Sensory Awareness Mindfulness Training in Coaching: Accepting Life’s Challenges
Journal of Rational-Emotive & Cognitive-Behavior Therapy
Short Title:
Sensory Awareness Mindfulness Training in Coaching
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
2008/03//
Pages:
30 - 37
Sources ID:
65586
Collection:
Mindfulness-Based Interventions for Depression
Visibility:
Public (group default)
Abstract:
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Sensory Awareness Mindfulness Training is a new set of skills to help clients approach a better life/work equilibrium by balancing cognitive and emotional brain activities. This is achieved through regular connection with one’s senses and focusing non-judgementally on the ‘here and now’ experience of life. The exercises are neither difficult to teach nor to learn; it is, however, necessary for the practitioner and student to enter into a regular routine of implementation for change to occur. Mindfulness is, in a nutshell, a way of being, a new life-style. Research shows that mindfulness interventions have resulted in significant improvements in a range of conditions such as anxiety, depression, stress disorders, chronic pain, psoriasis and relapse prevention, to mention but a few. This article gives a brief overview of using mindfulness interventions in the arena of coaching. It also focuses and describes one small pilot project where Sensory Awareness Mindfulness Training is applied and evaluated.