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Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction
By: Richard Squailia
Wouldn't you like to be able to reduce the stress in your life? You can, and the benefits aren't taxable! They aren't fattening, most people won't even know your doing it and you won't have a hangover.
So, what's the deal?
Stress can be brought on by just about anything that happens to us in living a full life. Most often the big stresses involve our health, families and jobs.
How can I change?
Over the years, many people have found that there is an art to facing our lives in ways that lead to effective solutions, physical wellness and inward peace. We call the kind of moment to moment awareness invoked by tuning in to your breath and to every other aspect of your life mindfulness. Mindfulness-based stress reduction is designed for people who want to work with their own stress, pain, and illness in order to mobilize their own inner resources of mind and body for growing, healing, and taking charge in new ways in their lives.
Where can I start?
You can start right where you are! There are programs around the world modeled on the acclaimed University of Massacheusetts Stress Reduction Program. MBSR programs are typically outpatient (if in a hospital setting) as well as community or organization based. They are typically designed as eight-week long courses taken to complement other medical treatments or in a certain context, such as schools or sports. Course length may vary according to many factors. However, the aim is to assist people in taking better care of themselves, and in getting the most out of living by participating in life in the most vital ways they know or can learn. This requires a strong commitment to do this work oneself through a gentle but rigorous daily discipline of meditation and relaxation over the eight weeks. It is often said that to take the Stress Reduction Program can be stressful. But it is also likely to be pleasurable and empowering as well.
You can learn more about this approach through books on the subject and courses offered in your area. And you can contact me for more information - rit@mbsr.com
Bio:
Richard Squailia is involved in exploring how mindfulness techniques integrate with medicine,business and society. He has studied meditation since 1975, first at the Rochester Zen Center, and currently as a member of the Springwater Center and the Quaker-led School of the Spirit. He has earned an MBA from the University of Rochester, and has worked for 20 years as a health care executive. He brings this in-depth experience to health care organizations interested in the formation of behavioral and complementary medicine centers. He has assisted The Graduate Hospital and Thomas Jefferson University in setting up and running their Stress Reduction and Mind-Body Centers.
Mr. Squailia maintains a professional relationship with the University of Massachusetts Stress Reduction Clinic, which is used as a model for Stress Reduction Programs worldwide. He has participated in the Teachers Development Intensive at U Mass., which is described as an effort to build a core teachers community for mindfulness-based stress reduction practitioners.
www.mbsr.com
rit@mbsr.com
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