Jon Kabat Zinn : Cure Depression And Anxiety - GUIDED MEDITATION

 

Published on Jul 11, 2016

Cure Depression And Anxiety - GUIDED MEDITATION

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Jon
Kabat-Zinn (born Kabat on June 5, 1944) is Professor of Medicine
Emeritus and creator of the Stress Reduction Clinic and the Center for
Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of
Massachusetts Medical School. Kabat-Zinn was a student of Buddhist
teachers such as Thich Nhat Hanh and Zen Master Seung Sahn and a
founding member of Cambridge Zen Center. His practice of yoga and
studies with Buddhist teachers led him to integrate their teachings with
those of science. He teaches mindfulness, which he says can help people
cope with stress, anxiety, pain, and illness.

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Mindfulness - An introduction with Jon Kabat-Zinn

 

Published on Apr 5, 2015

This
is a public talk that the mindfulness pioneer Jon Kabat-Zinn gave at
Oslo University, Norway, in April 2011. Jon talks about the challenges
and benefits with mindfulness practice, about research and how
mindfulness can transform and heal both us as individuals and the
society as a whole.

"Mindfulness - An introduction with Jon Kabat-Zinn" runs 1:34, and is produced by Johan Bergstad, Mindfulness Academy Scandinavia: http://mindfulnessacademy.com
Jon Kabat-Zinn's Series 1-3 are now available as apps: http://mindfulnessapps.com

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9 Attitudes Jon Kabat Zinn

 

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No Small Thing: The CFM, Mindfulness, and the Healing of the World

 

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BE MINDFUL NOW

LOST

Stand still.
The trees ahead and the bushes beside you Are not lost.
Wherever you are is called Here,
And you must treat it as a powerful stranger,
Must ask permission to know it and be known.
The forest breathes. Listen. It answers,
I have made this place around you,
If you leave it you may come back again, saying Here.

No two trees are the same to Raven.
No two branches are the same to Wren.
If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you,
You are surely lost. Stand still.
The forest knows Where you are.
You must let it find you.




An old Native American elder story rendered into modern English by David Wagoner, in The Heart Aroused - Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America by David Whyte, Currency Doubleday, New York, 1996.

Mindfulness as a Love Affair with Life: An Interview with Jon Kabat-Zinn

 

 

Mindfulness
Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) founder Jon Kabat-Zinn talks about what
mindfulness is, what it isn't, and how we can use mindful techniques to
improve our health and wellbeing.

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Jon Kabat-Zinn - "The Healing Power of Mindfulness"

  

The Tucker Foundation and Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
present
Jon Kabat-Zinn

"The Healing Power of Mindfulness"

April 7, 2011
Spaulding Auditorium
Dartmouth College

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Put some space between the event and your reaction

5 steps to put some space between the event and your reaction, 

from @MindfulOnline #mindfulness

Everyday Mindfulness

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Logotherapy

 
Developed by Viktor Frankl, the theory is founded on the belief that human nature is motivated by the search for a life purpose

Logotherapy is the pursuit of that meaning for one's life.  

Frankl's theories were heavily influenced by his personal experiences of suffering and loss in Nazi concentration camps.

 

Origins of Logotherapy

Victor Frankl was born in Vienna in 1905. He trained as a psychiatrist and neurologist, working from the framework of existential therapy. 

During World War II, Frankl spent about three years in various Nazi concentration camps, an experience that greatly influenced his work and the development of logotherapy.  

Frankl observed that those who were able to survive suffering in the concentration camps, typically found some meaning in it, such as a task that they needed to fulfill, (i.e., to testify against the Nazis).

For Frankl personally, his desire to rewrite a manuscript, that had been confiscated upon arrival at Auschwitz, was a motivating factor. 

After the camps were liberated, Frankl resumed his work as a neurologist and psychiatrist. 

In 1946, he published 'Man’s Search for Meaning', outlining his experiences in the concentration camps as well as the basic tenets and techniques of logotherapy.

