Pema Chödrön – The Freedom to Choose Something Different
A Self-Paced Online Course on Breaking Free from Our Habitual Patterns
Once we see how we are “hooked,” we begin to realize the potential for transformation in every moment. Join Pema Chödrön as she helps you liberate yourself from patterns of suffering, rise to life’s challenges, and reawaken the limitless freedom that lies within you.
When You Enroll in The Freedom to Choose Something Different, You’ll Experience:
- Knowing When You’re Hooked
Learn to recognize when you’re caught in habitual patterns that cause mental suffering. - The Power of Pause
Disrupt your mind’s chain reactions by learning to pause when the “hooked” feeling arises. - Cultivating Self- Kindness
Release yourself from patterns of self-judgment by quieting the critical voice within. - Positive Groundlessness
Open the door to true transformation by stepping away from familiar storylines and biases.
Your Journey with The Freedom to Choose Something Different
We all know what it’s like to be triggered: our body tenses up, our mind closes down, and we find ourselves reacting in ways that feel beyond our control. In Tibetan Buddhism, this is known as shenpa—the quality of being “hooked” into habitual patterns that cause us to suffer. Given fuel, these sparks of shenpa can grow into raging fires within us. But there is another way.
In The Freedom to Choose Something Different, Pema shares her liberating practice for disarming reactivity and exploring a fresh alternative. Over six in-depth sessions, Pema will help you transform your habits, addictions, and behaviors by guiding you to greater presence in your moment-to-moment choice points.
What You’ll Learn In The Freedom to Choose Something Different:
- The Three Difficult Practices for overcoming shenpa
- The power of pause, a simple practice that makes a big difference
- Cultivating acceptance of your irritability, insecurities, and other less-noble human traits
- Ways to unravel patterns of self-dislike
- How “positive groundlessness” can open the door to freedom in all of your personal interactions
About Pema Chödrön
Pema Chödrön is an American-born Buddhist nun and the author of many modern-day spiritual classics, including The Wisdom of No Escape, Start Where You Are, When Things Fall Apart, The Places That Scare You, No Time to Lose, Practicing Peace in Times of War, How to Meditate, and Living Beautifully. She serves as resident teacher at Gampo Abbey Monastery in Nova Scotia.
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