Mindfulness Meditation, Counselling And Psychotherapy Can Support Each Other
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Published on 01/25/2010
Discover how Mindfulness Meditation has enormous value for counselling or psychotherapy, even though the aims often differ.
There are over four hundred varying types of counselling methodologies. Maybe there are about as many varying types of meditation practice. However the purposes of attending counselling can differ markedly from developing a meditation practice.
The purpose of meditation is rarely solely stress management, although stress reduction and deeper relaxation often ensue. No. The aim is usually something spiritual, or more general. Whereas attending counselling normally arises from a desire or need for adjustment to some kind of life stress, or internal or relationship trouble.
However there has been a rise in the validation and use of mindfulness based approaches in psychotherapy in rcent years. Mindfulness therapy involves intentionally attending to thoughts, feelings, body sensations and behaviour from a secure, calm and accepting headspace.
While commonly associated with mindfulness meditation, mindfulness therapy does not aim to completely eradicate suffering as some forms of mindfulness meditation claim possible. Rather mindfulness therapy seek to assist people to cope with stresses very differently to applying psychological techniques or strategies, and thus, the philosophy of mindfulness therapy is probably more of a meta therapeutic model than a method in it's own right.
Also fairly recently there seems to be a surge in the interest of attachment based disorders, i.e. insecure attachment styles arising from a history of unsatisfactory caregiving, resulting in anxious avoidant, anxious ambivallent or anxious dismissive attachment. Compared with secure atatchment, insecure counterparts form templates for future adult relationships and reduce resilliency against stress.
Thus, another aim of counselling and psychotherapy is to change an insecure attachment style to a secure complex. One incredibly effective way to expedite this aim is to incorporate mindfulness therapy into practice. Why. Possibly because self reflection, meta cognitive awareness and mindfulness have been correlated with a secure attachment base.
Thus attachment therapy would involve crucial ingredients of empathic attunement, active listening and reflection. Also mindfulness therapy from the therapist and patient, through numerous sessions can help people change their internal working models and templates which form the basis of their experiences in all relationships, with their emotions, stresses and everything else.
There appears to be minimal limits, if any, to what mindfulness can help with, from phobias, general anxieties, depression and grief and loss and more. It is not a quick fix. Nor is it some kind of technique. In fact whole schools are emerging in Melbourne and throughout Australia in Buddhist psychotherapy where mindfulness therapy is encouraged, to be included in clinical settings by therapists from numerous orientations.
The purpose of meditation is rarely solely stress management, although stress reduction and deeper relaxation often ensue. No. The aim is usually something spiritual, or more general. Whereas attending counselling normally arises from a desire or need for adjustment to some kind of life stress, or internal or relationship trouble.
However there has been a rise in the validation and use of mindfulness based approaches in psychotherapy in rcent years. Mindfulness therapy involves intentionally attending to thoughts, feelings, body sensations and behaviour from a secure, calm and accepting headspace.
While commonly associated with mindfulness meditation, mindfulness therapy does not aim to completely eradicate suffering as some forms of mindfulness meditation claim possible. Rather mindfulness therapy seek to assist people to cope with stresses very differently to applying psychological techniques or strategies, and thus, the philosophy of mindfulness therapy is probably more of a meta therapeutic model than a method in it's own right.
Also fairly recently there seems to be a surge in the interest of attachment based disorders, i.e. insecure attachment styles arising from a history of unsatisfactory caregiving, resulting in anxious avoidant, anxious ambivallent or anxious dismissive attachment. Compared with secure atatchment, insecure counterparts form templates for future adult relationships and reduce resilliency against stress.
Thus, another aim of counselling and psychotherapy is to change an insecure attachment style to a secure complex. One incredibly effective way to expedite this aim is to incorporate mindfulness therapy into practice. Why. Possibly because self reflection, meta cognitive awareness and mindfulness have been correlated with a secure attachment base.
Thus attachment therapy would involve crucial ingredients of empathic attunement, active listening and reflection. Also mindfulness therapy from the therapist and patient, through numerous sessions can help people change their internal working models and templates which form the basis of their experiences in all relationships, with their emotions, stresses and everything else.
There appears to be minimal limits, if any, to what mindfulness can help with, from phobias, general anxieties, depression and grief and loss and more. It is not a quick fix. Nor is it some kind of technique. In fact whole schools are emerging in Melbourne and throughout Australia in Buddhist psychotherapy where mindfulness therapy is encouraged, to be included in clinical settings by therapists from numerous orientations.