Menlha provides training in mindfulness, healing meditation, MBCT and MBSR. Menlha's faculty are experienced meditators in mindfulness and Buddhist meditation healing practices. Menlha offers training and support services to the following groups:

• individuals
• psychologists and psychiatric workers
• social and hospital workers

What is mindfulness?

Mindfulness meditation has been practiced for over 2,500 years in the Buddhist and other Eastern traditions. Mindfulness practice cultivates wisdom, awareness, insight and compassion. A mindfulness practioner trains the mind to let go of attachment, desire and aversion to thoughts, emotions, sensations, form and consciousness as they arise in response to internal or external events. The meditator practices non-attachment, watching the arising and passing away of each moment, until there is no internal and no external: no self or other than self. Enlightenment.
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What is MBCT?

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), developed in 1991, combines Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) for the treatment of depression and prevention of a recurrence. MBCT is seen as a promising, cost-effective means to help patients overcome depression and avert future episodes of depression. The effectiveness and benefits of MBCT are also being studied in other patient groups, such as a rehabilitation program for patients with Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI).
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What is MBSR?

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) uses mindfulness meditation to help people with a number of physical and mental illnesses, such as:

• chronic pain
• cancer
• heart disease
• fibromyalgia
• eating disorders
• psoriasis
• depression
• anxiety and panic disorders.

The biological consequences of MBSR are improved emotional health and physical health, since a reduction in stress levels results in both medical and psychological improvements to one's well being.
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