Mindfulness & Growth
 
Mindfulness encourages personal growth through awareness of self-limiting beliefs, fears & behaviours, while accessing insights and inner wisdom.       more >>

More on Mindfulness


  • How can mindfulness have such wide-ranging effects on well-being? A recent study finds mindfulness is not actually a single skill, but a multi-faceted mental practice that encompasses several mechanisms. more >>
  • Mindfulness and neuroplasticity: Discover how mindfulness meditation changes brain structure in positive ways after only a few weeks of mindfulness practice. more >>
  • Mindfulness as a Foundation for Health: A video of a workshop about how the fundamentals of mindfulness lay the path to optimal health and happiness at the Google complex, led by Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh. more >>
  • Mindfulness meditation helps improve quality of life: Mindfulness meditation has benefits for health and performance, which include improved immune function, reduced blood pressure, and enhanced cognitive function. more >>
  • Mindfulness is a technique for slowing down and examining one’s thought processes, and learning to be in the moment. Researchers are studying its benefits for everything from depression to stress. more >>

 

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Mindfulness & Depression
 
Struggling with depression? Mindfulness can help you reduce negative thoughts and moods, and feelings of helplessness and hopelessness.    more >>
Mindfulness & Anxiety
 
If you're feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, mindfulness helps you reduce worry and panic, slow down your mind and racing thoughts, and relieve your anxiety.    more >>
Mindfulness & Stress
 
Mindfulness offers an effective ways to relax, reduce stress, prevent stress from accumulating, and cope with stress when it gets overwhelming.    more >>
 

Benefits of Mindfulness


zen mindfulness stonesMindfulness allows you to relate to and deal directly with whatever is happening in your life. Instead of struggling to escape, suppress or avoid distressing thoughts and feelings, mindfulness helps you manage whatever is going on without becoming overwhelmed.

When you start being more mindful and start living in the present moment, you'll experience your life more fully, and become more in touch with yourself, who you are, what is important to you, and what you want out of life.

In addition to helping you learn to deal effectively with the worries, negative thoughts, painful emotions and distressing physical sensations that contribute to issues such as depression, anxiety, panic, stress and low self-esteem, some of the other benefits associated with mindfulness include:
  • Increased ability to relax and improved sleep
  • Enhanced sense of well-being
  • Greater energy and enthusiasm for life
  • Improved concentration and problem solving
  • Greater satisfaction in personal relationships
  • Becoming less judgmental and treating others with greater acceptance
  • Decreases in medical symptoms such as chronic pain and high blood pressure and improved immune function and resilience


Mindfulness also teaches you to pay attention to the world around you, allowing you to completely engage with whatever you're experiencing on a moment-to-moment basis, notice more, and appreciate the little things in life. This awareness of the present moment can lead to times of great peace, joy and intimacy as you participate more fully in your life and your experiences.
 




 
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For more information, or to book an appointment for mindfulness-based counselling and therapy in Toronto, please call Greg at 416.516.6024 or complete the Contact Form above.


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