Registration is currently open for two fall Mindfulness Center courses. The six-week virtual Introduction to Mindfulness for Healthcare Employees course begins next week, with the first class on Wednesday, September…
Telehealth Mindfulness-Based Interventions Improve Pain and Function among Veterans with Chronic Pain Mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) are considered to be evidence-based treatments for chronic pain. The purpose of this study was…
Meditation can help us increase our capacity to choose what thoughts we pay attention to. The mind is a thought generator and, if it is not actively engaged in a task, will nearly continuously produce thoughts. These aren’t thoughts we actively choose to think, they just arise, and we may spend much or our time caught up in them, even if we would prefer not to. In attention-focused meditation, we select an object to pay attention to, such as the breath, and then notice when the mind wanders, including when thoughts arise. As soon as we become aware of a thought we have a choice. We can either stay lost in the thinking or we can let it go and bring our attention back to our breathing. As we do this over and over again, we may find that there are longer periods of time between thoughts. We also may notice thoughts more quickly when they do arise, and we may be able to let them go more easily. One of the outcomes of doing this is that, as we let thoughts go, we may feel less stressed and more relaxed. Engaging in attention focused meditation is also practice for dealing with thoughts that arise when we are not meditating.
University of Virginia Compassionate Care Initiative (CCI) Learning Series Lecture with Dr. Courtney McCluney, EquiWell Partners "Making Room for Rest and Recovery in Healthcare" Tuesday, September 10, 12-1 PM McLeod…
Registration is currently open for three fall Mindfulness Center courses, including Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, the eight-week in-person Mindfulness for Healthcare Employees course, and the six-week virtual Introduction to Mindfulness for…
Effects of Mindfulness-Based Interventions on Symptoms in Trauma-Related Disorders and Exposure to Traumatic Events Interoception is the sense of the internal state of the body. Alterations in interoception are often…