Mindfulness Therapies

 

Mindfulness is a human ability, or mental and physical state, of bringing people’s attention or awareness to what is happening in the present moment – aware of what we are doing and not overly reactive by what is going on around us.   The most common mindfulness practice is through mindfulness meditation - it is a self-regulation practice that focuses on training attention and awareness in order to bring mental processes under greater voluntary control and thereby fostering general mental well-being and development and/or specific capacities such as calmness, clarity and concentration.

 

Mindfulness practices can be useful for everyone.  There are also more structured mindfulness practices catered for people with mental health concerns.  For examples, mindfulness-based stress reduction and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy are developed for people with anxiety and depression respectively.