Mindfulness
Mindfulness is the foundation of our work together. Mindfulness is the art of paying attention to experience, on purpose, without judgment.
In psychotherapy I will help you learn to connect more deeply with yourself and your life in the present.
Mindfulness is the practice of slowing down and connecting deeply with your inner health.
It is how you notice and become nourished by all that is good and beautiful in you and your life. It is the background music and the support to your happiness.
All aliveness, vitality, creativity, and happiness emanate from deep intimacy and contact with the “now” as it unfolds, moment to moment.
I draw from teachings I have received and practiced from many great and well-known teachers of mindfulness, Buddhism, and psychology: Thich Nhat Hahn, Pema Chödrön, Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche, Eckhart Tolle, and Byron Katie, among others.
Despite the fact that roots of mindfulness and meditation come from the eastern wisdom traditions of Asia, one does not need to be Buddhist or Hindu to meditate or practice mindfulness.
Through learning forms of meditation that are friendly to all religious traditions and secular settings, what is discovered is inner peace, love, gratitude, humility, happiness, and a spacious and clear mind.
Benefits of Mindfulness
- increased subjective well-being
- reduced psychological symptoms and emotional reactivity
- improved behavioral regulation
- higher levels of positive affect, life satisfaction, vitality, and adaptive emotion regulation
- lower levels of negative affect and psychopathological symptoms
- increased job satisfaction and less work exhaustion
Source: Effects of mindfulness on psychological health: A review of empirical studies & Benefits of mindfulness at work: the role of mindfulness in emotion regulation, emotional exhaustion, and job satisfaction
