How Might Mindful Meditation be helpful in Dealing with Stress?
At first it might not seem that focusing on the breath and watching thoughts and emotions might be helpful in dealing with the stress that we all deal with in our lives. In fact, we spend a lot of time tending to our thoughts and emotions, getting very stressed by them. Mindfulness meditation teaches us how to be aware of thoughts, body tension and even uncomfortable emotions without getting caught up in them. With mindfulness we find that we don’t have to take everything that we think or feel as seriously as we have in the past- that we can “ride the waves” rather than getting swamped. What is Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction? Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is a program developed by Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn and his colleagues at the University Of Massachusetts Medical School twenty-five years ago. It uses the principles of mindfulness meditation to treat patients with both medical and emotional problems. Since its beginning many people, even those without a medical diagnosis, h
