The practice of mindfulness can bring many benefits to your physical and emotional health as well as to the relationships in your life. Mindfulness is an excellent tool for stress management and overall wellness because it can be used at virtually any time and can bring about lasting results.
Mindfulness-based practices incorporate techniques such as meditation and yoga that can help individuals improve their ability to stay present in each moment, cope with stress, and be more authentic and emotionally intelligent. At its heart, mindfulness is the practice of paying attention from moment to moment in a non-judgmental way. This practice opens the door to greater awareness, wisdom, and self-healing. Mindfulness is perhaps, most simply, a way of learning to embrace life on its own terms, and in the process, to begin learning from it and growing in self-awareness, wisdom, inner peace and empathy.
MINDFULNESS CAN HELP YOU:
-recognize signs of stress and deal more effectively with challenging situations
-discover how thoughts can help or hinder stress management
-communicate more effectively
-become more emotionally intelligent
-manage relationships and responsibilities more effectively
-access your inner peace, power, and vitality
-grow in empathy and compassion for yourself and others
-discover your true creative expression and live a more heartfelt life
Mindfulness based practices have been shown to help people in a variety of ways such as dealing with chronic pain (Kabat-Zinn, Lipworth, & Burney, 1985; Kabat-Zinn, Lipworth, Burney, & Sellers, 1986), anxiety disorders (Kabat-Zinn et al., 1992; Miller, Fletcher, & Kabat-Zinn, 1995), binge-eating (Kristeller & Hallett, 1999), reduction of stress among cancer patients (Carlson, Speca, Patel, & Goodey, 2003; Speca, Carlson, Goodey, & Angen, 2000; Tacón, Caldera, & Ronaghan, 2004), and increasing quality of life among those with traumatic brain injuries (Bédard et al., 2005). It has also been shown to increase gains among people involved in individual outpatient psychotherapy (Kutz et al., 1985; Weiss, Nordlie, & Siegel, 2005). Overall, empirical evidence suggests that MBSR can benefit a wide variety of people (Baer, 2003; Grossman, Niemann, Schmidt, & Walach, 2004). Mindfulness can increase one's degree of empathy (Wang, 2007) and compassion (Shapiro, Astin, Bishop, and Cordova, 2005). It can also improve one's ability to focus (Kerr et al., 2011) and have a beneficial impact on depression, anxiety, overall well-being, and stress (Spijkerman, 2016). Mindfulness can also improve chronic pain management, IBS, PTSD, and diabetes (Creswell, 2019). Mindfulness-based therapy also helped people ages 50 to 80 improve their sleep quality (Perini, 2021).
THE BENEFITS OF MINDFULNESS
Mindfulness can help you become more aware of the patterns in your life
Studying mindfulness with Geoff will provide you with specific tools that can help you more effectively manage the inherent stress that life can bring. Geoff can help you learn how to more fully embrace whatever you are experiencing and use it as an opportunity to grow in acceptance and empowerment. The tools you will learn will be ones you can turn to whenever you are feeling overwhelmed or stressed.
Whether you are new to mindfulness or looking for ways to deepen and strengthen your own practice, working with Geoff can help you achieve your goals. The strategies that Geoff can teach you will be ones that can be used to form a strong foundation from which to grow your mindfulness practice - a practice that can ultimately lead you to greater insight, awareness, and wisdom.
The tools and strategies that you will learn from Geoff will be ones that you can apply to all facets of your life on a daily basis - from your career to your relationships to your finances. As you begin to practice and apply these skills, you will discover that they are constantly at your disposal. You will also more clearly understand how they hold the potential to enrich all aspects of your life - for your entire life.
STUDYING MINDFULNESS WITH GEOFF
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Mindfulness can help you be more present with yourself and others in your life
“I feel like I have more choices now when I need to calm down and relax my body. I believe I will continue to pay more attention to my body and how I feel inside.” - Deb M.
