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Author: OMC
5 things that need your attention in an MB course
Getting through a mindfulness-based intervention program is a challenge for many reasons. We bring a lot of expectations that it will change our life in one way or another. We hope that we will find an answer to the questions that plague us and brought us to the course. We anticipate we will develop skills [...]
Pervasive awareness
Recently, there was an interchange on a mindfulness listserve about the appropriateness and/or usefulness of movement during meditation (rocking, swaying, etc.). John Astin of the Baumann Institute offered this very important insight to practice: Apropos this whole discussion about rocking during meditation and what it might mean, I thought I would share the following... Whether [...]
Meditating helps psychological functioning
Recent research by Emily Lykin and Ruth Baer at the University of Kentucky (Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy: An International Quarterly, 2009, vol 23(3)) showed that the long term practice of meditation (over 7 years) has positive effects on psychological well-being. Long term meditators were compared to non-meditators on various tests and they reported better able to Observe Be nonjudgemental of [...]
5 things to practice during a mindfulness course
Here are five things you may want to practice as you go through a Mindfulness-Based intervention (MBSR, MBCT, MB-anything): 1 - Practice! Try your best to do the "homework". We play around with the word, calling it "homework" may lead to feelings of being back in school. So we call it "home practice", "gifts", "suggestions", [...]
Ottawa Mindfulness Clinic 