The Science of Meditation Summit will feature insights from cutting-edge scientific research on meditation, lessons on the traditional practice of meditation, and practical tools to bring the practice and principles of meditation into your daily life. You’ll learn from over 20 of today’s leading researchers, renowned thought leaders, and wisdom holders, including Dr. Matthieu Ricard, …
This post brings you up-to-date with the latest courses and events at Embrace Mindfulness. 8 week MBSR programmes This is the core teaching programme of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR). In the course you will become more aware of the unhelpful thought patterns that can trigger and perpetuate stress, anxiety and depression. With that awareness comes …
This post brings you up-to-date with the latest courses and events at Embrace Mindfulness. 8 week MBSR programmes This is the core teaching programme of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR). In the course you will become more aware of the unhelpful thought patterns that can trigger and perpetuate stress, anxiety and low moods. With that awareness …
Another informative and considered piece on the rise of Mindfulness Based Approaches from the BBC courtesy of the BBC World Service. Mindfulness: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Times Back in January, BBC Radio 4 released a slightly more critical and searching programme which I posted about and commented on in more detail. You can access that …
This post brings you up-to-date with the latest developments at Embrace Mindfulness. 8 week MBSR programmes This is the core teaching programme of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR). In the course you will become more aware of the unhelpful thought patterns that can trigger and perpetuate stress, anxiety and low moods. With that awareness comes choice …
A thought provoking piece from Radio 4 on the relentless march of the ‘ Mindfulness Industry’; from its Buddhist origins, via the secular therapeutic interventions of MBSR & MBCT as a way of reducing stress and depression, to its increasing popularity within corporations and the military as a means of improving employee resilience. The programme …
There has been alot of comment on the Mindfulness segment aired on 60 minutes this last week. Some of it positive 60 Minutes’ Anderson Cooper Tries Mindfulness and some of it less so 60 Minutes Does Mindfulness You can make your own mind up by watching the film which I’ve posted below. Even more interesting …
This post brings you up-to-date with the latest courses and events at Embrace Mindfulness. 8 week MBSR programmes This is the core teaching programme of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR). In the course you will become more aware of the unhelpful thought patterns that can trigger and perpetuate stress, anxiety and depression. With that awareness comes …
This post brings you up-to-date with the latest developments at Embrace Mindfulness. 8 week MBSR programmes This is the core teaching programme of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR). In the course you will become more aware of the unhelpful thought patterns that can trigger and perpetuate stress, anxiety and low moods. With that awareness comes choice …
On newstands this week, the cover story of the February issue of Time Magazine investigates the Mindful Revolution, a detailed look at the exponential growth of Mindfulness Based Approaches in the United States. The article, written by journalist Kate Pickert, is top and tailed by her own personal experiences of the MBSR programme and pays …
This is the tenth and last video segment of the ‘Mindfulness for Life’ interviews by Jon Kabat-Zinn. The quote is also by JKZ, excerpted from a longer article that used to be on his Mindfulness CD website but is no longer there. Fortunately I reposted it back in September and you can read it in …
Bringing our attention to the senses with open-mindedness and curiosity is one of the very first practices in an 8 week course You can find the previous segments of this video series on the following links below. Segment 1: Mindfulness for Life – Interviews with Jon Kabat-Zinn Segment 2: Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Segment 3: …
It’s not a question of finding the time to practice mindfulness, but rather of making the time; making the commitment to do nothing other than just pausing a little and being with your experience as it unfolds, from moment to moment. How does that sound as a resolution for the New Year? You can find …
Getting away from the drama of our personal stories and into an understanding of and intimacy with awareness itself; the realisation that there is no place to go, there’s nothing to do, and there’s no special mindfulness state to attain in order to become a whole person. You can find the previous segments of this …
Through mindfulness practice we learn to use our awareness to see how caught up we are with our likes and dislikes. We begin to notice how our tendencies to attach to the pleasant and to push away the unpleasant in our experience, are both harbingers of suffering. You can find the previous segments of this …
This video explores some of the mystery and wisdom inherent in the physical body and how the discipline of mindfulness based practice can enable us to get in touch and more intimate with all six senses and the ‘full dimensionality’ of human experience. You can find the previous segments of this video series on the …
In the fourth segment of this series Jon Kabat-Zinn talks about the practice of mindfulness as the path of liberation from our conditioned and habitual behaviours that we are, for the most part, unaware of. For the previous video segments of this series please see the following posts: Segment 1: Mindfulness for Life – Interviews …
This post brings you up-to-date with the latest courses and events at Embrace Mindfulness. 8 week MBSR programmes This is the core teaching programme of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR). In the course you will become more aware of the unhelpful thought patterns that can trigger and perpetuate stress, anxiety and low moods. With that awareness …
“There is no question that the real mindfulness teacher, and the real meditation practice, is life itself. Every moment is an opportunity to realign ourselves with the actuality of what is unfolding, however challenging or mundane, and thereby choose not lose ourselves in our interpretations and stories about what is going on. This is easier …
This post brings you up-to-date with the latest courses and events at Embrace Mindfulness. 8 week MBSR programmes This is the core teaching programme of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR). In the course you will become more aware of the unhelpful thought patterns that can trigger and perpetuate stress, anxiety and low moods. With that awareness …