Browse By Categories
Tag mindfulness
Mindful Breathing Therapy; mindfulness-based, integrative breathwork
Mindful Breathing Therapy, also sometimes referred to as ‘Integrative Breathwork’, is an experiential, mindfulness-based, body-oriented approach at the leading edge of modern psychotherapy. It is classed as a mind-body, complementary health practice, and is becoming increasingly popular as an alternative…
The Quest for Happiness
For some reason I have recently found myself in conversation with several clients about what causes happiness, what makes you happy. Now, the word ‘happy’ may not be everyone’s cup of tea. Some people would see ‘happy’ as at best…
How you can benefit from Mindfulness Meditation practice
I have written extensively about the benefits of Mindfulness Meditation practice in various articles on my website. Perhaps you have read some of them, perhaps you have never gone there to have a look? Either way, I want to provide…
Meditation for Depression and Anxiety instead of Medication
Mindfulness meditation is a form of meditation where you withdraw your engagement with the incessant chatter of the mind, and draw your awareness toward your sensory experience of the present moment, while suspending judgement and mental commentary. It is a…
Depression and Heart Failure
When we talk about the heart and matters of the heart, language is ambiguous. Sometimes we refer to the fist-size muscle in the chest. Other times we refer to a centre of feelings. And rarely would we be referring to…
Integrating Awareness on Facebook
I was looking through my postings on the Facebook page for Integrating Awareness, and I realised that there are a whole lot of items there that are very interesting and that you may have missed unless you follow that page…
Mindfulness; current research findings
The benefits from developing mindfulness skills is continuing to be demonstrated by scientific research projects all over the world. I have recently published an article on my website, in which I summarise a few interesting research findings from the past…
Mindfulness research findings
Scientific mindfulness research findings continue to demonstrate how this ancient practice can have various beneficial effects. This article summarises mindfulness research findings that show that mindfulness practice reduces the risk for heart attacks, that it increases working memory capacity and…
Interesting benefits from mindfulness meditation
Commonly, when people wish to explore the benefits from mindfulness meditation, it is because they want to be able to slow down their minds that otherwise typically seem to run wild most of the day, so that they can have…
Pain and mindfulness
The February 2013 issue of the Integrating Awareness Newsletter explores chronic pain and mindfulness practice for managing chronic pain, with two new articles that you may want to read; Meeting pain with mindfulness – what’s the point of that?!; Mindfulness…
Meeting pain with mindfulness
Pain. You have experienced it many times. We all have. Sometimes it may be intense and short-lived. Other times it may linger for an extended time. And occasionally it can become chronic, i.e. continue for months or years or forever.…
Mindfulness and Chronic Pain; research findings
Acute pain relating to tissue injury (caused by trauma, or by surgery) is one of the most frequent reasons why patients are seeking medical care, and pain is the most common complaint in primary care overall. While most patients who…
