Are You Stressed?
We can help! The Center for Mindfulness at Lehigh Valley Health Network is a collaborative effort of family medicine and psychiatry. Our center is modeled after the work of Jon Kabat-Zinn and colleages at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center’s Center for Mindfulness, a groundbreaking program that has helped tens of thousands of patients to manage pain, anxiety, chronic illness and everyday stress more effectively.
Our program creates a supportive and therapeutic environment in which you will learn:
- Meditation
- Deep relaxation techniques
- How to recognize and modify your signs of stress
- How thoughts help or hinder stress management
- How to communicate more effectively
- How to prioritize self-care and build self-confidence
These skills will help you if you suffer from conditions such as:
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If you’re suffering from the effects of long-term stress, or if you are seeking a means to enhance feelings of well-being—our Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction program may help.
Our Programs
Mindfulness-Based Stress ReductionChange your relationship with stress, chronic pain or illness through mindful movement, meditation and group discussion and support. You’ll learn how to have moment-to-moment awareness of the present, so you can avoid being on "automatic pilot" and focused on the past or anxiously awaiting the future. This awareness of the present can help you respond rather than react to situations and cultivate a greater sense of calm and well-being. All participants receive a CD with meditation practices and mindful movement exercises, and are invited to a half-day Saturday retreat.
Mindfulness-Based Childbirth
Labor and delivery can be the most challenging part of pregnancy. You and your partner will learn how to use mindfulness – a moment-to-moment awareness – to work with the childbirth experience and tap into your inner reservoirs of strength and confidence. The workshop goes hand-in-hand with most childbirth education classes and is a great step toward learning mindful parenting, too. All participants receive a free CD with mindfulness exercises.
Labor and delivery can be the most challenging part of pregnancy. You and your partner will learn how to use mindfulness – a moment-to-moment awareness – to work with the childbirth experience and tap into your inner reservoirs of strength and confidence. The workshop goes hand-in-hand with most childbirth education classes and is a great step toward learning mindful parenting, too. All participants receive a free CD with mindfulness exercises.
This page last updated 1/10/09 12:25 PM
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