MBSR and Stress

 Would taking an MBSR course help to reduce my stress in life?

Yes, but it is also dependent on maintaining a consistent MBSR practice and developing a greater capacity to care for the self.

In practicing MBSR, we learn how to focus on “the now,” and to pay better attention in our day-to-day lives. We learn to recognize the negative mental states, what we call rumination, that are often at the origin of stress and anxiety. We learn to observe when we fall into “Automatic Pilot” mode, which can take over 90% of our lives if we don’t learn how to recognize it and are not aware. 

As Jon Kabat-Zinn says about remaining present in the here and now: “It reawakens to what you already are.”

MBSR is highly respected within the medical community. It is not offered as an alternative to traditional medical and psychological treatment, but as a complement to those approaches.