Stress & Pain Management
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Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
Background:
The course is modelled on the Stress Reduction Programme created in 1979 by Professor Jon Kabat-Zinn of the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
Two decades of published research based on the reports from many of the tens of thousands of particpants who have completed an MBSR course show:
- Lasting decreases in physical and psychological symptoms
- Increased ability to relax
- Reduction in pain levels - enhanced abiity to cope with chronic enduring pain
- Greater energy and enthusiasm for life
- Improved self-esteem
- An ability to cope more effectively with both short and long term stressful situations.
Why Participate?
Stress: work, family or financial
Anxiety and panic, Disturbed Sleep
Fatigue, Headaches, Chronic pain and illness, High blood pressure...
People come for a wide variety of reasons - it is the commitment to active participation in their own healing process which brings about greater balance and control in their life.
Mindfulness?
...is paying attention to whatever is happening in your life - relating directly with present-time experience - neither resisting the unavoidable nor grasping for the unobtainable. Restoring within yourself a balanced sense of health and well-being requires increased awareness of all aspects of self: body, mind, heart and soul. MBSR is intended to ignite this inner capacity. This kind of awareness is not a new skill to be acquired - it’s more an existing inner resource which has become obscured by habitual activity, inner dialogue, and pre-occupation.
Once released, this resource is available to enable learning, growing and healing - it can be developed further through the ongoing daily practice of the exercises learned during the MBSR programme.
Course structure:
The course is delivered over a period of 8 weeks with 8 evening classes of 2.5 hrs duration and one day-long (Sat or Sun) intensive towards the end of the course.
There will be a free ‘taster evening’ before the course begins and a chance for a one to one discussion with the facilitator to help decide if the course is right for you.
Course Components:
- Guided instruction in mindfulness meditation practices
- Gentle stretching & movement - yoga and chi-kung
- Inquiry exercises to enhance 'every-day life' awareness
- Group dialogue
- Individually tailored instruction
- Daily home practice assignments
- 2 audio cassettes and workbook
To register interest for next course please email info@martinwilks.plus.com
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