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Presented by:
Dr. Tiffany Griffiths, Clinical Psychologist, PA Licensed (Mindfulness Practitioner)
Phil Sallavanti, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Teacher and Practitioner
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
What is Meditation?
Medicine and Meditation arise from the same Indo-European root:
Meaning: to measure
Suggesting an action to establish wholeness and health
MBSR has at its core the practice of mindfulness mediation and the intention to establish wholeness
Definition of Stress
Stress is the response to a perceived threat to our psychological or physical well being coupled with the believe that we don’t have the resources to cope
Body sensations
Thoughts
How we perceive something actually shapes our experience
Body can’t distinguish between a thought and an actual threat
Hard wired for stress response
What happens in a traffic jam?
• Offered at > 700 medical centers in U.S. and around the world
• Over 20,000 patients have participated in the UMass program
• 35 years of research on a wide range of chronic clinical ailments
• 700% increase in the amount of studies since 2003
• The National Institute on Health has conducted over 200 studies on mindfulness alone
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
Stress reduction
Reduced rumination
Boosts to working memory
Increase in attention
Less emotional reactivity; emotional dysregulation
More cognitive flexibility
Relationship satisfaction
Numerous health benefits
Increases in academic success
Reduction in psychological symptoms
Empirically supported benefits of mindfulness
Depression
Anxiety
Trauma, including combat trauma
ADHD
Behavioral Disorders
Sleep Disorders
Eating Disorders
Benefits to Mental Health
Coronary Artery Disease Hypertension Cancer Chronic Pain Fibromyalgia Diabetes IBS Asthma/Respiratory Disorders Psoriasis Headache Multiple Sclerosis Quality of Life Rheumatoid Arthritis
Benefits to Physical Health
Brain Changes
Participation in an MBSR program results in increases in regional brain gray matter density regions associated with learning, memory, emotion regulation, and perspective taking.
Holzel, et.al. (2011) found that an 8-week MBSR program changed the structure of the brain in the areas of the amygdala, posterior cingular gyrus, and the left hippocampus. These brain regions are responsible for the fear response, attention , and emotional regulation.
Neuroplasticity: practicing something new; severing/pruning old connections and forming new, healthier connections
MBSR Research at Jefferson
Prison setting
Military
Corporations
Schools
Sports
Other Areas of Research
MBSR is an 8-week intensive training in mindfulness meditation, based on ancient healing practices, which meets on a weekly basis. Mindfulness practice is ideal for cultivating greater awareness of the unity of mind and body, as well as of the ways the unconscious thoughts, feelings, and behaviors can undermine emotional, physical, and spiritual health.
MBSR
8 week program
2 ½ hours a weekEducational, not a therapeutic orientation; classes provide a community of learning and practice for motivation, support, and belonging. Focus is on what‘s right with you not what‘s wrong with you.
The program
The “triangle” of awareness:• Body sensations
• Thoughts
• Emotions
But we don’t always bring attention to our awareness• Much of the day, we’re on autopilot
• Attending to the body/breath brings us into the present moment immediately
Awareness is Continuous
The Time is NOW