Learning MBSR: what's likely to be the most effective way to teach the bodyscan (general orientation)?
8th October 2011
I wrote a blog post a couple of days ago on "MBSR: how important is 'homework' and responses to the bodyscan". I mentioned there that I'd been through the bodyscan eight times in the previous few days guided by live or recorded directions from five different teachers (this included one …
Learning mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR): second evening of the course
7th October 2011
Yesterday evening was the second session of this eight week (plus a full day) Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) course that I am attending. I wrote a week ago about the initial group meeting. There are nine of us plus the trainer on the course, but one of us was unable …
Learning mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR): how important is "homework" and responses to the bodyscan
6th October 2011
So this is a week into a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) course. I've practised the "Body Scan" meditation eight times in the last eight days. Initially there was the practice session that we did at the first MBSR class that I talked a bit about in last week's blog post …
Recent research: articles from September journals
5th October 2011
I read a lot of research. When I find an article of particular interest I download it to my bibliographic database - EndNote - which currently contains over 16,700 abstracts. Every few weeks I scan through all the articles I've found interesting in the previous month (in the general areas …
Co-running a day on mindfulness & hypnosis
3rd October 2011
A dozen Powerpoint slides I put together for this seminar are downloadable by clicking here. A couple of days ago, a friend and I ran a day seminar on "Mindfulness & hypnosis" for the Scottish Branch of the British Society of Medical & Dental Hypnosis (BSMDH). The learning objectives we'd …