Welcome to Miami Mindfulness
Learn How to Reduce Stress-Related Physical and Psychological Symptoms Through the Art of Meditation, Mindful Stretching, and the Practice of Mindfulness.
Join us at The Sanctuary for the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Program, a clinical, systematic, user-friendly approach to developing improved awareness and well-being.
Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way:
on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally.
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
Mindfulness or Insight Meditation
Mindfulness or Insight Meditation (also known as vipassana) improves your health in all aspects of life: physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. It teaches you how to live life wisely and fully. It helps you to discover who you are at the deepest level, to find your truth and your voice. Mindfulness is an inner learning about how to approach life’s challenges and how to work with difficult emotions in healthy ways rather than trying to escape them. You learn that you can choose to “respond” to life rather than to “react” automatically in unhealthy ways. With practice you will come to experience greater awareness, deeper relaxation, renewed focus, self-acceptance, compassion, and a true sense of balance.
Meditation changes the physiology of the brain. It increases activity in those regions of the brain that are associated with cardiovascular control, learning and memory, concentration, and emotion.
To understand meditation, imagine yourself sitting on the beach in front of the ocean, watching it, listening to it, learning from it, and then using it to guide you in life.
Consider that when your mind is agitated, it is like muddy water. You can’t see through muddy water very well. But if you allow the silt to settle to the bottom, the water becomes clear and you can see with clarity. It is meditation that allows the cloudiness, the confusion, the disturbance of the mind to settle, so that you can see clearly.
If you think you cannot meditate, know that anyone can learn if taught systematically. If you can breathe, you can meditate.
Mindfulness Meditation Offers You a Better Life by:
- Improving the overall quality of your life
- Teaching you how to manage and reduce stress
- Optimizing your health and wellbeing
- Renewing your energy and vitality
- Accessing your powerful inner resources for healing and coping
- Improving your focus and concentration
- Giving you clarity of mind
- Reducing your anxiety and worry
- Decreasing your anger and hostility
- Increasing self-awareness and self-acceptance
- Developing a friendly compassion or lovingkindness for yourself and others
- Cultivating a greater sense of spirituality