James Happe Mindfulness Counseling & Coaching

James Happe Mindfulness Counseling & Coaching I am a coach and counsellor that offers individual coaching and counselling as well as group trainin To this end I completed my certification in A.C.T.

I have been practicing and studying various forms of meditation for most of my adult life. This included investigating the theoretical aspects of meditation as well as the medical and scientific research on mindfulness practices. After completing a degree in psychological counseling I began to explore the possibilities of integrating mindfulness practices into the therapeutic context. (Acceptance

and Commitment Therapy) in 2016. I offer both individual coaching/counseling and group mindfulness trainings.

“ACT is a mindfulness-based behavioural therapy that challenges the ground rules of most Western psychology. It’s a therapy that makes no attempt to reduce symptoms, but gets symptom reduction as a by-product. A therapy firmly based in the tradition of empirical science, yet has a major emphasis on values, forgiveness, acceptance, compassion, living in the present moment, and accessing a transcendent sense of self.” - Dr. Russ Harris

14/06/2022
During the first lockdown I made this video. It's an argument for why meditation and mindfulness are useful during a glo...
29/06/2021

During the first lockdown I made this video. It's an argument for why meditation and mindfulness are useful during a global pandemic. It's linked to a free 21 Day meditation "challenge" that you can access through my website (jameshappecoaching.co.za). It's a small offering of a few minutes a day of making time to check in with yourself. Good luck to us all.
https://youtu.be/QQDfG72OKdY

In this video I highlight some of the pragmatic reasons why we should practice meditation at this time, during the global Covid19 pandemic.This is particular...

I am currently revisiting the 21 Day Meditation Challenge that I created last year around this time. I am reviewing it t...
22/02/2021

I am currently revisiting the 21 Day Meditation Challenge that I created last year around this time. I am reviewing it together with the latest group of participants on the Meditation for Normal People course.

I didn't have a chance to reply to all of the comments and messages as we were busy going into the first COVID-19 lockdown in South Africa (I was lucky enough to end up on a farm for the first 2 months but often had limited internet signal). Nevertheless, I am really enjoying going through the course again, day by day and responding to the messages.

If you haven't taken the challenge, give it a try. It's completely free and open to anyone. Here is the sign-up link:

...to help you start and sustain a daily meditation practice. The course is FREE so sign-up here today join in the challenge. Over the course of 21 days we will gradually work our way up from 5 to to 15 minutes of formal meditation practice. I'll be providing daily guided meditation recordings, answ...

Like many things we do, meditation may seem like a waste of time unless you're "into it”. There are more important thing...
19/01/2021

Like many things we do, meditation may seem like a waste of time unless you're "into it”. There are more important things to do, right?

But meditation is different from the other activities that we prioritise, more often than not, on the basis of personal preference. Meditation conditions our state of mind, or the quality of our awareness. And it's a verifiable, self-evident truth that our state of mind affects our experience of the world.

It's true that some activities can cheer us up or help us to destress or move us closer towards the life we would like to have. When we are in a difficult emotional or psychological state however, even the most enjoyable, valuable or rewarding activities can become dull, tiresome or frustrating, all because of the “frame” that is our state of mind at the time.

So meditation isn’t just another activity, it is the maintenance of the space in which all other activity takes place. It can be compared to the cleaning up and organising of an area at the begin of the day in which some activity is going to be taking place: the sorting out of your desk before you begin work, the clearing of a room before practicing a dance, the inhale of a gathering breath before starting a presentation.

Meditation is the maintenance of the space that is your awareness and the activity that happens is your life.

Most of us believe we far into one of these two categories, and to some extent that may be true since we most likely sit...
14/01/2021

Most of us believe we far into one of these two categories, and to some extent that may be true since we most likely sit somewhere on the spectrum between these 2 extremes. We may also fluctuate between these poles depending on how we are feeling or the circumstances we find ourselves in.

Take a look at this short video from TheschoolofLife. Which pole to you feel you are closer to?

There are dangers associated both with thinking too much - and thinking too little. The trick is to use our minds to access our most sincere, authentic and o...

12/01/2021

Always great to get some feedback from a past client :)

"Having connected with James in the beginning of 2020 has been the most valuable gift I could have invested into myself. The tools that he gave me during our sessions have carried me through a very tough year. I would recommend him a million times over!"

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