modules 1 to 7 and each week a further 7 become available, allowing you to build your knowledge and experience week by week without overwhelm.  

On completion, you'll gain access to a few little extras, our gift to you.  Beautiful Journeys promotes just taking 30 minutes out to rest that analytical mind.  For the mornings, there's a 10 minute meditation program, to kick start your day in the best way.  You'll also be invited to enjoy one month's access to our Mindfulness Monday zoom session. 

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The Research

There are many evidence based courses that deliver stress reduction through mindfulness, the challenge for Mind21 was how to create a program that could deliver effective results in 21 days.  There was also a desire to provide a simple and attractive solution because when our lives are busy and we're stressed, we can't face the challenge of taking on one more thing.

As someone who’s experienced stress to the point of burnout and depression many times, I analysed my own mindfulness experience evaluating what had worked for me. The core take away for me was knowledge and attitude.  Mindfulness is a gentle and supportive approach and often the kind tone of the guided practices offered an escape from the busyness and harshness of my own mind.  I also observed that knowledge of how the mind and emotions work, motivated and empowered me to stick with the practice.

To decide on the content I studied best of breed as part of a masters research program.  This included market leading courses such as Google’s “Search Inside Yourself”; “The Mindful Way Through Depression”, Williams et al; “The Mindfulness Based Living Course”, the Mindfulness Association and “The Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Course”, Bangor University.   I looked for the common themes and practices that supported stress reduction and based the course on these. 

In common with many stress reduction courses, Mind21 begins by encouraging you to take that all important time out, just 30 minutes per day to follow a simple practice that promotes well being and introduces basic skills such as recognising stress, building focus and becoming familiar with the inner voice.  The initial aim is to move out of that dominating head space so the topics that prompt  analytical thinking are deliberately included later on.  Towards the end of the course, the dynamics of worry and identity are introduced. 

The knowledge and experiential practices are designed to equip you with the skills to interrupt the patterns of stress and change the dynamics of the self talk that also  contributes to stress.   The course was compiled as part of a masters degree research program and the results  demonstrated that in 80% of cases subjects were able to develop techniques to manage stress within the first week with 100% of subjects able to implement the course techniques in week 2.

I would love to offer these techniques to you not just for 21 days but for the foreseeable future with our lifetime access.  Also, since creating the course we've developed new products to a) help people to kick start their day with 10 minute meditations and b) relax when they need to with 30 minute guided journeys.  We are offering both of these products with the purchase of Mind21.  They'll be released upon course completion.