MBSR Ireland - Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction

26/01/2023

❤ If you or someone you know really needs some help managing STRESS. The Next LIVE Online MBSR Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Course, is now taking bookings (Limited to 10 places). Starts Wed 8th March. (See information below)

This is the official 8 week Gold Standard Mindfulness course, recommended by Doctors & Counsellors worldwide. Only highly trained, qualified professional MBSR instructors can offer it. It is the Mindfulness course on which all other courses are based.

Follow the link in the post below. You will be able to book your place and an orientation call with myself. This will set you up for beginning the course on the 8th March.

Una
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LINK: https://mindfulnessandcreativity.ie/mbsr-online-live-course-8-week/

This Live-Online Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) 8-week course uses a combination of mindfulness skills including, meditation, body awareness, mindful movement, mindful communication, awareness of emotions, and regulation of stress triggers and reactions, to assist people coping with STRES...

24/01/2023

❤️Mindfulness exercises can be as effective as anxiety drugs, a new study shows.

A recent study published in JAMA Psychiatry showed that people who received eight weeks of mindfulness-based interventions experienced a decrease in anxiety that matched those who were prescribed escitalopram, a common anti-anxiety medication that is often prescribed under the brand name Lexapro.

LINK: https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/01/23/mindfulness-meditation-anxiety-medication/

Breathing and body exercises helped relieve anxiety as effectively as medications over an eight-week study of 208 people.

21/01/2023

❤ RETREAT DAYS Coming Up in February

👉Beginners Retreats and Advanced Meditators Retreats

👉Full Days of Guided Self-Nurturing Mindfulness Practices

👉Dates Announced This Week (Places Limited)

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Una
(Professional MBSR Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Instructor)
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I will be giving two Retreat Days:

❤(Level 1 ) To suit Beginners, random meditators, and rusty meditators

❤(Level 2) To suit Experienced, Advanced Meditators, & MBSR Graduates

Places are limited to 12 participants on each retreat ... I will be putting up the booking link on Tuesday / Wednesday 😉❤🙏❤

14/01/2023

❤ Are You Surviving or Thriving? Here’s How to Tell

When love feels scarce, we are conditioned to slip into survival mode. Caverly Morgan shares wisdom on how we can create pathways for remembering the heart of who we are.

LINK: https://www.mindful.org/are-you-surviving-or-thriving-heres-how-to-tell/

When love feels scarce, we can slip into survival mode. Caverly Morgan shares wisdom on how we can move from surviving to thriving.

11/01/2023

❤️ Stress effects us all. It seems the pressure we are all under, seems to be increasing by the day. I am genuinely honoured to be able to teach people the potent, life changing skills, contained in the MBSR Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Course. When someone votes for themselves, and signs up to take this, globally recognised, Gold Standard course, I commit 100% to being with them every step of the journey. My promise to each and every participant, is to offer 100% support in every way that is possible.

This is why I have created the Interactive Dashboard, which each participant has personal access to, while taking the course. It took me 3,500 hours to create. Now each participant has 24/7 access to their own, easy to use, Personal Support Dashboard. This is the only Live Online MBSR course Globally, with this comprehensive level of support.

Offering this course Online is working better than I ever could have imagined. Participants feedback and reviews are genuinely humbling.

Thank you Carmel for your wonderful review, I really appreciate it.

Una
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If you or someone you know is stressed and would like to take this training course, which teaches highly effective skills to address stress. The next Live Online 8 wk course starts 18th Jan (Wednesday evenings). Places are limited and are now booking.

(Only highly trained, qualified, professional MBSR Mindfulness instructors can offer this course)

👉FOR MORE INFORMATION :
https://mindfulnessandcreativity.ie/online-course/

11/01/2023

❤️ Why Self Awareness Is The Most Important Skill For Hybrid Leadership

Self-awareness is the ability to recognize and understand your emotions, values, beliefs, behaviors, passions, purpose, etc.





https://www.forbes.com/sites/williamarruda/2023/01/10/why-self-awareness-is-the-most-important-skill-for-hybrid-leadership/

Incorporating self-awareness into the early stages of leadership development programs helps provide success-driven talent with the necessary foundation on which to build their unique platform.

11/01/2023

❤️7 ways to feel better at work and avoid burnout
Symptoms of burnout include energy depletion or exhaustion, decreased productivity, and increased negative feelings toward work.

LINK:

It's time to work smarter, not harder.

