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OUR CURRICULUM
for Addiction Prevention & Recovery

BrightLife Objectives

Our curriculum elements are designed to engender confidence, ease, and empowerment in our clients for life. Key objectives include objectives:

Rejuvenate Body & Mind - to restore harmony and balance to the dysregulated nervous system.
 
Create Empowered Understanding - to establish a practical understanding of the forces addiction uses to compel behavior—and deliver proven techniques and practices to counter them.
 
Neutralize Harmful Mental Habits - to interrupt key maladaptive tendencies of thought and attention known to trigger addicted behaviors.
 
Habituate Self Care - to solidify regular habits that support happiness, wellness, and healthy life choices.
Demonstrated Client Benefits include...

  • Reduced incidence of urges and cravings
     

  • Enhanced self-awareness & introspection
     

  • Increased emotional resilience & stability

  • Improved mental focus
     

  • Diminished reactivity
     

  • Reduced experiential avoidance
     

  • Habituated self-care practices

  • Stimulated parasympathetic response
     

  • Improved confidence & self-image
     

  • Development of a positive, growth mindset

BrightLife Curriculum Overview

The BrightLife Curriculum integrates learning, experimentation, and trauma-informed practices to deliver a transformative experience that lastingly enhances nervous system regulation and resilience while mitigating the internal triggers that drive addicted behaviors. Major elements include...

 

  • Weekly Video Lessons: Key concepts and practices are delivered via weekly learning modules each of which includes a series of easily-consumable, 7-10 minute videos to lead clients through the BrightLife process step-by-step.
     

  • Daily Practices: Each learning module includes select evidence-based yoga and mindfulness practices embedded with neurological-reprogramming exercises designed to rejuvenate the nervous system while re-writing specific triggering mental patterns that can fuel addictive cycles.
     

  • Live Weekly Coaching Workshops: Each week, participants receive additional instruction and coaching at a live workshop, either in-person or online.

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All together, BrightLife can be completed in less than an hour a day.

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Learn more about the focus of each module below.

PERSONALIZED ONBOARDING

Each client's journey begins with an Onboarding Session with a BrightLife Success Coach.

During this session, each client will create their own Personal Success Plan to serve as a tailored, step-by-step roadmap to their BrightLife success.

MODULE 1 | Interrupting Addicted Cycles with BrighLife Brain-Training

WEEK'S OBJECTIVE – Introduce the BrightLife system and activate the parasympathetic nervous system.

 

OVERVIEW – Our first module introduces the BrightLife system and techniques while working to restore the overtaxed nervous system back to its natural, relaxed state.

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IN CLASS – We'll explore BrightLife's process of transformation including 

our proprietary N.O.T.E. Brain-training Process. Your clients will learn about addiction's optimal points of interdiction and discover how to employ customized tools to interrupt reactive cycles.

 

AT HOME – Daily BrightLife exercises alternate between a rejuvenating guided-relaxation session based upon the practice of yoga nidra, and a trauma-informed yoga posture sequence used to support the BrightLife brain-training exercises.

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MODULE 2 | Neutralizing Triggering Pattern #1: Negativity Bias

WEEK'S OBJECTIVE – Elevated Mastery over Thoughts and Attention

 

OVERVIEW – Clients will learn how poorly-managed attention can create unnecessary overwhelm and other triggering emotions. The instruction will be paired with practices and brain-training exercises designed to neutralize these triggers.

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IN CLASS – Your clients will discover how to put in place our structured brain-training regimen to rein in the unruly mind and cultivate gratitude, positivity, and hope in a way that supports recovery and balance.

 

AT HOME – Daily practices will alternate between the formal yoga-based brain-training exercises and the guided-relaxation practice to calm the nerves and rejuvenate the body to create greater mastery over mind, minimize stress, and engender enhanced feelings of calm, clarity, and control. 

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MODULE 3 | Neutralizing Triggering Pattern #2: Psychological Resistance

WEEK'S OBJECTIVE – Improved Acceptance of Present-moment Experience

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OVERVIEW – Clients will learn how the mind's struggle against our present moment experience can be a source of significant emotional turmoil. This week’s instruction and brain-training exercises are designed to create a more effortless acceptance of that which cannot be changed.

 

IN CLASS – This week's focus will be dedicated to neutralizing unhelpful mental and emotional reactions to life's challenges. We'll employ a brain-training process to re-train the nervous systems to respond to life challenges with effortless calm and skill.

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AT HOME – The daily BrightLife exercises will  include yoga-based brain-training exercises alternated with the guided-relaxation practice with a focus on training the brain to respond to life's challenges and disappointments with greater ease. 

MODULE 4 | Neutralizing Triggering Pattern #3: Emotional Reactivity

WEEK'S OBJECTIVE – Enhanced Emotional Resilience

 

OVERVIEW – Clients will gain a greater understanding of the purpose and source of emotions while learning to reduce the incidence of triggering emotional disturbances and enhancing resilience.

 

IN CLASS – Clients will learn customized brain-training exercises that minimize emotional triggers and shift how the brain responds to impulses and emotions of all kinds.

 

AT HOME – This week's exercises will help clients experience emotions and impulses in a healthy way. Clients will gain skill in observing, feeling, and understanding their emotions while engaging in brain-training drills to engender emotional resilience.

After the second week, I felt like I was a different person!
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BrightLife definitely changed something deep inside of me. I don't feel like I have to struggle with my addiction anymore. I just feel calm, relaxed, and in-control without even trying.

- Tripti C.

NOTE

Neurological Repatterning Exercises
The BrightLife N.O.T.E. Process

The goal of BrightLife is to address the deeper causes of addiction by making meaningful changes in the brain and nervous system.

To do this, BrightLife employs daily neuro-repatterning exercises that are conducted in tandem with traditional yoga and meditation practices.

In the our system, the yoga posture sequence, called the Recognition Sequence, is used as a kind of laboratory where maladaptive habits of thought and attention are recognized, experienced, and neutralized.

To accomplish this, BrightLife employs the four-part N.O.T.E process: Notice, Observe, Try, Experience.
NOTICE
Where the client is prompted to notice a specified maladaptive habit of thought or attention.
OBSERVE
Where the client is led to connect with the immediate negative consequences of the specified habit in mind, body, and emotion.
​TRY
Where the client is invited to adjust the habit from the maladaptive pattern to a more healthy pattern.
EXPERIENCE
Where the client is directed to feel the immediate and significant improvement in their experience of the same situation as a result of the adjusted behavior.

 

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The N.O.T.E. Process is inspired by the scientific method and is designed to create two back-to-back experiential experiments:
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  1. NOTICE and OBSERVE serves as the control experiment bringing into conscious awareness the negative consequences of the default behavior.
     
  2. TRY and EXPERIENCE represents a secondary experiment wherein a single variable of thought or behavior is altered yielding a new, and more healthful, result.
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This approach helps clients obtain immediate, first-hand experience of the consequences of typically unexamined patterns of thought and behavior together with a tangible sampling of the power they have within themselves to achieve an improved state of being.

This insight translates into an empowering stance that helps to fuel client engagement. Further, consistent repetition of the exercises serves to establish new mental habits that bolster wellness and enhance self-control.

​BrightLife is suitable for anyone independent of physical fitness level.

No prior yoga experience is required.

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