HOW DOES MINDFULNESS MEDITATION REDUCE STRESS?
We know from research on stress that it is not so much the stressor itself, but how we perceive it and then how we handle it, that determines whether or not we will experience stress. Cultivating mindfulness can help us relate to our experience with less anxiety and fear. We begin to develop a more friendly and caring attitude towards ourselves and have more choice about how we relate to our experience. We begin to have a sense of spaciousness so that we can respond to life rather than reacting automatically out of our old patterns and past conditioning. Mindfulness meditation can help us reconnect with our sense of wholeness regardless of what we are facing, bringing greater balance, acceptance and ease to our lives. Mindfulness can be helpful to those of us living with stress from work, our relationships, our healing of childhood wounds, our mid-life transitions, chronic pain or illness. It can help us experience our inner resources of relaxation, awareness, and calm. Mindfulness med
