10th September 2010

A lot of the sessions people ask for help with tend to revolve around stress.  The world has been slowly switching on to the fact that stress can be a problem.  There are so many ways of  dealing with stress and new ways surfacing almost daily.  We have to remember that stress can be incredibly stimulating and help us to get out of trouble as well as cause us and others around us problems.

  My personal view on stress as I write this is that it is not so much the eradication of stress that is important, but rather our way of managing it.  Mindfulness practise helps us to be aware not only of how the stress may be affecting us, but also how to respond to the affect rather than just habitually react.  Rather than repressing the stress cycle or intentionally creating more stress to 'let it out' (as oppose to just releasing the unwanted stress as it arises) , by developing mindfulness practise the stress can be channeled into a positive outcome rather than a negative or meaningless one.