Learn the secrets for effective motivation
Do you feel that you are not getting the rewards in life you deserve?
Do you wish to transform your life to be more fulfilled?
Learn the simple secrets to living a more fulfilling life
Learn the leading secrets of self empowerment!
Learn the holy grail of mind and behavior transformation!
This is an effective, sustainable program for transformational change to live your highest values.
Apply these techniques in the business world with astounding effects.
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy
$800 - Group class
$1500 - Personal course
- 8 sessions + 1 silent day retreat
- Group or personal lessons
Complete 8-wk MBCT program as designed by Oxford Mindfulness Centre.
How does Mindfulness help?
What is mindfulness? It’s the awareness that arises out of paying attention in a particular way. We train our muscles of attention. The landscape of attention is imbued with certain qualities like kindliness, patience, equanimity, curiosity. This can be used to treat people with very, very difficult problems. People with great difficulty living with themselves and with other people. It helps people with physical health problems and mental health problems as well. Mindfulness can help people in chronic physical pain and depression in that it makes their suffering easier to bear. We can train the mind to first become aware and then work with that. The mental landscape of people who suffer from depression is negative thinking. To train someone with depression to identify the start of the downward spiral and to distance themselves from “wrecking ball thoughts”. Mindfulness training allows us not to get caught up in destructive thoughts. Mental training can lead to functional and structural changes in the brain. In the same way, that physical training can make physical changes in the body.
What is MBCT?
Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy is a type of psychotherapy that involves a combination of cognitive therapy, meditation, and cultivating a present-oriented, non-judgemental attitude called “mindfulness”
In a study published by The Lancet in July 2015, 424 patients with severe depression were divided into 2 groups. One group was given medication as treatment and the other half was treated with MBCT but no medication. The half that was given the MBCT therapy reported positive outcomes on par with those who have been treated with anti-depressive medication
You can access this study here: https://bit.ly/32R3Fux
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy or MBCT As designed by Oxford Mindfulness Centre.
MBCT helps you recognize and reassess your patterns of negative thoughts and replace them with positive thoughts that more closely reflect reality. This approach helps people review their thoughts without getting caught up in what could have been or might occur in the future. MBCT encourages clarity of thought and provides you the tools needed to more easily let go of negative thoughts instead of letting them feed your depression.
MBCT operates on the theory that if you have a history of depression and become distressed, you are more likely to indulge in those automatic cognitive processes that triggered depression in the past.
When bad things happen, we catch ourselves with thoughts such as “I’m no good.” “I’m a total failure,” “or nothing ever goes my way.” Our feelings quickly follow what we are thinking and negative thoughts like these can quickly send us spiraling down into depression. To manage our emotions, we must stop those negative thoughts and replace them with more positive, truthful ones. By nipping these thoughts in the bud, we can sometimes halt depression before it starts.
Cognitive Therapy is directed at faulty thought patterns that send us into depression. It helps us to identify self-sabotaging thought patterns and reframe the incidents in our minds to more hopeful and helpful thinking.
As humans we tend to:
Remember traumatic experiences better than positive ones.
Recall insults better than praise
React more strongly to negative stimuli
Think about negative things more frequently than positive ones
Respond more strongly to negative events than to equally positive ones. This is known as negativity bias. The brain operates this way as a means to keep us safe.
Neuroscientific evidence shows that the brain’s response to negative stimuli elicits a larger brain response than positive ones. Because negative information causes a surge in activity, in a critical processing area of the brain, our behaviors and attitudes tend to be shaped more powerfully by bad news, bad experiences, and information and respond more strongly to negative events than to equally positive ones.
Some of the everyday areas where you might feel the effects of this bias include your relationships, decision-making, and your perception of people.
Research has shown that when making decisions, people consistently place greater weight on negative aspects of an event than they do on positive ones. This tendency to overemphasize the negative can have an impact on the choices that people make and the risks that they are willing to take.
People often fear the consequences of the negative outcome more than they desire the potential positive gains, even when the two possibilities are the same.
The negativity bias can take a toll on your mental health, causing you to:
- Dwell on dark thoughts.
- Hurt your relationships with loved ones.
- Make it difficult to maintain an optimistic outlook on life.
To stop those thoughts whenever they begin, instead of fixating on past mistakes that cannot be changed, consider what you have learned and how you might apply that in the future.
MBCT helps you to “Reframe the Situation”
MBCT helps you reframe negative thoughts. How you talk to yourself about events, experiences, and people plays a large role in shaping how you interpret events. When you find yourself negatively interpreting something, or only focusing on bad aspects of the situation, look for ways to reframe the events in a more positive slant. It means refocusing the lens so that you give a fair and thoughtful equal weight to good events.
In MBCT we help you establish new Patterns
The process of continuously thinking about the same thoughts, which tend to be dark or sad is called rumination. The habit of rumination can be dangerous to your mental health. It can prolong or intensify depression as well as impair your ability to think and process emotions. To break this habit of ruminating on things look for positive activities to lift out of your negative mindset.
When you find yourself ruminating on things, looking for a positive activity to lift you out of your negative mindset. If you find yourself mentally reviewing some unpleasant event or outcome, consciously try to redirect your attention elsewhere and engage in an activity that brings you joy.
One of the top five regrets of dying as written by Palliative Carer Bronnie Ware is “I wish I had let myself be happier”
In MBCT we reset your mental filter
Do you wish to see your world with possibility rather than pessimism? Do you wish to enjoy your present instead of brooding and ruminating about the traumas of the past and the uncertainties of the future? The primary goal of MBCT is to help patients with chronic depression learn how to avoid relapses by not engaging in those automatic thought patterns that perpetuate and worsen depression. The study in the lancet referenced above shows that MBCT can help treat severe depression without medication.
Live your life authentically and live a life without regret. Deal with challenges and problems mindfully and positively. Invest in this life-changing program which can alter the trajectory of your life and help you live the best life possible.