WELL-BEING & MENTAL HEALTH

I ran a series of tweets on mindfulness over the past 10 days on the social media networking site Twitter. I have listed here in consolidated form, from the earliest to the most recent.

Attached below is a link that will display the content in PDF format.

Extracts:

‘The experience of people who practise mindfulness is now being backed up by science. Within the past few years, neuroscientists have been using MRI technology to look at the brains of people who meditate. The results have been fascinating.’

‘Mindfulness training draws on the ancient traditions of meditation and yoga, often incorporating insights from modern medicine and psychotherapy.’

‘Buddhist thinkers have taken great interest over the centuries in the way the human mind works.’

‘In the 1990s, mindfulness took a quantum leap into the world of mental health and psychotherapy when three leading psychologists from the UK and Canada developed Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) as a treatment for people with a history of recurrent depression.’

‘Mindfulness can help us to cope better with a range of conditions including chronic pain and heart disease. It has been shown to strengthen the immune system, improving our responses to illnesses ranging from flu to psoriasis and even to HIV.’

The range of content shared can be viewed here (PDF format) > MINDFULNESS