Mindfulness is paying attention to present moment experience with open curiosity and a willingness to be with what is.
Diana Winston of UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center
Life today is frantic. It is full of stresses and demands that can leave us feeling physically, mentally and emotionally overwhelmed and exhausted. As we struggle with these difficulties we can increasingly feel ‘stuck’ in a merry-go-round of suffering where nothing seems to change and life just feels harder to cope with each day.
Mindfulness offers you an alternative to the relentless struggles of daily life. Mindfulness teaches you how to catch negative patterns of thoughts and feelings before they tip you into a downward spiral. Mindfulness begins the process of using present moment awareness to transform how you relate to your life. Over time and with regular practice Mindfulness can bring about long term changes in mood and levels of happiness and wellbeing.
Mindfulness or mindful awareness is a state of present moment attention where you can clearly perceive thoughts, physical sensations, emotions and events at the moment they occur without reacting in an automatic or habitual way.
This means you can make choices as to how you respond to things and have a rich and fulfilling life, even when experiencing difficult circumstances.
Anyone can learn and practice mindfulness and Breathworks participants say they feel much happier and more in control through incorporating mindfulness into their lives.
Breathworks.org
Mindfulness is the awareness that emerges from paying attention on purpose to the present moment and non-judgementally to things. This means paying attention to things as they really are in any given moment not what we want them to be. Its a way of being in the now rather than dwelling in the past or constantly anxious about the future.
The CBT Clinic offers one to one training in Mindfulness and group based programmes that can be set up for those with long term health conditions or in a workplace to help manage work based stress
If you are interested in finding out more about how Mindfulness Training might help you, just get in touch.
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