15/12/2022

❤️DELIGHTED To Receive this REVIEW !!!
When a participant takes the time to write a review it means a lot. When Andrea was signing up for the course, she had concerns that her computer skills were not the best, and she was worried she may not be skilled enough to take an online course. I was able to put her mind at ease immediately.

As well as being a highly experienced Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Instructor, I have a HDip in Digital Media Design. This allows me to anticipate potential areas of difficulty, which participants, new to technology might have.

Every aspect of taking a LIVE Online course with me, has been made super easy, nothing is taken for granted. Participants are guided through every step of the journey, from our first conversation on the phone, to booking a place, to logging onto the weekly Live Zoom classes, to opening, navigating and using your own mid-week "Personal Interactive Support Dashboard"

I have literally taken the STRESS out of moving online and navigating technology. I have made every step supper easy, smooth and a pleasure to complete.

The "Personal Interactive Support Dashboard" is the first of its kind globally. It is designed specifically for the MBSR Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Course. It has taken 3,500 hours of dedicated work to create this, for participants taking this world renowned MBSR course LIVE Online with me.

You are supported from the moment you make contact with me. I offer you my full support and guidance right the way through, on every level.

If you are interested in taking this Gold Standard, World Recognised, Stress Reduction course, recommended by Doctors and Counsellors worldwide, then see the link below.

The next 8 week MBSR course starts Wednesday 18th January (7pm -9.30pm). Places are limited to 10 participants. So you will need to make contact early, as places tend to book up fast.

Thank you so much Andrea for sharing your experience of taking this 8 week course Live online.

Una Keeley
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(Professional Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Instructor)

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👉MORE INFORMATION & BOOKING :
https://mindfulnessandcreativity.ie/online-course/

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14/12/2022

❤️WONDERFUL RECCOMENDATION !!!
Thank you so much Breda Mc Donald for your great recommendation, It is so very much appreciated 🙏

14/12/2022

❤ Leaders who practise mindfulness are more present, give others space, seek to understand others’ perspectives and emotional states, and act for the common good

LINK:

https://www.newswise.com/articles/calmness-and-the-common-good-anyone-mindfulness-can-help-deal-with-challenges-in-working-life






The Next LIVE Online Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Course starts on 18th January 2023. Places are now booking. If you are interested in taking this Gold Standard course, recommended by Doctors and Counsellors Worldwide, then click on the link below.

👉 LINK: https://mindfulnessandcreativity.ie/online-course/

10/12/2022

❤ ABSOLUTELY LOVING IT !!!
I never thought I would be offering and facilitating Online Courses. I didn't think it would work, and I didn't think I would like it. But I have proven myself Sooooo wrong. Now with a comfy set-up and the technology sorted, I'm absolutely loving it.

And it turns out participants are loving it too, and giving fabulous feedback. Participants are now taking the course from all over Ireland, and Europe. (Italy, Spain, Wales, England ... to name a few !!! )

An interesting development is the Diaspora that are signing up to take the course. Hearing the Irish accent of fellow participants, and listening to the guided meditations, is having a soothing effect all of it own !

The MBSR course (Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Course) is highly experiential. Now with my studio space sorted, I'm able to guide participants through all the Meditations, Body practices, learning modules and inquiry sessions, with great ease.

And now also, with the "Personal Interactive Online Dashboard" which I designed, for each participant taking the course, every aspect of teaching and learning is covered in depth.

With the aid of the "Interactive Dashboard", Participants can now revisit and recap on all modules mid-week. With access to over 100 purpose made, instructor led videos, guided meditation audios, home practice log sheets, exercise worksheets, support reading, and much more. It makes the learning experience highly supported and comprehensive.

If you or anyone you know, are suffering from Chronic Stress, Overwhelm, Burnout, or Anxiety, and want to learn stress reduction skills, that are highly effective, then perhaps you, or they, may be interested, in taking this world recognise, Gold Standard Mindfulness Stress Reduction Course, recommended by Doctors and counsellors worldwide.

I would be absolutely honoured to guide you through this 8 week course, and support you on your journey, to more peace of mind, self compassion, and inner resilience.

Una
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(Professional Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Instructor)

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Perhaps visit the website for more Information:
👉https://mindfulnessandcreativity.ie/mbsr-online-live-course-8-week/

07/12/2022

❤ COMPASSION is at the Heart of MINDFULNESS MEDITATION
Every time we allow ourselves to practice meditating mindfully, we build our inner capacity to hold ourselves in compassionate regard. We learn to notice how much our internal critic turns up during the day, the words it uses, the feelings it triggers and the sensations that are stimulated in the body as a result. With practice, we build the internal muscles to be able to "Notice" and "Be with" ourselves as this plays out.

