MEDITATION STEPS
Choose an object of attention-breath
Return to the breath every time your mind wanders
Direct the mind to predominant sensations or emotions
Be aware of sensations or emotions with acceptance
MBSR TECHNIQUE
MBSR-Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction
Developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn at Umass Medical Center in America (also known as MBCT-Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy)
It is one of the preferred treatments
for stress, anxiety and depression
recommended by UK’s National
Institute for Health and Clinical
Excellence
Scientists in the West have proved
the positive results of various forms
of MEDITATION, introducing in
psychology what ancients have known all along.
BENEFITS OF MINDFULNESS MEDITATION
Decrease of anxiety, depression and irritability
Memory improvement
Stress reduction
Reducing the impact of illness
More fulfilling relationships
Improvement of the immune system
Breaking negative habits
MOODS AND EMOTIONAL PROBLEMS
When you feel sad, anxious or irritable, it is not the mood that does the damage but how you react to it.
We try to find out WHY we are unhappy-solving a problem.
Your emotions are connected to memory and you always find the ones that echo your bad emotional state.
A few sad thoughts can bring up many unhappy memories and judgments that are hard to stop.
Meditation allows you to accept your moods without judgment and achieve clarity on the causes of unhappiness
DOING MODE AND BEING MODE
Our present culture overvalues our ability to do things, to be active, to change our environments
With emotional problems, the mind tries to do things by finding explanations and solutions to what we feel
Being Mode is a shift in perspective
-similar to taking a vacation and removing yourself from stress
-it increases your AWARENESS of your thoughts as if you were watching them from the top of a mountain
Habits
Intentional action
Analyzing
Sensing
Effort
Acceptance
Seeing Thoughts as Real
Seeing Thoughts as Mental Events
Avoidance
Approaching
Mental Time Travel
Present Moment