If you want to learn how to take better care of yourself and discover a deeper sense of ease and peace of mind—and if you are willing to actively engage in your own health and well being, we welcome your participation in our eight-week MBSR program.
MBSR is based on a form of meditation known as mindfulness. Mindfulness is a basic human quality, a way of learning to pay wise attention to whatever is happening in your life that allows you a greater sense of connection to your life inwardly and outwardly. Mindfulness is also a practice, a systematic method aimed at cultivating clarity, insight, and understanding. In the context of your health, mindfulness is a way for you to experientially learn to take better care of yourself by exploring and understanding the interplay of mind and body and mobilizing your own inner resources for coping, growing and healing. Mindfulness is not something you have to “get” or acquire. It is already within you—a deep internal resource available and patiently waiting to be reawakened.
Jon Kabat-Zinn started MBSR at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in 1979. Nearly three decades of scientific research at UMASS and at medical centers all over the world suggest that training in mindfulness and MBSR can positively and often profoundly affect participants’ ability to reduce medical symptoms and psychological distress while learning to live more fully.
The Stress Reduction Program has benefited people reporting a variety of conditions and concerns:
Stress—with work, school, family, financial, illness, aging, grief, uncertainty about the future, and feeling “out of control”.
Medical conditions—chronic illness or pain, hypertension, cardiovascular disorders, allergies and asthma, skin disorders, GI distress and many other conditions.
Psychological distress—anxiety, panic, depression, fatigue, and sleep disturbances.
Prevention and Wellness—health enhancement and wellness focused on prevention and learning the “how” of taking good care of yourself and feeling a greater sense of balance.
Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction is meant to work synergistically as a compliment with medical and psychological treatments. Studies over the last three decades suggests that doing what you can for yourself, coupled with what your healthcare provider can do for you, can be far more effective than either approach on its own.
Dates
The program consists of eight weekly 2 hour classes and one day long practice (on a weekend) between sessions six and seven. Classes will include meditation practices, mindful movements such as yoga and qi gong, and group discussions.
Our first class will be a free introduction to MBSR held on Thursday, March 1.
Classes will be held from 6-8pm on Thursday evenings starting on March 8.
Cost
$295 for the module (8 sessions plus the day long practice) + $20 materials fee (includes MBSR workbook)
Teachers
Christopher Gunst, MFTI
Dr. Jennifer Gunst, DAOM, L.Ac
Links
For additional information please visit www.cnmhealth.com and www.umassmed.edu/cfm/stress/index.aspx.
Please contact the front desk at 650-323-7345 or email info@cnmhealth.com to sign up.
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