Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Mindfulness-Based Meditation and Stress Management

Mark your calendars: PBS will be running a program on Mindfulness-Based Meditation in the new year. This Emotional Life with Dr. Michael Baime will air January 4-6, 2010.

Based on the work of Jon Kabat-Zinn (1994), “Mindfulness provides a simple but powerful route for getting ourselves unstuck, back into touch with our own wisdom and vitality” (p. 5). Sounds good, doesn't it?

In many ways, this work is responsible for my choosing a path in Holistic Health Education. In 2004 I attended a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction class in which we read Kabat-Zinn’s Full Catastrophe Living and learned the basics of meditation. The awareness that I developed has helped me resolve some issues and, ultimately, make a career change.

Mindful meditation can help with stress reduction and pain management, to name just two. The many benefits of this practice are too numerous to mention in a single blog entry. I have a feeling I will return to it again and again.

Is meditation right for you? Check it out and see for yourself. Here's a link to a segment from This Emotional Life:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdyQ9y5IUck


Reference
Kabat-Zinn, J. (1994). What is mindfulness? Wherever you go, there you are: Mindfulness meditation in everyday life (pp. 3-7). New York, NY: Hyperion.

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