Mindfulness for Depression and Anxiety Mindfulness Based Interventions (MBI’s) are increasingly recognised as an effective way to reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety, enhance emotional intelligence, and improve the ability to respond to life’s challenges. Mindfulness involves consciously bringing awareness to your experience in the ‘here and now’ with openness, receptivity and curiosity. We all have the innate capacity to be mindful, however with the pressures of modern-day life this capacity is often forgotten. Learning to be mindful is simple, yet takes practice to develop. It offers a way of freeing yourself from automatic and unhelpful patterns of thinking, and reacting to experience. Mindfulness is an invitation to become more intimate with your life and befriend experience as it is. We learn to deal with difficult thoughts, feelings and body sensations in a caring way. The practice supports you in being present and grounded in the body, getting less caught in incessant thinking and less identified with emotions. In this way you naturally develop more acceptance and compassion for yourself and others. It helps you open to your experience, thereby creating spaciousness to see your patterns more clearly and to bring curiosity and deep understanding to drivers, attitudes, needs and aspirations. You come to notice maladaptive patterns of behaviours and have a choice to respond wisely, rather than getting caught in automatic pilot mode. By cultivating mindfulness new perspectives and previously unimagined possibilities open up to you.   Services Provided – Wellington Region and Online Wholistic Health Works provides mindfulness group courses throughout the greater Wellington region. My practice room for individual consultations is located at 6/75 Ghuznee Street, central Wellington. One to One mindfulness courses are also available Online.