Mindfulness based Stress Reduction (MBSR) / Mindfulness based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) is the application of Mindfulness to Western “dis-ease”.

The Mental Health Foundation believes that techniques such as mindfulness and yoga, which use meditation, could help prevent depression relapses in sufferers. At this time it is thought, and research is ongoing that MBSR/MBCT is also applicable to a range of other health problems. Those include: anxiety, chronic fatigue syndrome, eating disorders, MBCT for oncology patients.

However we must not forget the preventative nature of this approach, which can be experienced as an increased sense of calm and relaxation, higher levels of energy and enthusiasm for living and growing self-confidence and self-acceptance.

I have practiced Mindful Meditation since 1979 with the following Senior teachers: mostly Christopher Titmuss, also Christina Feldman, Jack Kornfield, Joseph Goldstein and Fred von Allmen. In 2009 I gained the qualification as a certified MBCT Teacher with Dr. Patrizia Collard (www.stressminus.co.uk).

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