In 1979 Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn founded the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program at the University of Massachusetts to treat the chronically ill, which sparked a growing interest and application of mindfulness ideas and practices in the medical world for the treatment of a variety of conditions in people both healthy and unhealthy.
Much of this was inspired by teachings from the East, and particularly from the Buddhist traditions, where mindfulness is the 7th step of the Noble Eightfold Path taught by Siddhartha Gautama, The Buddha, who founded Buddhism
almost 2,500 years ago. Although originally articulated as a part of
what is known in the West as Buddhism, there is nothing inherently
religious about mindfulness, and it is often taught independent of
religious or cultural connotation.
Thich Nhat Hanh
has brought mindfulness to the attention of Westerners. It was on a
retreat he led in the United States that an American doctor, Jon
Kabat-Zinn, first realised the appropriateness of mindfulness in the
treatment of chronic medical conditions. And, later Kabat-Zinn adapted
Hanh’s teachings on mindfulness into the structured eight-week
Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction course, which has since spread
throughout the western World.Mindfulness and other Buddhist meditation techniques receive support in the West from figures such as the scientist Jon Kabat-Zinn, the teacher Jack Kornfield, the teacher Joseph Goldstein, the psychologist Tara Brach, the writer Alan Clements, and the teacher Sharon Salzberg, who have been widely attributed with playing a significant role in integrating the healing aspects of Buddhist meditation practices with the concept of psychological awareness and healing. Psychotherapists have adapted and developed mindfulness techniques into a promising cognitive behavioral therapies vis. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT, pronounced act) ACT was recently reviewed by SAMHSA's National Registry of Evidence-Based Programs and Practices
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