…ing, or moving into a more attuned intrapersonal alignment, Welwood (2000) stresses the critical importance of exploring one’s whole cognitive gestalt, and all the parts that make up its sum: Our addiction to the grasping tendency of mind causes us to overlook the spaces around thoughts, the felt penumbra that gives our experience its subtle beauty and meaning. Neglecting these fluid spaces within the mindstream contributes to a general tendency t…
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…ogistical nightmare. A job they once loved can become a constant source of stress. A friend of mine loves to host events, yet by the time the party rolls around, she spends the majority of her time tidying up and running around refilling platters. She rarely allows herself to actually sit still and enjoy the fruits of her labors, the people she’s brought together or the fun they’re sharing. Think about how you may be distorting or distracting your…
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…ally, but mentally as well. Aerobic exercise has been proven to help fight stress and depression. Keep your mind sharp and your spirits lifted by making it a part of your life. Sleep the Right Amount for You: While eating right and exercising more are almost always on our agenda, we rarely give sleep the weight it deserves when it comes to our wellness and well-being. According to William C. Dement and Christopher Vaughan, the authors of The Promi…
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…ad our exclusive interview with Jon Kabat-Zinn There are mindfulness based stress reduction clinics all around the world now. In hospitals, in standalone, clinics and so forth. Many therapists are bringing it into their practice. So it’s very available. There’s mindfulness based cognitive therapy, which is based on really wonderful randomized clinical trials demonstrating that people with major depressive disorder, who’ve had three or more episode…
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…attitude at its most extreme. Think of when your parent was in a moment of stress and acted out. What kinds of statements would they make? What points of view would they reveal? A woman I worked with tried this exercise and wound up surfacing some deep-seated attitudes her mother had toward men. In writing down her mother’s point of view, she described men as worthless and only good for taking care of a woman. As she exposed her mother’s distrust…
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…being comfortable in our own skin, from being capable of dealing with the stress, pain and illness that confronts us. Or for that matter, appreciating the joy that reeling ourselves back in is valuable. Order the Full DVD Interview: Mindfulness for Life: An Interview with Jon Kabat-Zinn In this DVD, Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn defines mindfulness as a way of “connecting to your life.” He discusses the “hard work” of living in the present moment, the perso…
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Watch PsychAlive’s exclusive video interview with mindfulness expert Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn below. YouTube responded with an error: The playlist identified with the request’s <code>playlistId</code> parameter cannot be found. Order the Full DVD Interview: Mindfulness for Life: An Interview with Jon Kabat-Zinn In this DVD, Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn defines mindfulness as a way of “connecting to your life.” He discusses the “hard work” of living in the p…
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…a lot of the time, we could zone along on auto pilot dealing with all the stress and, you know, challenges of life and blast through 20, 30, 40, 50 years of life relatively mindlessly practicing being unaware, getting better and better and better at being unaware. And then on our death bed, waking up perhaps saying, “Oh my God! That was almost all kind of asleep, hypnotic trance through the entirety of my life… I missed my children, I missed expr…
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…icine and society. He is a professor emeritus and founding director of the Stress Reduction Clinic and the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He has authored several books including Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life (2005), Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness (2006), and Letting Everything Become…
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…% of Internet users look online for information about depression, anxiety, stress or mental health issues.” These numbers increase in younger generations, with 1/3 of teenagers now utilizing the Internet to seek out mental health related information and more than 1/3 of individuals between the ages of 18-29. This month, a study led by research professor at San Diego State University Graduate School of Public Health, Dr. John W. Ayers, even used Go…
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