Components of Franklian Philosophy

There are three main components that are at the heart of the Franklian philosophy:

1. Each person has a healthy core.
 
2. The primary focus is to enlighten a person to their own internal resources and to provide them with the tools to use their inner core.
 
3. Life offers you purpose and meaning; it does not owe you a sense of fulfillment or happiness.

Finding Meaning with Logotherapy

Logotherapy is based on the premise that humans are driven to find a sense of meaning and purpose in life. According to Frankl, life’s meaning can be discovered in three different ways:

1. By creating a work or accomplishing some task
2. By experiencing something fully or loving somebody
3. By the attitude that one adopts toward unavoidable suffering

Frankl believed that suffering is a part of life, and that man’s ultimate freedom is his ability to choose how to respond to any set of given circumstances, even the most painful ones. 

Additionally, people can find meaning in their lives by identifying the unique roles that only they can fulfill. 

For example, when a man consulted with Frankl due to severe depression following the death of his wife, Frankl asked him to consider what would have happened if he had died first and his wife had been forced to mourn his death. The man was able to recognize that his own suffering spared his wife from having that experience, which served as a curative factor and helped relieve his depression.

Logotherapy Techniques

The three main techniques of logotherapy are:

1. Dereflection: Dereflection is used when a person is overly self-absorbed on an issue or attainment of a goal. By redirecting the attention, or dereflecting the attention away from the self, the person can become whole by thinking about others rather than themselves.

2. Paradoxical intention: Paradoxical intention involves asking for the thing we fear the most. For people who experience anxiety or phobias, fear can paralyze them. But by using humor and ridicule, they can wish for the thing they fear the most, thus removing the fear from their intention and relieving the anxious symptoms associated with it.

3. Socratic dialogue: Socratic dialogue is a technique in which the logotherapist uses the own person's words as a method of self-discovery. By listening intently to what the person says, the therapist can point out specific patterns of words, or word solutions to the client, and let the client see new meaning in them. This process allows a person to realize that the answer lies within and is just waiting to be discovered.

Conditions Treated with Logotherapy

Logotherapy is founded on a belief that many illnesses or mental health issues are actually due to existential angst. Through his work, Frankl found that people struggled with feelings of meaninglessness, a situation which he referred to as the existential vacuum. 

Logotherapy can be used to treat a wide range of issues that are existential in nature.  
More specifically, 

 logotherapy has been found effective in the treatment of:

1. - substance abuse, 
 
2. - posttraumatic stress, 
 
3. - depression, and anxiety. 
 
 
 
Criticism of Logotherapy

One of the primary criticisms of logotherapy comes from Rollo May, who is considered to be the founder of the existential movement in the United States. 

May argued that logotherapy is authoritarian, in that it suggests that there are clear solutions to all problems and that Frankl provides people who utilize this therapy with meaning if they are unable to find their own. 

Frankl was aware of May’s criticism and refuted the idea that logotherapy takes responsibility away from the individual; He maintained that logotherapy actually educates the person in therapy about his or her own responsibility.






References:

1. Biography. (n.d). Victor Frankl Institut. Retrieved from http://www.viktorfrankl.org/e/chronology.html
2. Bulka, R.P. (1978). Is logotherapy authoritarian? Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 18(4), 45-54.
3. Delavari, H., Nasirian, M., & Baezegar bafrooei, K. (2014). Logo therapy effect on anxiety and depression in mothers of children with cancer. Iranian Journal of Pediatric Hematology Oncology, 4(2), 42-48.
4. Frankl, V.E. (1959). Man’s search for meaning. Boston: Beacon Press.
5. Smith, A.J. (2013). Logotherapy to treat substance abuse as a result of military-related PTSD. Journal of Military and Government Counseling, 1(1), 61-74.

Last updated: 07-02-2015

Logotherapy Articles

• Logotherapy: How a Few Questions Can Aid the Grief Process

  

 

 Source: http://www.goodtherapy.org/learn-about-therapy/types/logotherapy

 

 

 

 

A sense of purpose in life

Why a Sense of Purpose in Life Is Important For Health

Conclusion:

A sense of purpose in life also gives you this considerable advantage:

"People with a sense of purpose in life have a lower risk of death and cardiovascular disease."

