eNEWSLETTER
November 2008
Our Mission Statement:
"Providing a range of innovative professional services, empowering our clients to positively address issues affecting their lives."
Mindfulness Therapy
The concept of mindfulness originates from the Buddhist philosophy; it is concerned with obtaining emotional balance and acceptance of internal experiences, affective clarity, and the ability to regulate one’s emotions and moods in order to live a healthier life.
It is a concept that has been around for over 250 years but has only in the last few years gained scientific credence.
Mindfulness therapy is concerned with letting go of the past and the negative feelings attached to the past without avoiding the issues. It is not concerned with the future but is focussed on living in the now and the present. There are issues that affect everyone mindfulness says stop, take a look at the broader picture and focus on the now.
It has a wide range of uses and can be used in managing depression, anxiety, stress and allow you to experience more balance on life’s rollercoaster.
The Benefits of Mindfulness
Practising mindfulness helps you:
- to be fully present, here and now
- to experience unpleasant thoughts and feelings safely
- to become aware of what you’re avoiding
- to become more connected to yourself, to others and to the world around you
- to become less judgmental
- to increase self-awareness
- to become less disturbed by and less reactive to unpleasant experiences
- to learn the distinction between you and your thoughts
- to have more direct contact with the world, rather than living through your thoughts
- to learn that everything changes; that thoughts and feelings come and go like the weather
- to have more balance, less emotional volatility
- to experience more calm and peacefulness
- to develop self-acceptance and self-compassion
Useful References
- Hayes, A, Feldman, G (2004) Clarifying the construct of Mindfulness in the Context of emotion Regulation and Process of Change in Therapy, University of Miami,
- Bien, Thomas (2006) Mindfulness Therapy, Wisdom Publications, USA
If you feel that Mindfulness therapy would be helpful to you then feel free to contact us on (07) 3862 6622, we’d be only too happy to help.
Until next time then...
“We usually do not look into what is really there in front of us… We spend our energies trying to make ourselves feel better, trying to bury our fears. We are endlessly seeking security. Meanwhile, the world of real experience flows by untouched and untasted. ” - Henepola Gunaratana, “Mindfulness in Plain English.”