Mindfulness decreases stress while benefitting health

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Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is a powerful tool to decrease stress, enhance academic performance, and promote emotional and social well-being. Mindfulness is increasingly recognized as an essential support for students, teachers, school administrators, and parents.

MBSR focuses on developing a person's capacity for attention and awareness, and creates the optimal underlying conditions for all learning and teaching. Many schools across the country are introducing Mindfulness into their curricula, and several well-known institutions including Stanford, UCSF, and UCLA are conducting research in the field.

Mindfulness is the simple practice of paying attention to one´s experiences (thoughts feelings, physical sensations) moment-by- moment with non-judgmental awareness. Mindfulness training develops skills such as:

• Attention and concentration
• Emotional and cognitive awareness and understanding
• Body awareness and coordination
• Interpersonal awareness and communication skills

Decades of research have shown that mindfulness decreases stress, attention deficit issues, depression, anxiety, and hostility while benefiting health, social relations, academic ability, and most importantly a sense of wellbeing.