What is Mindfulness?

Timothea Goddard, Director of Openground Mindfulness Training, answers the big question: What is mindfulness?

Openground mindfulness programs - Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction - MBSR.
Mindfulness practice offers an invitation to move towards greater balance, choice and participation in life.
Through mindfulness training we learn how to bring acceptance and curiosity to all of our experience – sensations, thoughts, emotions and actions, and the situation we are in. This way of seeing can free us up to respond with more clarity and wisdom, rather than acting out of habitual patterns.
It opens up the possibility of working more wisely and compassionately with difficulties in life and to choose what is nourishing for ourselves and others.
Two decades of published research indicates that the majority of people who complete a course in Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) report:
• Lasting decreases in physical and psychological symptoms
• An increased ability to relax
• Reductions in pain levels and an enhanced ability to cope with pain that may not go away
• Greater energy and enthusiasm for life
• Improved self-esteem
• An ability to cope more effectively with both short and long-term stressful situations.

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