Our Mindfulness Stress and Anxiety Management Groups meet in Center City Philadelphia. Groups are held on Thursday evenings at 7:30 pm and Sunday after noon at 1 pm. The groups generally run every 9 weeks. Call 610-517-3127 for more information on start dates.
You can learn to relate more skillfully to your emotions using mindfulness. A common mistake that we make, however, is depending on our rational, problem-solving mind to fix negative emotions. Remember that emotions are a complex fusion of feelings, thoughts, urges, and bodily sensations. You can only experience emotions, you cannot fix them. Trying to …
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There are many therapeutic approaches that help decrease human distress and suffering. In this article, I will talk about two approaches, including a mindfulness practice, that have been influential and successful in understanding and treating many mental health and quality-of-life issues. Both are based in a present-moment orientation and represent a welcome joining of Eastern …
Mindfulness: Identifying our thoughts, images and automatic reactivity to them. Seeing our thoughts instead of being our thoughts. Paying attention For many years as I ate a meal I noticed that often the last bite of whatever I was eating tasted so good. Better than all the other bites, in fact. I have to admit that …
There are many myths and misunderstandings regarding what a mindful meditation practice is. So let’s start from the end. I’ll explain what I mean by starting from the end. I have a friend who, while in music school years ago, used to practice all the wrong notes in a musical scale on his saxophone. This …
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