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8 Week Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction course

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MBSR, or Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, is an eight-week mindfulness training program that was created by Jon Kabat-Zinn in 1979 at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. MBSR is supported by research that shows that it is effective at addressing chronic pain, anxiety, depression, and general stress reduction.

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What can Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction do for me?

The program can train your attention to help you cultivate self-awareness, which allows you to make more fully reasoned out and wise decisions in your day-to-day life. You are invited to incorporate mindfulness into your routine, which will also help you be more aware of the present and focus on it. These strategies help you avoid rumination, either on the past or the future. You can learn to respond to stress, rather than reacting to it. 

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The course gives you the tools to create a new relationship to stress and to life's ups and downs. MBSR is seen as the "gold-standard" in meditation courses and with over 30 years-worth of scientific research that consistently shows how mindfulness practices can enhance our physical and mental well-being. It can improve:

• Concentration
• Working memory
• Emotional intelligence
• Mental stamina
• Sleep
• Immune functioning
• Relationships
• Life satisfaction

 

and Reduce:
• Stress
• Depression
• Anxiety
• Distress
• Pain
• Ruminating
• Tension

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The 8 week course 

- teaches you to take better care of yourself so that you are able to live your life in a fuller and healthier way.

- promotes a way of being that helps us tackle life problems – physical, mental, social and emotional

- The focus of the mindfulness practice is to learn to be aware of the small changes in the physical sensations in your body; what is happening in the world around you using your physical senses, thoughts and emotions.

- The course programme encourages us to develop the skill of being aware of our experiences (good and bad, pleasant and unpleasant) from moment to moment so that we can learn to respond more skillfully to situations rather than simply reacting automatically.

Overall, the course is often helpful in dealing with an ongoing difficulty – the problem may not change but the way we can learn to relate to it differently. Practice mp3’s and our extensive Participants Handbook will be emailed out to you in advance of Week one. Like most things in life, you get out what you put in, and Home practice forms a large part of the programme and you will need to commit yourself to building in and practicing for up to an hour each day:

▪ Listening and practising, using the mp3’s

▪ Making notes of your experience

▪ Undertaking some informal / daily life practices. These can be included as part of your routine and ordinary activities.

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The course will run for 8 consecutive weeks.

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