Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)

Mindfulness is a type of meditation based on learning to direct our attention towards our experience as it unfolds from moment to moment – and because it’s presented in a completely secular and accessible way, it’s perfect for schools.

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…. mindfulness is less about spirituality and more about concentration: the ability to quiet your mind, focus your attention on the present, and dismiss any distractions that come your way…

…In 2011, researchers from the University of Wisconsin demonstrated that daily meditation-like thought could shift frontal brain activity toward a pattern that is associated with what cognitive scientists call positive, approach-oriented emotional states — states that make us more likely to engage the world rather than to withdraw from it… ()

Meditation might do for the brain what push-ups do for the body, suggests new research. Findings from brain imaging studies show meditation might keep the brain young, guarding from atrophy and other changes associated with aging.  ()

Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center researchers found meditating for one hour has a powerful effect on the brain for reducing perception of pain and deactivating areas of the brain that process pain. ()

“Mindfulness meditation is a process that quiets the mind and releases physical distress. Through mindfulness, you can experience greater vitality and well-being,” explains Diane Reibel, Ph.D., research associate professor of Physiology at Jefferson Medical College of  Thomas Jefferson University and director of the Stress Reduction Program. ()

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