"Healing is coming to terms with how things are."
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Being unwell and in pain can cause shock, mental anguish and distress. While mindfulness training doesn’t necessarily change the illness itself, our programs have been shown to change how we are relating to the illness with reduced stress, anxiety, depression and pain, as well as improv symptom management and enjoyment of life.
The Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program promotes self-awareness, self-care, self-regulation, and self-management of disease, by ‘buffering’ emotional and physiological reactions to stress, providing one plausible biological mechanism for protecting against stress-related diseases.
Learn about how MBSR helped Erin to manage her MS symptoms
How MBSR can help
MBSR is recommended as an adjunct treatment for:
- Diabetes
- Hypertension
- Cancer
- Chronic pain
- Parkinson’s
- Osteo- and Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Multiple sclerosis
- Gastrointestinal disease
- Migraines
Participants of our course report:
- More interest and participation in life
- More connection with others
- Reduced pain and increase ability to "be with" the pain\
- More patience and acceptance of what is going on
- Reduced stress and distress
- Enhanced quality of life
- Less self criticism and judgement
