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How mindfulness meditation helps me feel less busy and less stressed?

31/8/2018

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 "Stress is inevitable in life in life and how we approach it  will flavour our experience."
                                                                                                     
Jill Bolte- Taylor
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In the MBSR course, I teach we begin by using a 16th-century definition of the word stress. 
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  "The sore pressure or strain of adversity, trouble, hunger, sickness, pain, or sorrow; anguish or affliction affecting the body, spirit, or community."
 
 
I like this definition for many reasons. It honours this phenomenon of stress, elevating it to distress.  We often fob off the experience of 


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What's the best way to breathe in mindfulness meditation?

31/8/2018

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I've just spent 4 days on a mindfulness retreat, recharging my internal batteries. A new participant asked the teacher a great question. She said, "sometimes you tell us we should slow down our breath to bring about a state of relaxation and at other times you tell us just to notice it and not change it. So which is right, changing the breath or letting it be?"


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    Tienne Simons is a therapist and the founder of HeadRest Mindfulness training. She did her training in MBSR when she became convinced that the program was not only a useful add on to therapy for many but sometimes a more appropriate way to support people than counselling. She has had a mindfulness practice for about 30 years- well nearly!

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