Mindfulness, Depression and Anxiety
The Mental Health Foundation in the UK has developed a Be Mindful webpage that is an excellent resource for information about the benefits of mindfulness. The following quote is from their webpage:
How you handle the way you feel plays a big part your mental health. In difficult times, it is not unusual to focus solely on negative thoughts and feelings and become consumed by them.
Mindfulness helps you change the way they think, feel and act. It helps you to break free from a downward spiral of negative thought and action, and make positive choices that support your wellbeing.
Mindfulness can help with recurrent depression, anxiety and panic, and other issues including stress, self-esteem and chronic pain.
In the video below, also from the Be Mindful webpage, a physician talks about his experience with mindfulness meditation, how mindfulness helps people deal with mental health issues such as depression and anxiety, and the evidence supporting the use of mindfulness in therapy.
Below are some more videos from the Be Mindful webpage describing four people’s experiences with mindfulness and how mindfulness has helped them deal with their depression and anxiety.
In the video below, Kathy Andrews talks about how she found mindfulness to be the piece that was missing from other kinds of therapy.
In the next video, Ruby Wax talks about how mindfulness helps her cool down when she is feeling pressured or anxious. “Mindfulness is by far the best tool I have to calm me down and take the heat out of my thoughts and feelings.”
In the last video, Ed Halliwell talks about his experience of mindfulness and how it helped him to slow down and pay attention when he was struggling to cope with depression.
I’m a Toronto therapist and counsellor incorporating traditional and mindfulness-based approaches to therapy to help people overcome issues such as depression, anxiety, stress and low self-esteem.
For more information about how you could benefit from mindfulness-based therapy, visit my mindfulness therapy webpage. To make an appointment for counselling or therapy in Toronto, please call me at 416-516-6024 or email greg@gregdorter.com.
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