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Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)

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The 8-week secular mindfulness program that seeded the field: weekly group sessions, a day-long retreat, and daily home practice built on three core forms — body scan, sitting meditation, mindful hatha yoga. Among the most researched inner-development interventions in existence.

mindfulness.sph.brown.edu — Jon Kabat-Zinn (1979, UMass Medical School); teacher training today via Brown University Mindfulness Center & Global Mindfulness Collaborative

Source link checked 29 Aug 2026 — unchanged since we recorded it on 28 Aug 2026

Tools from this source (4)

Body Scan Meditation

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A guided practice of moving attention slowly and systematically through the body, noticing sensation without trying to change it. Usually done lying down with audio guidance, 20…

Mindful Pause (Informal Practice)

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The informal half of mindfulness training: bringing awareness deliberately into everyday activities — pausing before responding where one would otherwise act through habit or im…

Mountain Meditation

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A guided visualization of yourself as a mountain: grounded, dignified, unmoved in essence while weather and seasons — moods, pressures, crises — pass across your slopes. A stabi…

Sitting Meditation (Breath-Anchored)

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The core formal mindfulness practice: sitting upright, resting attention on a chosen anchor — usually the breath — and each time the mind wanders, gently returning it, without j…

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