Abstract
This chapter presents an overview of applications of the mindfulness practice examined in Chap. 4. Beginning with the currently most widely influential use of the practice in MBCT/MBSR courses, I go on to describe a typical 8 week programme in this sphere before discussing evidence about the effectiveness of these approaches in the treatment of anxiety and depression. The value of mindfulness in connection with older people – particularly the work of Langer (Mindfulness. Addison Wesley Publishing Co., New York, 1989; On becoming an artist: reinventing yourself through mindful creativity. Ballantine Books, New York, 2005) in this field – is also examined, in addition to a survey of the links between mindfulness and the ‘socially engaged’ movements that have emerged in recent times.
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I am especially indebted to Josephine Lynch – a long-standing mindfulness practitioner and teacher of MBSR/MBCT courses in Dublin, Ireland (see www.mindfulness.ie website for more information) – who provided access to the standard material for the 8-week courses and kindly gave much of her time in discussing all aspects of the work with me. This book is dedicated to her.
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For a compelling and intensely personal account of how mindfulness meditation transformed the health and well-being of the novelist Tim Parks – initially a total sceptic about alternative health treatments and anything resembling New Age therapies – see his recently published account of the long journey (Parks 2010).
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Hyland, T. (2011). Applications of Mindfulness. In: Mindfulness and Learning. Lifelong Learning Book Series, vol 17. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1911-8_5
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