What is Mindfulness?

Mindfulness is a well researched approach known to increase well being and resilience. It is supported by modern psychology and neuroscience. It involves choosing to turn our attention away from spirals of thinking towards our present moment experience and the information from our senses.  By focusing on what is happening right now, and cultivating a kind and non-judgemental attitude to ourselves, we can learn to develop a different relationship with what distresses us. Using the simple, but ever present, tools of our breath and our bodies, and becoming deeply attuned to them, we can learn to be aware of thoughts and emotions, and, instead of being overwhelmed by them, we can become better able to manage them. We can discover new ways of responding intelligently to difficulties, rather than reacting in old, often unhelpful, automatic patterns.

Mindfulness can help us find a place of stillness in the complicated and often bewildering world we live in.