Our Centre has a specialized mindfulness clinic offering mindfulness based therapies in udaipur to people of all ages.
We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us, that they may see, it may be, their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer, perhaps even with a fiercer life because of our quiet.
Mindfulness is not new. It is a part of what makes us human, i.e., the capacity to be fully conscious and aware. Mindfulness is an elusive, yet central, aspect of the 2,500-year-old tradition of Buddhist psychology. Kabat-Zinn (2003), defines mindfulness as a process of ‘paying attention on purpose, in the present moment, and non- judgmentally to the unfolding of experience moment by moment’. Others define mindfulness as a multi-component construct; including observing, describing, accepting whatever one is experiencing without judgment and acting with awareness (Baer, Smith & Allen, 2004).
Where Mindfulness from?
Mindfulness, as used in ancient texts, is an English translation of the Pali word, sati, which connotes awareness, attention, and remembering. It has its roots in Buddhism has given rise to an extraordinarily complex body of eastern body of teachings as it has diversified over 2500 years.
Practicing Mindfulness
A person’s experience of time tends to be subjective and heavily influenced by their emotional state. Fears and insecurities about the past and the future can make it difficult to fully appreciate the present. The key is learning how to pay attention.
Mindfulness can take place through meditation sessions or smaller moments throughout the day. To cultivate a state of mindfulness, you can begin by sitting down and taking deep breaths. Focus on each breath and the sensations of the moment, such as sounds, scents, the temperature, and the feeling of air passing in and out of the body.
Shift your attention, then, to the thoughts and emotions that you’re experiencing. Allow each thought to exist without judging it or ascribing negativity to it. Sit with those thoughts. The experience may evoke a strong emotional reaction. Exploring that response can be an opportunity to address or resolve underlying challenges.
To cultivate awareness, observe your thoughts and emotions and explore why those specific ideas might be surfacing. To cultivate acceptance, avoid judging or pushing away unpleasant thoughts. Emotions are natural and everyone has them—acknowledging them can help you understand yourself better and move forward.
Current Status of Mindfulness: Progress to a Therapeutic Technique
Mindfulness, from a therapeutic, secular perspective is a conscious awareness of our present moment with a specific attention and attitude stance. In psychotherapy literature, mindfulness has
been referred to as both specific treatment method (set of techniques) and a psychological process (Hayes & Wilson, 2003). Mindfulness based interventions involves intentionally bringing one’s attention to the internal and external experiences occurring in the present moment, and is often taught through a variety of cognitive, behavioral, emotional, interpersonal, experiential and
meditation practices. Mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs), uses therapeutic approaches grounded in mindfulness, to promote the practice as an important part of good physical and mental
health.
Research Evidence on Application of Mindfulness Based Therapies for Psychological Issues and Treating Disorders.
In the last 20 years, there has been a dramatic increase in clinical interventions that use meditation skills, especially in the forms of mindfulness based clinical interventions (MBIs). This number has
certainly significantly increased today. The Oxford Centre of mindfulness offers in-depth data on scientific effectiveness and efficacy of MBIs in a range of clinical and nonclinical conditions.
Benefits of Mindfulness therapies
Among the theorized benefits of mindfulness are improvements in self-control, objectivity, affect tolerance, enhanced flexibility, equanimity, improved concentration and mental clarity. Other positive effects include: –
- Mental health: Mindfulness can help you:
- Understand your emotions: You can learn to observe your thoughts and emotions without getting caught up in them.
- Cope with difficult thoughts: You can learn to stand back from your thoughts and see their patterns.
- Reduce stress, anxiety and depression: Mindfulness-based treatments can help reduce anxiety and depression.
- Improve focus: Mindfulness can help you stay focused longer and improve your attention span.
- Improve sleep: Mindfulness can help you fall asleep faster and improve the quality of your sleep.
- Reduce pain: Mindfulness can help reduce pain and boost emotion regulation.
- Lower blood pressure: Regular meditation can help lower your blood pressure over time.
- Improve memory: Mindfulness can help improve your memory and mental clarity.
- Improve relationships: Mindfulness can help you improve your relationships.
- Improve quality of life: Mindfulness can help improve your quality of life for many chronic illnesses.
- Improve cognitive abilities: Mindfulness can help you think quickly and adapt to changing information.
Mindfulness for Children
When we teach mindfulness to kids, we give them the tools they need to build confidence, cope with stress, and relate to uncomfortable or challenging moments. The earlier we do so in their young lives, the greater the opportunity to help them cultivate resilience and develop and refine their mindfulness practice as they mature.
