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About Mindfulness
"Mindfulness is being aware of what is happening right now without wishing it were any different"
If there was one thing you could do right now to improve your life, regardless of your situation, it would be to practice mindfulness.
The cultivation of mindfulness has it's roots in Buddhism and is one of the core teachings of the Buddha. Mindfulness is a meditation technique that helps shift your thoughts away from your usual preoccupations toward an appreciation of the moment and a larger perspective on life.
Mindfulness was introduced to the west by the Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh. Professor emeritus Jon Kabat-Zinn, founder and former director of the Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, helped to bring the practice of mindfulness meditation into mainstream medicine and demonstrated that practicing mindfulness can bring improvements in both physical and psychological symptoms as well as positive changes in health attitudes and behaviours. You can find some of the benefits of practising mindfulness listed below.
Mindfulness Practice
Benefits of Mindfulness
- Increasing your capacity for mindfulness supports many attitudes that contribute to a satisfied life.
- Being mindful makes it easier to savor the pleasures in life as they occur, helps you become fully engaged in activities, and creates a greater capacity to deal with adverse events.
- By focusing on the here and now, many people who practice mindfulness find that they are less likely to get caught up in worries about the future or regrets over the past, are less preoccupied with concerns about success and self-esteem, and are better able to form deep connections with others.
- help relieve stress
- treat heart disease
- lower blood pressure
- reduce chronic pain
- improve sleep
- alleviate gastrointestinal difficulties
- depression
- substance abuse
- eating disorders
- couples’ conflicts
- anxiety disorders
- obsessive-compulsive disorder