Melbourne Mindfulness Institute

18/07/2025

Psychological well-being is a part of overall health. A recent research paper has reported once again this finding (https://doi.org/10.1037/hea0001475). What does this mean? It means that your physical health is likely to be better if you take care of your psychological health. Psychological health is improved by exercise; good diet (reduced processed foods), hanging out in nature; spending time with people you enjoy - and reducing WORRYING. Getting some control of thought processes is amazingly impactful - and this can be achieved through mindfulness - serious mindfulness..in which you spend meditative time with yourself to get to know how your thinking impacts how you feel - learning to reprogram some of those negative thought habits. Come and join one of our programs if you want to improve these skills.

07/07/2025

It was great to see our research work cited and quoted in a recent publication "Buddhism and Psychiatry:
Moving Beyond Mindfulness in Mental Health Care" by Brendon Kelly. Chapter 5 discusses the importance of equanimity in emotion management. MiCBT is designed to develop equanimity.

18/06/2025

It's suddenly the middle of the year – how am I doing?
Looking back at my commitments in January – what’s changed? What’s the same?

Am I managing stress and creating work/life balance? Is it time I addressed managing stress differently?

You could think about learning how the mind and body operate and skills to respond to life with more calm, clarity, and control.
Our mindfulness program offers practical tools to help you:

Understand the processes that create stress

Build emotional resilience

Improve overall wellbeing, check the website - next 8-week program starts on 29th July

01/06/2025

This video explains neuroplasticity and how mindfulness meditation can lead to actual brain changes within just 6 weeks of practice. The next mindfulness program (mindfulness-integrated CBT) that teaches mindfulness meditation and how to use the skills to change unhelpful behaviours starts on 29th July.
Here's the link to the video:

There is growing evidence that simple, everyday changes to our lives can alter our brains and change how they work. So how do we keep our brains healthy? BBC...

18/04/2025

Stressful times? High anxiety? – consider joining our mindfulness +CBT course

Course dates and times (AEST):
8-week online course:

Tuesday May 20th – 6-8pm
Wednesday May 28th – 12noon – 2pm

4-week Refresher course:
Thursday 15th 12-1pm

19/01/2025

Mindfulness programs 2025
Our next Mindfulness Program starts on Tuesday 11th February -

- offering a wonderful toolkit to understand the relationship between thinking and emotions and the processes that create and maintain unhelpful habits enabling deep levels of change; a path to creating peace of mind.

If you don't think that working with a group will suit you individual therapy is available so that you can learn the skills in your own time and with attention to your personal issues.

09/05/2024