Tag: mindfulness

  • More Mindfulness

    More help via mindfulness, this time for elementary school kids in Watts: Mindfulness has been found beneficial for stress reduction, anxiety and depression, dietary challenges, addiction recovery, and many other conditions. Now it has found its way into a classroom where children as young as three are using its techniques to manage emotions and stay calm. Using…

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  • ACT Anxiety and Depression Workbooks

    From the Recommended Reading page, a couple of titles worth highlighting:  The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Anxiety and  The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Depression, a matching pair of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) workbooks. Instead of trying to take on and eliminate difficult thoughts and feelings, ACT encourages accepting them and getting on with what’s most…

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  • West Meets East

    Ronald Siegel wrote this long article about mindfulness and psychotherapy for the clinician-readers of Psychotherapy Networker.  Doesn’t mean you can’t give it a look.  A sample: [M]indfulness is the opposite of experiential avoidance…It allows us to feel the urge to have an alcohol drink arise and pass rather than heading to the bottle, to get on the…

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  • Guided Meditations

    Another source of free guided mindfulness meditations emerges:  Spotify.  Here are a few collections that showed up in a search there. Plenty more where these came from. Enjoy. Judith Day – Introduction To Mindfulness Meditation Jon Kabat-Zinn – Mindfulness Meditation For Pain Relief Richard K. Nongard – Mindfulness Meditation Techniques: Guided Meditations to Help You…

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  • Peace is Every Step

    From the recommended reading list, Peace is Every Step by Thich Nhat Hanh, a short, simple call to mindfulness, personal and political.  In the book, some nice suggestions about mindfulness practice, including these lines to silently try out during mindfulness meditation: Breathing in, I calm my body. Breathing out, I smile. Worth a shot for the…

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