The conclusions come from over 136,000 people who took part in 10 different studies.

Participants in the studies were mostly from the US and Japan.


The US studies asked people:

• how useful they felt to others,
• about their sense of purpose, and
• the meaning they got out of life.

The Japanese studies asked people about ‘ikigai’ or whether their life was worth living.

The participants, whose average age was 67, were tracked for around 7 years.

During that time almost 20,000 died. 
But, amongst those with a strong sense of purpose or high ‘ikigai’, the risk of death was one-fifth lower.

Despite the link between sense of purpose and health being so intuitive, scientists are not sure of the mechanism.

Sense of purpose is likely to improve health by strengthening the body against stress.

It is also likely to be linked to healthier behaviours.

Dr. Alan Rozanski, one of the study’s authors, said:

“Of note, having a strong sense of life purpose has long been postulated to be an important dimension of life, providing people with a sense of vitality, motivation and resilience.

Nevertheless, the medical implications of living with a high or low sense of life purpose have only recently caught the attention of investigators.

The current findings are important because they may open up new potential interventions for helping people to promote their health and sense of well-being.”

This research on links between sense of purpose in life and longevity is getting stronger all the time:

• “A 2009 study of 1,238 elderly people found that those with a sense of purpose lived longer.
• A 2010 study of 900 older adults found that those with a greater sense of purpose were much less likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease.
• Survey data often links a sense of purpose in life with increased happiness.

"No matter what your age, then, it’s worth thinking about what gives your life meaning.”

Read More:

Find out what kinds of things people say give their lives meaning.

Here’s an exercise for increasing meaningfulness

And a study finding that feeling you belong increases the sense of meaning.

The study was published in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine (Cohen et al., 2015).


Link: http://www.spring.org.uk/2015/12/here-is-why-a-sense-of-purpose-in-life-is-important-for-health

Heavyweight champion Jack Johnson squaring off with robot called "Boilerplate" at a 1910 training camp

 

A photo of heavyweight champion Jack Johnson squaring off with robot called "Boilerplate" at a 1910 training camp #boxing #history

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow.   

 - Mary Anne Radmacher

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The secret to a loving and lasting marriage

The secret to a loving and lasting marriage, Gibran offers:

Let there be spaces in your togetherness,
And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

Love one another but make not a bond of love:
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Fill each other’s cup but drink not from one cup.
Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf.
Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone,
Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.

Give your hearts, but not into each other’s keeping.
For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.
And stand together, yet not too near together:
For the pillars of the temple stand apart,
And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other’s shadow.

  The Prophet

Om Mani Padme Hum - Original temple mantra version

Om Mani Padme Hum - Original temple Buddhist mantra version







"Mantras
may be interpreted by practitioners in many ways, or even as mere
sequences of sound whose effects lie beyond strict meaning.

The
middle part of the mantra, maṇipadme, is often interpreted as "jewel in
the lotus," Sanskrit maṇí "jewel, gem, cintamani" and the locative of
padma "lotus", but according to Donald Lopez it is much more likely that
maṇipadme is in fact a vocative, not a locative, addressing a
bodhisattva called maṇipadma, "Jewel-Lotus"- an alternate epithet of the
bodhisattva Avalokitesvara. It is preceded by the oṃ syllable and
followed by the hūṃ syllable, both interjections without linguistic
meaning."

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Get Your Proper Rest

Be Mindful to avoid disastrous modes of thought

Mindfulness of Sound Meditation

Mindfulness Project ‏@LondonMindful


A lovely mindfulness of sound #meditation from Chris Germer:

http://www.mindfulselfcompassion.org/audio/MindfulnessofSound.mp3 …

Link: https://twitter.com/londonmindful

Boost your self-compassion

Healthbeat

Four ways to boost your self-compassion

Take a moment to think about how you treat yourself when you make a mistake or fail to reach a goal. If you tend to beat yourself up when things go wrong, you, like most people, can use a little more self-compassion in your life.

