Overview Who is it for? Mindfulness training is useful for a broad range of people with diverse backgrounds, ages, interests and levels of well-being. It can enhance learning, concentration, creativity, personal resilience and professional effectiveness. For people with job, relationship and family pressures, it can help with all kinds of day-to-day stress symptoms including headaches, irritability, high blood pressure, fatigue and sleep disturbances.   It is effective for those with serious conditions including depression (relapse prevention), anxiety and panic disorders, cancer, heart disease, diabetes, respiratory disease and chronic pain. "Our findings suggest the usefulness of MBSR as an intervention for a broad range of chronic disorders and problems. ... improvements were consistently seen across a spectrum of standardized mental health measures including psychological dimensions of quality of life scales, depression, anxiety, coping style and other affective dimensions of disability. Likewise, similar benefits were also found for health parameters of physical well-being, such as medical symptoms, sensory pain, physical impairment, and functional quality-of-life estimat...." MBSR and Health Benefits: A Meta-analysis (Grossman, P.,Neimann, L., Schmidt, S., Walach, H.) Journal of Psychosomatic Research 57 (2204) 35-43. What is mindfulness? Origins of the programme Who is it for? What does it involve? How does it work? Letting go is powerful The importance of practice