Good morning, hope you are having a great weekend? I am writing a fundraising letter to all of you who have benefited from having your own mindfulness practice.

Mindfulness World as you know is an charitable organisation that does outreach work by supporting you and others associated with it to help you and to help others cope with health issues that affect us all emotionally/

There are many organisations that get a lot of funding and then there are those that do not get a lot of funding. Like mindfulness World that gets a lot of support and not a lot of funding.

It has been mainly funded by a few and needs to be funded by many more. The account for giving a donation is

Account:  name mindfulness world

Sort code: 09-01-29

Account : 08527330

you can make a standing order online to make a monthly payment for £10 or less

What's going to be done with the money? Many organisations support what we do but they all cannot give us free room hire. We are getting access to rooms that are only available for their services users and no one else. We are very successful in this. But the public, in the day, evening and weekends, is not getting access to these services.

A few of us have had self-funded training with Aberdeen's University's Mindfulness Association's Mindfulness for Compassionate Living which is a secular non-clinical mindfulness intervention. We have done both the foundation and the teachers course to teach mindfulness sessions which is perfect for running unstructured workshops in mindfulness and self-compassion.

We would like to part fund places for people who want to help others but are on extremely low incomes, like sufferers; teenagers and adults who are single parents, survivors of military, political, social, economical, domestic violence as well as those who have been released from the criminal justice system. Everyone deserves a second chance.

 Recently I completed or lets say I started my training in Past Trauma Therapy using Hypno-analytical and Psychoanalytical techniques. I have been for a lot of training and I was always happy that I was learning something to help others. But the result of this training a month after, really touched me. Just recently, I was on my way to a workshop, and it hit me unexpectedly all the memories of my childhood abuse and the abuse I suffered later, in life. In short I realised the reason why it was coming up now was,  https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/post-traumatic-stress-disorder-ptsd/symptoms/ trauma can take years to surface and in my case decades.

If you had asked me last month had I ever experienced trauma, I would have laughed or smiled and said no, but if you had asked me on Friday morning, whilst I was visibly physically distraught at the realisation that I had was experiencing in that moment PTSD symptoms. I would have said yes. Cutting the story short, I was able to use mindfulness to be in the here and now, to be in the moment, with the sense of curiosity, with a beginners mind, and to be an observer, dissociated not associated with what was going on for me. That saved me in that moment, but it was also my training as a hypnotherapist and psychotherapist that then enabled me to do some self-hypnosis to work with the subconscious mind to process and not to be held hostage in a traumatic state that has continued since then, because the memories and feelings do come back every time I mention it, even now as I write this email I can feel it in my body as an unconscious response to the words being a trigger. It is a combination of these skills, not knowledge but skills in practising mindfulness and self-hypnosis that I am motivated to write to you to ask you to support mindfulness world by funding it to have a series of workshops where people with PTSD symptoms can come and get help.

PTSD is like a phobia, talking about it won't make it go away. It is buried in the subconscious mind and it makes angry or scared when we get distressed, and we suffer by hurting ourselves and others directly and indirectly in the process of trying to survive that fear.

Help me to help others manage the fear within so that they can learn to live a life without fear? With your help you can provide the space where they can learn to feel safe again.

Lets break that cycle of fear together. Please fund mindfulness world to work for you to do what you can do to help others.

Account:  name mindfulness world

Sort code: 09-01-29

Account : 08527330

Thank you for your time and thank you for your help