Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction
Mindfulness is a common translation of a term from Buddhist psychology that means ‘awareness’ or ‘bare attention’. Jon Kabat-Zinn, who pioneered the introduction of mindfulness into Western medicine in the late 1970s, defines it as “the awareness that emerges through paying attention on purpose, in the present moment, and nonjudgmentally, to things as they are.”
In mindfulness-based psychotherapy, the goal is not to turn everyone into a dedicated meditation expert, but to help clients find more balance, peace, kindness and fulfillment in their lives.