Mindfulness

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Mindfulness Brings Life
To the Journey

Mindfulness is the energy that sheds light on all things and all activities…bringing forth deep insight and awakening.
– Thich Nhat Hanh

Mindfulness is both an ancient and a cutting edge therapy.
Today we know many wonderful things about how the body, mind, and human experience work together. We also are fortunate to be able to see the results of many studies that show positive outcomes from psychobiologically oriented therapies that incorporate recent advances in neuroscience along with ancient wisdom and understanding about philosophy and spirituality. Mindfulness of is one name for a collection of practices and beliefs that can reduce stress and enhance health. It is a popular “buzz word” that even finds its way into the medical establishment and is now used in both a therapeutic way as well as a spiritual way.

Mindfulness therapy resembles other approaches that incorporate mind and body work together, such as Somatic Experiencing, Hakomi, and yoga.Mindfulness research demonstrates that our very physiology can be changed by mind-body work with an informed, compassionate, and intelligent therapist. When we find the beautiful wholeness and unity of body and psyche, we each have the opportunity to say: “I feel truly comfortable in my own skin!”

Dr. Bessel van der Kolk: “Mindfulness increases activation of the medial prefrontal cortex and decreases activation of structures like the amygdala that trigger our emotional responses. This increases our control over the emotional brain.”

As we work together in therapy, we learn new techniques to handle fear, stress, anxiety, anger, frustration, and shame. We learn to track our awareness and experience the present differently. Mind and body work together to create new neural networks that support regulation and balance. Pain accumulated from unfortunate events, difficult relationships, or inherited traits can be accessed through the body as well as through the mind. We work to gain entrance to these pathways and patterns in the way that is tailored to your own comfort. There is no “canned” therapy when we work together on your whole being. Together we find what your body and personality are ready to do to reweave the fibers of resilience.
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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one’s head. - Mark Twain
Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one’s head.
– Mark Twain

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly. - Buddha
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
– Buddha

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Thinking's just like not thinking – So I don't have to think any more - Jack Kerouac
Thinking’s just like not thinking – So I don’t have to think any more
– Jack Kerouac

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Perhaps we are here in order to say: house, bridge, fountain, gate, pitcher, fruit-tree, window...to say them more intensely than the things themselves ever dreamed. - Rainer Maria Rilke
Perhaps we are here in order to say: house, bridge, fountain, gate, pitcher, fruit-tree, window…to say them more intensely than the things themselves ever dreamed.
– Rainer Maria Rilke

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Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable. - Aristotle
Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable.
– Aristotle

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