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Mindfulness

Here you’ll find articles on mindfulness research and the effectiveness of the Mindfulness X protocol, redirecting your the attention to the current moment.

DBT Made Simple|Calming the Emotional Storm

20 DBT Worksheets and Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills

Dialectical Behavior Therapy is an interestingly named treatment. If you’re as lost as I was when I first heard the term, then you’ve come to [...]

The History and Origins Mindfulness – PositivePsychology.com

Here at PositivePsychology.com, we have been discussing several different aspects of mindfulness. We explored various ways to learn about mindfulness, practice it, and even study [...]

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23 Amazing Health Benefits of Mindfulness for Body and Brain

If you’ve been following this blog, you know that there are countless ways to apply mindfulness in your everyday life. You have probably also noticed [...]

Learning ACT

How Does Acceptance And Commitment Therapy (ACT) Work?

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages people to embrace their thoughts and feelings rather than fighting or feeling guilty for them. It may seem confusing at [...]

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50 Best Mindfulness Books (Reviews + PDF’s)

Mindfulness books are exploding in popularity in Western culture. Countless resources are now available on the topic, and it can be hard to know where [...]

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Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction: The Ultimate MBSR Guide

We all deal with stress on a daily basis, whether we’re old or young, large or small, lofty thinkers or practical doers. Even the most [...]

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Top 12 Apps For Meditation and Mindfulness (+ Reviews)

As smartphones become more and more ubiquitous in today’s world, questions arise as to how they affect mindfulness. It’s clear that used compulsively or constantly, [...]

32 Mindfulness Trainings & Certifications for Professionals

Mindfulness interventions, like positive psychology itself, are focused on bettering peoples’ lives no matter what their situations are. As positive psychology is interested in increasing [...]

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Measuring Mindfulness: 11 Assessments, Scales & Surveys

Mindfulness has been a popular topic at PositivePsychology.com, with frequent pieces on what mindfulness is, how it has been incorporated into therapy, and ways to [...]

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What Is MBCT? + 28 Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy Tools

The thoughts, feelings, and emotions that we experience every day shape the nature of our reality. Our life is what our thoughts make it. Marcus [...]

3 Mindfulness Exercises Pack (PDF)