With this powerful workbook, you'll learn effective skills based in mindfulness and positive psychology to help you manage difficult emotions, gain distance from negative thoughts, and
enhance your awareness of the present moment.
Our 12 - week program is adapted from MBSR, a structured 8 - week program
of instruction in the cultivation
of mindfulness, a practice
of purposeful nonjudgmental attention to the happenings
of the
present moment.5 MBSR programs consist
of 3 components: (1) didactic material related to mindfulness, meditation, yoga, and the mind - body connection; (2) experiential practice
of various mindfulness meditations, mindful yoga, and body
awareness during group meetings and encouragement
of home practice; and (3) group discussion focused on the application
of mindfulness to everyday situations and problem - solving related to barriers to effective practice.5, 13,14 The MBSR program includes a number
of formal and informal techniques, all
of which share the goal
of enhancing nonjudgmental
present - focused
awareness, aimed to reduce dysregulated focus on the past (ie, rumination) and worries about the future (ie, anxiety).
Mindfulness training is an intervention based on eastern meditation techniques, that helps increasing
awareness of the
present moment,
enhances non-judgmental observation, and reduces automatic responding (Kabat - Zinn 2003).