More on Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction........
The core of the Mindfulness-Based
Stress Reduction (MBSR) Program is mindfulness meditation and its integration
into the rich potential of everyday life. This course provides a supportive and
therapeutic environment where participants can learn to:
- Recognize signs
of stress
- Learn relaxation
techniques
- Discover how
thoughts can help or hinder stress management
- Cope more
effectively with stressful situations
- Decrease
psychological suffering
- Reduce pain and
cope with pain that may not go away
- Develop new
responses to sleep disturbances and fatigue
- Communicate
effectively
- Build
self-confidence
- Tap into greater
energy, well being, enthusiasm and appreciation of life
People
participate in the MBSR program for conditions as diverse as
- stress: job,
relational or financial
- anxiety and
panic
- sleep
disturbances
- heart disease
- irritable
bowel
- cancer
- depression
- muscle tension
- fatigue
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- chronic pain
- high blood
pressure
- headaches
- skin disorders
- asthma
- headaches
- complex
medical conditions that would benefit from a complementary approach
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