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The Science of Mindfulness: A Research-Based Path to Well-Being
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This 24-part video or audio course provides practical skills anyone can use to deal more effectively with everyday psychological challenges and live a richer, happier, more fulfilling life. Once you understand the core components of mindfulness practices and how they work to alleviate psychological distress, you’ll be able to creatively adapt them to meet your needs.
You’ll develop a solid theoretical understanding of mindfulness from both ancient wisdom and modern scientific perspectives, receiving instruction and guidance in how to develop a regular mindfulness practice and how to work with obstacles and challenges that may arise as you pursue it.
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Healing Through Mindfulness: Effective Practices for Chronic Health Conditions
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What’s keeping you from feeling better? Current research shows that a remarkable amount of pain and illness is actually caused by our attempts to get rid of it. With Healing Through Mindfulness, you’ll learn evidence-based mindfulness techniques to resolve a wide range of disorders maintained by psychological stress and other blocks to healing. This program will help you go beyond symptom management to really heal.
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Integrating Mindfulness Into Counseling and Psychotherapy
This video demonstrates real mindfulness-oriented psychotherapy sessions with four clients, complete with commentary and analysis. You’ll see:
- Carl, a man in his sixties with past suicidal ideation and current financial stress develop a “felt sense of meaning.”
- Julia, a woman in her 20s grieving multiple deaths and suffering from anxiety track her moment-to-moment physical experience with acceptance rather than aversion.
- Lorraine, a middle-aged woman with chronic back pain get in touch with the fear which exacerbates her condition.
- Mac, a Japanese-American man who lived in an internment camp as a child, move toward greater emotional awareness in his desire to connect with his wife.
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Mindfulness for Anxiety
American Psychological Association
This video demonstrates work with a young man who presents with stress-related chronic neck pain. First, I help the client to see that the mind plays a critical role in his presenting problem. Next, using the therapeutic understanding that resistance to mental and physical discomfort exacerbates suffering, I work to identify the physical sensations and emotions that the client is struggling to avoid.
Through practicing acceptance of pain sensations, anxiety, and other emotions, the client is able to become more comfortable with these experiences as they arise, placing him on a path toward freedom from his disorder.
