WELCOME TO
Philip Jerzy
Mindfulness
Getting in touch with your body is the most critically important work you can do for your own freedom.
Once you begin to feel yourself, you deepen into the experience of peace and acceptance.
Learn, practice, and master self-support tools that you can use on your own, for the rest of your life.
When you have the capacity to clear your triggers right when they arise, you give yourself the best chance to get free of them.
Philip Jerzy Nienartowicz
Philip Jerzy Nienartowicz is a meditation teacher, a Kiloby Inquiries facilitator, and is certified in Gabor Mate’s Compassionate Inquiry method. In his one on one sessions, he often combines guided inquiry with instruction, believing that building self-sufficiency and working with the resistance/uncertainty that blocks it is paramount to a real shift in well-being. Philip occasionally provides support for KI facilitator training and is skilled in helping people through the inquiry learning process. During the Covid-19 pandemic he co-hosted weekly inquiry workshops helping people begin or deepen their skills.
Meditation and Inquiry
By blending the concentration and awareness of meditation with the introspection and insight of skillful self inquiry we begin to understand why we feel and act the way that we do. Rather than just trying to understand our issues at a surface level, we start to notice how our nervous system reacts, at an experiential level. We build familiarity and friendship with our body and mind, which leads to more fulfillment in everything we do. With these skills we become self-sufficient and can look inward and stop our suffering quickly and independently without needing to rely on a counsellor or facilitator to help us through everything.
What is
Meditation
Inquiry
The practice of focusing and concentrating the mind. By focusing on our breath as it naturally goes in an out we begin to learn how to observe our body’s processes without interfering while at the same time strengthening our ability to concentrate.
This seldom comes easily. Usually within a few breaths we lose our focus and get distracted by a glimmering thought only to remember we were supposed to be watching our breath. This is natural. Remembering to come back to the breath after getting distracted is what it’s all about. After some practice, distractions will get weaker and remembering the breath will come quicker.
This has an enormous impact on our day to day life. As it is, we swing from one turbulent thought to the next, with no control over our thoughts and emotions. When this is practiced in meditation it carries over throughout our day, and when something we begins to upset us, we notice rather than ruminating on it all day, we start to notice our breath and let it go.
When we gain the skill of looking quietly, unobtrusively, patiently, and with focus, inquiry becomes much easier. We are able to notice our deepest pains without avoiding them or trying to get rid of them. We simply process and let them go.
Inquiry is the practice of looking inwards and asking questions in order to gain insight into oneself. Our daily moods and upsets stem from a much deeper source, and rather than taking them at face value we gently go inwards, questioning and being curious as to why we feel how we feel.
This process is very somatic, meaning rather than just trying to figure these questions out mentally, we learn how to feel ourselves and listen to our body as well. You might be surprised by how much your body has to say.
Some people take to this quite naturally, some people have great difficulty feeling any sensations. It’s important to remember that when we try and feel ourselves we aren’t looking for any special sensations. We just feel into the body and notice anything thats coming up anywhere. It can be heat or coldness, a tickling feeling, a feeling of pressure or pain, restlessness or numbness. Everything is valid.
There are many different questions to ask and many different approaches and often this depends on where we are at the moment. For this reason its helpful to have a facilitator to guide us until we are familiar with the process
It can take some time to learn and get used to. But eventually it becomes quite intuitive and begins a process of letting go everything that weighs us down.
