My Week of Insight Meditation
The IMS approach to meditation focuses on mindfulness as a means of cultivating clear awareness and insight into the causes of suffering, and into the […]
My Week with Jon Kabat-Zinn
I just came back from a 7-day retreat with Jon Kabat-Zinn and his colleague Saki Santorelli. They were teaching Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) for healthcare professionals at the Omega Center in Rhinebeck, New York.
Physicians Are Healing Themselves with Mindfulness
There is a growing number of doctors in Montreal who practice Mindfulness to help them care for their patients – and for themselves. Jay Reid wrote an interesting piece, featuring Dr. Flanders, that appeared in the Montreal Gazette on Thursday, April 19th, 2012.
Anxiety & Exposure: Facing Your Fear
What’s the take-home message? Cognitive Behaviour Therapy provides tools to modify thoughts and behaviours, which in turn diminishes anxiety and and lifts mood.
21-Day Mindfulness Challenge
My Mindfulness practice stumbled a bit over the holidays. And after slumbering through the first week of the new year, I am finally ready to apply myself to re-invigorating my meditation practice. Over the course of the 21 days, I’ll be sitting every day and occasionally sharing some reflections on the experience on this blog, facebook, and twitter. Feel free to join in.
Emotion Focused Therapy
The basic tenets of Emotion Focused Therapy are very simple. Emotions such as sadness, anger, surprise, fear and happiness are adaptive and, without them, humans would have not survived.