Forgiving and nurturing yourself seem to have benefits in their own right. They can even set the stage for better health, relationships, and general well-being. So far, research has revealed a number of benefits of self-compassion. Lower levels of anxiety and depression have been observed in people with higher self-compassion. Self-compassionate people recognize when they are suffering and are kind to themselves at these times, thereby lowering their own levels of related anxiety and depression.

Learn to have self-compassion

Some people come by self-compassion naturally, but not everyone does. Luckily, self-compassion is a skill you can learn. Several methods have been proposed, and training programs are being developed, to help people discover and cultivate their own self-compassion.

Here are four ways to give your self-compassion skills a quick boost:

• Comfort your body. Eat something healthy. Lie down and rest. Massage your own neck, feet, or hands. Take a walk. Anything you can do to improve how you feel physically gives you a dose of self-compassion.
• Write a letter to yourself. Think of a situation that caused you to feel pain (a breakup with a lover, a job loss, a poorly received presentation). Write a letter to yourself describing the situation, but without blaming anyone — including yourself. Use this exercise to nurture your feelings.
• Give yourself encouragement. Think of what you would say to a good friend if he or she was facing a difficult or stressful situation. Then, when you find yourself in this kind of situation, direct these compassionate responses toward yourself.
• Practice mindfulness. Even a quick exercise, such as meditating for a few minutes, can be a great way to nurture and accept ourselves while we're in pain.

For more ways to draw on your strengths and find the positive meaning in your life, purchase Positive Psychology, a Special Health Report from Harvard Medical School.


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Originally published: January 2016

Daily Health Tip

Go easy on over-the-counter painkillers

Aspirin, acetaminophen, ibuprofen, and naproxen are great for easing everyday pain. But they can boost blood pressure, be hard on the stomach, and interact with other medications. If you need long-term pain relief, ask your doctor about the best options for you.

Related Topics

• Mental Health
• Positive Psychology

Source: http://www.health.harvard.edu/mental-health/4-ways-to-boost-your-self-compassion

Useful Sklls

Hard skills that require constant practice:

1 giving a sincere compliment

2 listening with intent to learn

3 talking less, but saying more

South American Magellanic penguin and the man who saved his life.

 South American Magellanic penguin who swims 5,000 miles each year to be reunited with the man who saved his life.

Today’s most heartwarming story is brought to you from a beach in Brazil.

It’s the story of a South American Magellanic penguin who swims 5,000 miles each year to be reunited with the man who saved his life.

Retired bricklayer and part time fisherman Joao Pereira de Souza, 71, who lives in an island village just outside Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, found the tiny penguin, covered in oil and close to death, lying on rocks on his local beach in 2011.

Joao cleaned the oil off the penguin’s feathers and fed him a daily diet of fish to build his strength. He named him Dindim.

After a week, he tried to release the penguin back into the sea. But, the bird wouldn’t leave. ‘He stayed with me for 11 months and then, just after he changed his coat with new feathers, he disappeared,’ Joao recalls.

And, just a few months later, Dindim was back. He spotted the fisherman on the beach one day and followed him home.

For the past five years, Dindim has spent eight months of the year with Joao and is believed to spend the rest of the time breeding off the coast of Argentina and Chile.

It’s thought he swims up to 5,000 miles each year to be reunited with the man who saved his life.

‘I love the penguin like it’s my own child and I believe the penguin loves me,’ Joao told Globo TV. ‘No one else is allowed to touch him. He pecks them if they do. He lays on my lap, lets me give him showers, allows me to feed him sardines and to pick him up.

It’s thought Dindim believes the fisherman is also a penguin (Picture: TV Globo)

‘Everyone said he wouldn’t return but he has been coming back to visit me for the past four years. He arrives in June and leaves to go home in February and every year he becomes more affectionate as he appears even happier to see me.’

Biologist Professor Krajewski, who interviewed the fisherman for Globo TV, told The Independent: ‘I have never seen anything like this before. I think the penguin believes Joao is part of his family and probably a penguin as well.

‘When he sees him he wags his tail like a dog and honks with delight.

And, just like that, the world seems a kinder place again.