“First, I didn’t know something like being Aware, Alert, and Attentive. Mindfulness has made me resilient, has linked me to empathy and reduced hostility which was lying inside me.”
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I was born four years ago in western province in Kakamega county am a Kenyan and pleased to be Through default state of mind which I had while outside prison, I found myself in Naivasha main prison sentenced and serving in custody, Because I lacked proper mentorship and directions and poverty a like.
Since I was sentenced six years ago am very lucky and grateful for prison management because of the rehabilitations programs inside here. I have learned so many courses e.g. Apulstry, Carpentry and First aid and Road-Kenya. The making of multiple detergent soaps and powder soap. Though learning all of these courses my life was turreted, displeasent and distressed I was living the isolation and anger.
Thanks to madam Inmaculada for launching the mindfulness leadership program in Naivasha. Since I was introduced to the program I have achieved a 1st and I have managed to change the many circumstances I joined the program in June last year and am determined to it so much, very excited and attentive to know much about it. My questions are to be a mindful leader in future and now.
First I didn’t know something like being Aware, Alert and Attentive. Mindfulness has made me resilient, has linked me to empathy and reduced hostility which was lying inside me. This has impacted me a lot, I have learned the importance of acceptance, importance of positive thinking mental well being how to deal with emotions, how my minds thoughts work. How to listen to my mind and how to cooperate with my body movements. Am now an extrovert not an introvert.
I now know how to cope with my thoughts, where as I didn’t knew but mindfulness has taught me, and now am leaving for now, free from stress distress anger and isolation.
The program should peruse the prisons and not only the Naivasha, all prisons, even outside prisons, so that other people should mindful and mindful leaders and explore lifes of others, having the chance to learn and understand themselves.
The program should and could spread.