Secular mindfulness began in the clinical realm with Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), which was developed in the early 1980s by John Kabat-Zinn in the US for people experiencing chronic health conditions. This inspired the development of Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) in the mid-1990s by Mark Williams and others within the UK as an…
I did the members teaching this week on this topic of living without regret. To prepare for it I looked at some research on this topic. Research by Gilovich et al (1995) looks into what people regret most in their lives and why, and indicates that mistaken actions generate more regret in the short term,…
Learn mindfulness in nature at Samye Ling, Dumfriesshire, Scotland.
This is the introduction to our Level 1: Being Present Mindfulness Training taught on a Wednesday evening (Parts Two to Four). If you have started a Level 1 Mindfulness Course, have missed a module and wish to complete the course, you may join this course. Tutor: Alan Hughes Dates on a Wednesday evening: Part 2-…
6 Week Online Course on Mindfulness in Daily Life with Fay Adams Live sessions on Zoom bi-weekly on Monday evenings 7pm – 8.15pm: Live sessions- 8th January, 22nd January, 5th February, 19th February, 4th March and 18th March 2024 Including: 8 specially pre-recorded videos of up to 40 minutes 6 ten minute guided daily life…
How participants feel they have benefited from this course Mindfulness, Qigong & Yoga Retreat Weekend at Samye Ling or Online. This weekend is now fully booked, to be added to the waiting list please contact info@mindfulnessassociation.net As we get older many of us can get stuck in old habits, such as neglecting self-care, not getting…
It’s important to live well, to make make the most of each moment of our lives; if we train in mindfulness it can help us to catch glimpses of joy amidst the difficulties of daily life, and we can begin to navigate life’s challenges more easily. Our May calendar supports you with daily prompts to…
Here at the Mindfulness Association we offer a long term systematic training in meditation that moves through practices for cultivating mindfulness, compassion, insight and wisdom. As we do this we don’t leave the previous practices behind but they form a foundation for future practices and also provide a rich collection of practices to revisit whenever…
“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few” ― Shunryu Suzuki My mind is full, and not always mindful. And I’ve been doing this a while. It’s not getting easier, but it is geting deeper, messier. What a joy! The deep path of mindfulness training as opposed to the…