
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
Program Intention
Learning to practice mindfulness provides a way of relating directly with whatever is happening in your life with more ease. It is an effective way of taking charge of your life. Instead of impulsive reactivities, mindfulness allows for conscious noticing. This conscious noticing allows for conscious responding and in turn lends the possibility to release yourself from stress, anxiety, depression, contractions leading to chronic pain, and perpetuating other avoidable dis-ease or illness. This starts with cultivating present-moment attention and awareness in an open nonjudgmental way. MBSR was developed at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center by Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn. It is a program designed to introduce ways to cultivate mindfulness.
Benefits of integrating
Mindfulness in daily life
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Stress reduction.
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Change our relationship with chronic pain.
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Improve self-care.
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Greater ability to manage anxiety and depression.
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Loosen the grip of negative habits and thinking.
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Ease the symptoms of burnout.
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Clearer recognition of when your attitude or mood is beginning to change so you can become less reactive.
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Discovery that difficult and unwanted thoughts and feelings can be seen from an altogether different perspective – a perspective that brings with it a sense of compassion and less judgment to the suffering you are experiencing.
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Improved quality of life, also found in participants recovering from cancer.
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Improved sense of well-being and learning how to be present and appreciate the simple pleasures of everyday life, connect with yourself, and the experience of being alive.
MBSR is in short
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Education
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Non-traditional form of modality to alleviate suffering and improve mental health or physical health.
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A form of psychological self-study
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A tool for managing stress.
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A way to wake up fully to what life has to offer.
Quick peek in MBSR Program
MBSR is a 30 hour program taken over 10 sessions or classes.
Participants meet once per week for 2.5 hours.
The program will start with an orientation.
There will be a day-long retreat between week 5 and 6.
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Orientation
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Week 1- Automatic pilot and the universal nature of habit patterns, the processes of perception and attention
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Week 2- Perception and stress psychology and physiology
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Week 3- Conditioning
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Week 4- Recognize the reactivities toward experiences and its automaticity, habitual physical, emotional, and cognitive patterns in reactions
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Week 5- Mindfulness-mediated stress response
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A Day-Long Practice
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Week 6- Mindful relating
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Week 7- Interacting with the world, skillful choices, and self-care
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Week 8- Mindfulness in everyday life