Hi!    
 
Why not a gift of mindfulness to yourself, or someone you care about?
 
I’m already into the holidays…. feeling happy, but also rushed, frustrated, anything but serene.  I’m stopping, pausing to breathe, a lot.  How about you?   Why not stop right now, pause briefly, and take a breath or two.  
I teach mindfulness to people who want to have a different relation to their feelings of depression or anxiety. The work is called Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy, or MBCT. It runs 8 weeks, in mid-town, and begins February 1.  This post and the post after it give you some of the details, and from there you can also go to my website, www.DonaldFleck.com.
 
I’ve priced this group way below the current cost of $475. For this winter, the group only costs $240.  That’s recession pricing.  The group will be somewhat larger, but the teachings will be the same.
 
The research for MBCT continues to be very strong, Depression relapse rates are as much as 50% lower after the workshops.  People can maintain their meds or not, it doesn’t matter. If you want to review the academic research, just visit PubMed.gov.
 
Other research is remarkable: One study found that trying positive self-talk when people really don’t believe what they’re telling themselves  can actually make people worse. Sorry Norman Vincent Peale!  Mindfulness, in contrast, teaches people healthy ways of being with all of their experience, both the liked and the unliked.  The research, published in the journal Psychological Science, was discussed and related to mindfulness in a Time Magazine article this summer.
 
A decade ago Dean Ornish showed that people could avoid heart by-pass surgery if they got serious about meditation, exercise and yoga? The results were great, but most Americans found it too hard to carry out the regimen. The operation was easier. (And more profitable.)  Well, now there’s more research showing that simply meditating, without the other elements, can reduce heart attacks. This was discussed in The New York Times last month.
 
I hope I don’t sound too much like a proselytizer.  You’ll understand that mindfulness isn’t for everyone.  But for the right people, in the right situations, it can be really helpful.
 
I’m looking forward to hearing from you,
 
Take good care, 
 
Donald
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