Teaching mindfulness to kids can also help shape three critical skills developed in early childhood: paying attention and remembering information, shifting back and forth between tasks, and behaving appropriately with others. These abilities are known as executive functions and they are essential for more advanced tasks like planning, reasoning, problem-solving, and positive social relationships.
Studies show that the benefits of mindfulness for kids may include:
1. Increased focus, attention, self-control, classroom participation, compassion.
2. Improved academic performance, ability to resolve conflict, overall well-being.
3. Decreased levels of stress, depression, anxiety, disruptive behavior.
Mindfulness for Teenagers
Being a teen is stressful! Whether it’s school, friends, or dating, the teen years are full of difficult changes-both mentally and physically. If you’re like many teens, you may have difficulty dealing with stress in effective ways. You aren’t alone, and there are things you can do to stay calm, no matter how stressful life becomes. All you need to do is stop, breathe, and be mindful and aware in the present moment.
Mindfulness program in teenage can help you deal with stress in healthy ways, improve communication, and reduce conflicts with family and friends.
Mindfulness-based techniques help keep stress from getting the best of you. Mindfulness therapies can to help you handle life’s toughest situations— whether it’s taking a test at school, dealing with parents, or navigating drama with friends. Our doctors show you how to stay cool, calm, and collected, no matter what life throws your way.
If you’re ready to uncover your own inner strength and resilience through mindful awareness and take charge of your life, then do book an appointment with our team of child psychologist experts.
Mindfulness Based Intervention Available at CGC, Udaipur.
We at CGC are trained & certified mindfulness therapists and deliver all core types of MBIs.
- Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR): MBSR can often help people address stress, chronic pain related medical conditions, hypertension, cancer, fibromyalgia, endocrinal issues, stress, burnout , anxiety, depression, and other chronic issues.
- Mindfulness based cognitive therapy (MBCT): MBCT often forms part of the approach to treatment of recurrent depression, anxiety, psychosis, eating and food issues, bipolar, panic attacks, attention deficit hyperactivity, infertility, childbirth, parenting and posttraumatic stress, among others.
- Dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT): DBT is a weekly two-hour group skills-training program that was originally developed to treat borderline personality disorder. This program has subsequently been used for numerous other conditions, including emotional disorders. DBT today is used primarily in the treatment of suicidal ideation, impulsivity, emotional unstability, self-harm, substance dependence, eating and food issues, depression, and PTSD.
- Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT): ACT uses acceptance and mindfulness strategies to develop committed behavior change by increasing psychological flexibility. ACT is an approach often used in the treatment of anxiety, depression, substance dependence, chronic pain, psychosis, and cancer.
- Emotion-Focused Mindfulness Therapy (EFMT): It is a new psychological approach to addressing internal conflicts like harsh self criticism and unfinished business with people who have hurt us.
Our Clinical Research and publications on MBIs:
We are currently involved in the following researches :
1. Effectiveness of modified mindfulness based cognitive therapy in distressed couples with infertility, undergoing intra-uterine insemination. (CTRI/2015/07/005973).
2. Psychiatric morbidity, perceived distress, coping and need for psychological intervention, in couples with infertility, undergoing assisted reproductive treatments -A Clinic Based study. (CTRI/2016/02/006649).
3. Effectiveness of Mindfulness based intervention in caregivers of children and adolescents with Autism : A Systematic Review (Reg in Prospero with study ID : CRD42018107782).
Past Publications:
1. Patel, A., Dinesh, N., Sharma, P. S. V. N., Kumar, P., & Binu, V. S. (2018). Outcomes of structured psychotherapy for emotional adjustment in a childless couple diagnosed with recurrent pregnancy loss: A unique investigation. Journal of human reproductive sciences,
11(2), 202-207
2. Patel, A., Sharma, P. S. V. N., & Kumar, P. (2020). Application of mindfulness-based psychological interventions in infertility. Journal of Human Reproductive Sciences, 13(1),
3. Neda Haseeb Khan, Mohammad Ghazi Shahnawaz, Ansha Patel, Poonam Kashyap & Chandra Bhushan Singh (2023): Resilience among involuntarily childless couples and individuals undergoing infertility treatment: a systematic review, Human Fertility, doi :10.1080/14647273.2023.2219400.
4. Patel, A., Sharma, P. S. V. N., Kumar, P. (2018). Role of Mental Health Practitioner in Infertility Clinics: A Review on past, present and future. Journal of human reproductive sciences. 11(3): 219–228.
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