Technique

Mindfulness meditation

Guided practice of resting attention on breath, body or the present moment.

From Zindel Segal · Mark Williams · John Teasdale · Jon Kabat-Zinn

Where it lives

Therapies that use it

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy Blends cognitive therapy with mindfulness so you relate to thoughts and moods differently — and stop the relapse spiral. Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Uses meditation and body awareness to change your relationship to stress, pain, and difficult feeling.

Who shaped it

The thinkers behind it

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy Zindel Segal Brought mindfulness into cognitive therapy to stop relapse.

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy Mark Williams Oxford psychologist who turned mindfulness toward depression.

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy John Teasdale Explained how mindfulness blocks depression relapse.

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Jon Kabat-Zinn Secularized meditation into mainstream medicine.

From method to habit

Make Mindfulness meditation a few honest minutes a day.

Psipas turns the simplest of these techniques into a daily ritual — one question, one answer, a picture that grows.

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