{"id":462,"date":"2018-02-17T15:04:22","date_gmt":"2018-02-17T04:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/?p=462"},"modified":"2018-02-17T15:04:22","modified_gmt":"2018-02-17T04:34:22","slug":"free-introduction-mindfulness-based-stress-reduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/2018\/02\/17\/free-introduction-mindfulness-based-stress-reduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Introduction to Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Burke from <a href=\"https:\/\/adelaidepsychologyandco.com.au\/\">Adelaide Psychology &amp; Co<\/a> is running a &#8220;<span class=\"_4n-j _3cht fsl\">relaxed 1 hour introduction to mindfulness-based skills and tools that will help you to cope with life&#8217;s challenges, reduce your stress, and improve your quality of life<\/span>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mindfulness-based_stress_reduction\">Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction<\/a> (MBSR) was developed by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jon_Kabat-Zinn\">this fellow<\/a> in the 70&#8217;s. It was designed to help individuals with difficult to treat health conditions adapt better to their illness. It has been the subject of a considerable amount of research over the past 20 years, which shows it can help reduce anxiety and depression.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst MBSR has its origins in Eastern religious and spiritual teachings, the program itself is secular.<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer is running these sessions monthly for the whole of 2018, so if you don&#8217;t get into the first one, you can attend later in the year.<\/p>\n<p>To register your interest visit &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/175761499604468\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/175761499604468<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can also call Adelaide Psychology &amp; Co on 7120 2809 or email them on reception@adelaidepsychologyandco.com.au<\/p>\n<p>So take a deep breath, get yourself in the moment, notice your surroundings and then RSVP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Jennifer Burke from Adelaide Psychology &amp; Co is running a &#8220;relaxed 1 hour introduction to mindfulness-based skills and tools that will help you to cope [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":492,"featured_media":463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,87,23,34,31,20],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-external-health-and-mental-health-services","category-mental-health","category-participate","category-psychological-tools","category-treatment-options","tag-mindfulness"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/492"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-health-and-well-being\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}