Mindfulness and Stress Management

Our stress management programmes comprise:

• Group Courses (8-Week and Refresher Courses)
• One to One Mindfulness for Stress Reduction at the practice room or Online.

How Mindfulness Can Help You With Stress Management

Mindfulness is a practice of paying attention to whatever is happening in the present moment and offers a way of freeing yourself from automatic and unhelpful patterns of thinking and responding. Being mindful supports you to take better care of yourself, through exploring and understanding the interplay of your mind and body. Through practising mindfulness you learn how to identify ‘key stressors’ in your mind and body, and to move from a habit-driven way of reacting to stress, to responding from a place of greater calm, confidence and contentment.

Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)

MBSR was developed in the Division of Preventive and Behavioural Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in 1979 by Dr Jon Kabat-Zinn and his associates. It is the oldest and largest medical center – based stress reduction programme in the USA and has served as a model for more than 250 similar programmes in the USA and world-wide. The focus of the programme is intensive training in mindfulness practices and its integration into the challenges and adventures of everyday life. Mindfulness invites you to move toward greater awareness, choice and balance in your life. Over three decades of published research indicates that the practice of MBSR has been linked to:

• An ability to manage both short- and long-term stressful situations more efficiently.
• Lasting decreases in physical and psychological symptoms.
• An increased ability to relax.
• Reduction in pain levels and an enhanced ability to cope with pain that may not go away.
• Greater energy and enthusiasm for life.
• Improved self-esteem.

By integrating mindfulness into your daily life, you will be actively supporting your mind and body with resources that effectively develop greater mental, physical and emotional resilience and well-being.

For More Information

Please Contact Us if you would like to find out more about mindfulness programmes, including our upcoming courses.