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What mindfulness is:
- a training in paying attention to experience as it happens
- a rigorously-researched treatment for anxiety and depression
- a way of enhancing well-being and performance
- recommended by the National Institute of Clinical Excellence
Mindfulness involves learning to direct our attention to our experience as it unfolds, moment by moment, with open-minded curiosity and acceptance. Rather than worrying about what has happened or might happen, it trains us to respond skillfully to whatever is happening right now, be that good or bad.
Brain imaging studies show that mindfulness practice reliably and profoundly alters the structure and function of the brain to improve the quality of thought, feeling and concern for others.
What is the point of mindfulness?
In adults. mindfulness training has been proven time and again to improve health and wellbeing. It also helps people of all ages to learn more effectively, think more clearly, perform better and to feel calmer, less anxious and less depresed. Mindfulness is now recommended by the National Institue of Clinical Execellence, and GPs are referring adults to 8 week courses that reduce stress and help prevent recurrent depression. It is increasingly being used in business to improve staff wellbeing and satisfaction, in sport training to improve performance and with children and young people and in schools to enhance wellbeing and learning.
How do people learn mindfulness?
Mindfulness is always learned in a highly practical way, through experience rather than talk. We gradually learn to direct our attention in a more focused way to whatever is actually happening – whether it be our breathing, the sensations in our body, thoughts and feelings, or everyday activities such as walking and eating.
Is it difficult?
At first the mind wanders constantly, but with practice we learn to sustain our attention and direct it more skillfully. this helps break the grip of unhelpful mental habits, judgements and impulses, making way for greater calm, and for more helpful, kinder and rational thinking about all aspects of life. However, its takes practice!
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Daniel Yeo, a regional business development manager and a sales trainer with over 10 years of corporate business & training experience in a Multi National Company, is a certified MBCT (Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy), and .b teacher. He is also a certified 6 seconds EQ practitioner. He integrates his daily mindfulness practices into his family and the hectic work and business environment and has benefited from it tremendously. He is passionate about bringing mindfulness to working professionals, teenagers, children and parents.