Professor Jon Kabat-Zinn is the founder and former director of the Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. His research is profound and helped to bring the practice of mindfulness meditation into mainstream medicine and demonstrated that practicing mindfulness can bring improvements in both physical and psychological symptoms as well as positive changes in health attitudes and behaviors.

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Mindfulness improves well being

• Increasing your capacity for mindfulness supports many attitudes that contribute to a satisfied life.

• Being mindful makes it easier to enjoy the pleasures in life as they occur, helps you become fully engaged in activities, and creates a greater capacity to deal with adverse events.

• By focusing on the present moment, many people who practice mindfulness find that they are less likely to get caught up in worries about the future or regrets over the past, are less preoccupied with concerns about success and self-esteem, and are better able to form deep connections with others.

Mindfulness improves physical health

• stress reduction

• treat heart disease

• lower blood pressure

• reduce chronic pain

• improve sleep

• alleviate gastrointestinal difficulties

Mindfulness improves mental healh

• depression

• substance abuse

• eating disorders

• improve interpersonal relationships

• anxiety disorders

• obsessive-compulsive disorder

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