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8-Week Mindfulness Practice Series

Mindfulness Skills have emerged as an important focus of several empirically supported treatments. Their roots of which are in the contemplative practices common to both eastern and western spiritual disciplines and to the emerging scientific knowledge about the benefits of “allowing” experiences rather than suppressing or avoiding them.

Our Mindfulness Practice Series is similar to those initiated by Jon Kabat-Zinn, Marsha Linehan, and others. We offer training that has shown to be effective for alleviating depression, anxiety, pain, emotional reactivity and stress. Fundamentally, our series is about practicing and training our minds to stay with and accept our here-and-now circumstances, whether pleasant or unpleasant, without judgment.

When we cultivate mindfulness, we learn the difference between primary pain (existential pain such as cold, loss, sickness) and secondary pain (our reactivity to primary pain such as being angry, depressed or fearful about our circumstances). From our direct experiences, we can see that primary pain becomes acceptable and secondary pain becomes optional. Concentration and relaxation are also common byproducts of the practice. Over time, with practice, mindfulness becomes a psychological power and skill that we can apply most anywhere and anytime in our lives to increase ease and reduce distress. It affords us awareness and the freedom to choose how to relate to difficult physical, emotional and mental states.

Daily practice is required.

Monday evenings from 6:30pm to 7:30pm.
New series begin in January, March, May and October.

For more information or to schedule an intake appointment,
please call our intake line at  609-844-0452 extension 713.

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