Through Mindfulness meditation, we build the capacity to support ourselves with kindness and compassion, no matter what the internal critic will try and have us believe. We learn to support ourselves, as we return our attention to the freshness and newness of the present moment..... Moment by moment by moment.

Una

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Next LIVE Online Group MBSR (Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Course) starts 18th Jan 2023. (Limited places) Places are now booking.

👉 MORE INFORMATION: https://mindfulnessandcreativity.ie/online-course/

04/12/2022

❤ Psychological resources such as gratitude help us to cope with adversity and maintain well-being. These resources must largely be acquired, and studies have identified environmental and behavioral factors of this learning. See below for some very interesting research on how we can be active agents in this process.

Dr. Rick Hanson and his colleagues summarise this approach through what they call the "HEAL process", which involves: Having a good experience, Enriching it, Absorbing it, and Linking it to related "negative material" to keep the positive feelings front and centre when stress arises.

LINK:
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ucb-researchers-new-brain-training-promises-lasting-happiness-in-times-of-trouble-301688817.html

/PRNewswire/ -- At a time when so many feel pushed around by powerful forces, such as a rocky economy or the global COVID-19 pandemic, Dr Rick Hanson from UC...

27/11/2022

❤️POWERFUL READING !!!
Times of chaos and challenge can be the most spiritually powerful… if we are brave enough to rest in their space of uncertainty. Pema Chödrön describes three ways to use our problems as the path to awakening and joy: go to the places that scare you, use poison as medicine, and regard what arises as awakened energy.
"Three Methods for Working With Chaos", an article from Lion's Roar Magazine. This is a great excerpt from Pema's book "When Things Fall Apart".

LINK TO ARTICLE: https://www.lionsroar.com/pema-chodrons-three-methods-for-working-with-chaos/

23/11/2022

❤️NEW STUDY FINDS MBSR as effective as LEXAPRO (anxiety Drug)

For the first time, scientists compared patients who took an intensive eight-week mindfulness meditation program (MBSR) to patients who took escitalopram, the generic name of the widely-prescribed and well-studied anxiety drug Lexapro. They found that both interventions worked equally well in reducing debilitating anxiety symptoms.

Researchers took 276 adults diagnosed with untreated anxiety disorders such as generalized anxiety, panic disorder, or social anxiety, and split them into two randomized groups. One group received a 10 to 20 mg daily dose of Lexapro – a standard beginning dose.

The other half was assigned to weekly two-and-a-half hour mindfulness classes at a local clinic — using an approach called Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction — plus 45 minutes of daily meditation homework for eight weeks, as well as a day-long retreat around week five or six.

Side effects of escitalopram include suicidal thoughts in extreme cases, but more commonly diarrhea, loss of sexual desire or ability, nausea, and constipation.
👉UPCOMING MBSR COURSE:
If you would like to take the Gold Standard MBSR course, the next LIVE Online course is now taking bookings.

👉For More Information GO TO:
https://mindfulnessandcreativity.ie/online-course/
👉RESEARCH STUDY
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/11/09/1135211525/anxiety-medication-meditation-lexapro

Researchers compared a practice of daily mindfulness meditation to taking Lexapro to control anxiety symptoms. The meditators got equivalent relief, without the side effects.

23/11/2022

❤ What is MBSR Mindfulness Training? (Simply Explained)
If you are curios about this World recognised Gold Standard Mindfulness course, and how it helps reduce stress, perhaps this simple explanation might help 😉

🔹 MBSR= (Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction)

🔹 MBSR Mindfulness Training teaches powerful de-stressing skills

🔹 When skillfully taught, practiced, and applied, it builds our internal capacity to "Be with" the stress triggers in our lives.

🔹 It helps us move from reacting automatically when triggered,

to responding mindfully.

🔹 It increases the breathing space around our experience of Stress

🔹 It provides us with a strong daily practice, where we learn to become increasingly compassionate with ourselves, as we navigate the daily stressors in our lives.





For more Information go to: https://mindfulnessandcreativity.ie/online-course/

23/11/2022

❤️ Well worth a read, some valuable wisdom, based on science and courageous embodiment.

Una
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Hug the monkey inside yourself helps satisfy an innate human need for connection can remedy old pain and provides that fundamental human sustenance: love.