…g attention to the out-breath. This first appeared in Ambassador Magazine, Detroit, Michigan Join Dr. Donna Rockwell for the free April 18 Webinar “Mindfulness: The Way to Happiness and Meaning.” [SlideDeck2 id=16211]…
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…tation. On March 14, she and I will be presenting an online CE Webinar on “Mindfulness in Everyday Life: Incorporating Mindfulness Techniques into Clinical Practice.” When I had the chance to interview Donna on this subject, she described the state that most people pass their time in, in which they are either “bemoaning the past or catastrophizing the future.” We spend very little time in the present. Mindfulness expert Jon Kabat-Zinn has describe…
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…links below if you would like to begin exploring the ineffable benefits of mindfulness. In the interview “Mindfulness as a Love Affair with Life,” Kabat-Zinn says that the practice helps people “get out of their smallness and start to feel the entirety of themselves, which brings up spirituality” (2015). But you don’t have to believe in any kind of higher power to experience what Kabat-Zinn refers to as “spirituality.” Words like “freedom” or “exp…
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…d to be fully present with our experiences as they are happening. How does mindfulness practice impact mental health? Mindfulness positively impacts our mental health by decreasing judgment and decreasing the amount of time we spend daydreaming about the past and the future. Over the past 30 years, the effects of mindfulness meditation have been studied by medical doctors, neuroscientists, and psychologists. It has been found to improve immune sys…
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…dfulness for Life: An Interview with Jon Kabat-Zinn In this DVD, Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn defines mindfulness as a way of “connecting to your life.” He discusses the “hard work” of living in the present moment, the personal and psychological impacts of developing a practice of mindfulness, and the benefits of utilizing mindfulness in therapy. He also touches upon mindfulness in parenting. Drawing upon his years of experience and research in the field of…
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…-based childbirth and parenting. It’s now going on and on and there’s also mindfulness based psychotherapy. There’s mindfulness informed psychotherapy where the psychotherapist isn’t actually teaching mindfulness, but they’re practicing it themselves and there are studies that are showing that when the therapist practices mindfulness, the outcomes of the therapy are much improved. Because you become the instrument for resonating or for attuning wi…
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…rtner. When we know ourselves, we become stronger in our relationships. As mindfulness expert Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn notes, mindfulness is about paying attention to the present moment on purpose and without judgment. If we stay in the moment with our partners, we are far less likely to build a case against them, to catalog their flaws or turn against them at the drop of a hat. Instead, we can take each moment as it comes. We can cultivate empathy, ins…
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…Watch excerpts below from PsychAlive’s exclusive interview with Dr. Donna Rockwell. Mindfulness expert, Dr. Donna Rockwell discusses the benefits of mindfulness and meditation in both life and in clinical practice. She also leads a series of short mindfulness exercises. YouTube responded with an error: The playlist identified with the request’s <code>playlistId</code> parameter cannot be found. Read more from Dr. Donna Rockwell …
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…world. To assist in this training, clients are also instructed to practice mindfulness eating and mindfulness walking. The goal is to engage slowly in only one activity at a time, while being mindful of all 5 senses in the process. Narrative writing: Narrative writing is a very powerful mindfulness training that incorporates the process of exposures. This exercise requires clients to write about their most feared situations. Exposures via writing…
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…fulness this and Mindfulness-based that’. Along with this wave of ideas on Mindfulness come too many misperceptions. As if mindfulness were a product for purchase, that once we own, will make us better. I fear that the word itself, in its overuse, leads to the rolling of eyes, “oh no, not that again!”, or an over consumption of its superficial application. It takes a lot of courage to be mindful, not easy this seemingly simple awareness of right n…
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