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Welcome to the Vancouver Centre for Mindfulness Therapies. My mission to help people learn and apply mindfulness tools in their lives in order to reduce anxiety, stress, depression, pain and suffering. Mindfulness therapies can help you with: Stress Anxiety Depression Physical pain Managing medical conditions AND other psychological concerns. People today seek ways to manage anxiety, depression, pressure, stress, as well as chronic physical pain or medical conditions. Mindfulness therapies have been shown to assist people in gaining mastery over their lives, their bodies, and both emotional and physical pain. Mindfulness Mindfulness allows us to train our minds in order to gain mastery rather than feel at the mercy of anxious or depressive or worrisome thoughts that become invasive and torturous. Through practices of mental and body awareness, mindfulness gives you the tools to manage life’s difficulties and challenges with more clarity and mastery. Mindfulness is both a practice and a philosophy of life. Mindfulness refers to the practice of being present moment to moment with open awareness to what arises. Mindfulness is intensive training in the art of mastering our minds; of learning how to free ourselves from oppressive and suffocating thoughts. Mindfulness is a practice that trains us to be grounded in the present rather than tortured by the past or anxious about the future. In this way, we are able to have clarity and mastery over our lives and our emotions. “MBSR is intensive training in the art of living” Jon Kabat-Zinn MBSR is an 8-week program that was developed at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. This program is aimed at helping participants learn how to manage the physical and psychological symptoms of stress related to psychological or medical stressors. MBSR is a well-defined and systematic client-centered program that uses mindfulness tools and meditation to teach participants to live better and more adaptive lives. The anxious mind is always worrying about what might go wrong, or what might happen if…. or about unfounded fears and feelings of overwhelm. Someone with anxiety feels trapped by their anxious thoughts. The depressed mind feels sad, hopeless, wishing things to be different. The stressed mind feels pressured and sees life as if it was an Everest mountain to climb. The pain mind feels trapped in a body that is not healthy; fears eternal pain, dwells on possible solutions, or can feel tired and hopeless. MBSR is a program that teaches participants how to relate to and manage their personal pain and struggles in more effective and self-caring ways. MBSR is training in how to gain mastery over our minds so that we can weaken the power of anxious, depressive, obsessive, stressful, or torturous thoughts. MBSR teaches participants a series of mindfulness practices that invite more clarity and calm in the midst of life’s storms. Life is like the ocean, sometimes it is calm and sometimes it is stormy and aggressive. In MBSR we think of life as the ocean and of MBSR as giving you the tools to navigate life in a way that reduces stress and improves your overall quality of life. MBSR is a program within the behavioral medicine field.

The Vancouver Centre for Mindfulness Therapies offers Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and individual mindfulness based psychotherapy.

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