Tag mindfulness
Mindfulness and Meditation
This is the April 2012 issue of the Integrating Awareness Newsletter. The theme for this issue is Mindfulness and Meditation, with articles about: Effects of meditation on body and mind – scientific research findings; How meditation can help your brain…
Mindfulness practice can help you quit smoking – research report
Nearly half of all adult smokers attempt to quit smoking each year, but the majority of quit smoking attempts are unsuccessful. To quit smoking is a significant stress factor, which can cause irritability, disturbed sleep and other withdrawal symptoms that…
Mindfulness-based therapy
Mindfulness is about non-judgemental awareness in the here-and-now of one’s actual sensory experience + thoughts, feelings, reactions, behaviour and functioning. It is about noticing what is happening in each moment, to fully experience one’s life as it happens, rather than…
Eating-mindfulness; informal mindfulness practice
In mindfulness meditation you practise bringing your awareness back to, and remaining in contact with your actual, lived experience. Formal mindfulness meditation can also be complemented with informal mindfulness practices, where you, even momentarily, disengage from the thinking activity, by…
Breathing-mindfulness
Breathing-mindfulness is the most fundamental of all mindfulness meditations. It can be practised at any time in any place – as long as you are still breathing. However, you may find it easier to practise in a peaceful environment, particularly…
