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Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction, MBSR, is a foundational training program of gentle mindfulness meditation and awareness practices intended to help discover alternatives to the negative effects of internal and external stress overload with transitions, changes and challenges, both personally and professionally. By developing calming and insight skills we are promoting and supporting wellness for ourselves in practical ways. In essence, we are re-learning how to be living mindfully, with ourselves and others, in unity and harmony.
Awareness is the foundation for noticing the natural occurrence of change, our resistance to it, or our flow with it and what and how we feel in this moment. Mindfulness meditation practices help us integrate and open to this awareness for everyday practical use to manage challenges and ourselves differently.
When we sit in mindfulness meditation we are cultivating calming abilities which effects our physiology to accept change and challenges more easily and effectively. We are also mindfully integrating insight and skills to inform us of what might be aligned or mis-aligned in us, manifesting as illness or disruptive habits and disharmony. With awareness, we can embody these messages in a fresh way, reduce the negative effects of stress overload and experience a healthier relationship with ourselves and others.
Through awareness and stabilizing practices, we can become confident in noticing and allowing the natural flow of change to occur with less resistance and anguish and with greater ease and harmony. We can then approach our life with greater intelligence and choices for a healthier mind, body and life. Change occurs, without our permission most of the time. When we resist allowing the natural occurrence of change, we are also resisting opening to other possibilities. Imagine a life without change? This would mean we would have the same thoughts, emotions, clothes and food all the time. We can come to appreciate change and see what happens.
Mindfulness is a moment to moment process of bringing us back, compassionately, and with friendliness and ease, to center, to what is present for ourselves in the moment.
The benefits are for both personal and professional development and well-being.
This class is for those willing to step into feeling their core integrity and with greater awareness, to help bring about greater wellness and clarity. If you are willing to be open to allowing self-inquiry, feeling the challenges and changes of your heart and mind, then your process will unfold effortlessly.
Some of the reasons people take the mindfulness meditation course:
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You will learn:
- How stress, and the "fight or flight" syndrome, plays a role in many aspects of your life and how to change your orientation towards wellness
- Evidence based medical studies about the positive effects of meditation and the negative effects of stress overload
- How to integrate mindfulness into everyday life that is positive and reliable resulting in greater acceptance and openness
- About your personal core strengths and integrity
- To find out more about Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction founded by Jon Kabat-Zinn, and mindfulness meditation please go to
- The Center for Mindfulness, University of Massachusetts' School of Medicine website: http://www.umassmed.edu/cfm/mbsr/ where you can find Deborah listed as a teacher authorized to teach Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction
- Recommended readings by Jon Kabat- Zinn: Wherever You Go, There You Are and Full Catastrophe Living
There is always an opportunity to see if one knows how to look.
Mindfulness becomes our guide for greater clarity.
Contact Deborah Klibanoff 206-860-1010