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Patrick Mellen is trained and certified in two mindfulness practices - the Alexander Technique and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR).
His goal is to help you practice and learn self-awareness and meditation, efficiently and effectively.
Alexander technique
The Alexander Technique is a process that teaches the student to recognize and replace habitual tension with balance; the technique is mostly known in the performing arts but is also effective in addressing repetitive stress injuries.
Named after its developer Frederick Matthias Alexander, the technique is a popular type of alternative therapy based on the idea that poor posture gives rise to a range of health problems.
An Alexander Technique teacher helps you to identify and lose the harmful habits you have built up over a lifetime of stress and learn to move more freely.
The Alexander Technique can also help you if:
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You suffer from repetitive strain injury or carpal tunnel syndrome
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You have a backache or stiff neck and shoulders
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You become uncomfortable when sitting at your computer for long periods of time
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You are a singer, musician, actor, dancer, or athlete and feel you are not performing at your full potential
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) is an eight-week evidence-based program that offers secular, intensive mindfulness training to assist people with stress, anxiety, depression, and pain.
Developed at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in the 1970s by Professor Jon Kabat-Zinn, MBSR uses a combination of mindfulness meditation, body awareness, yoga, and exploration of patterns of behavior, thinking, feeling, and action.
Mindfulness can be understood as the non-judgmental acceptance and investigation of present experience, including body sensations, internal mental states, thoughts, emotions, impulses, and memories, in order to reduce suffering or distress and to increase well-being. Mindfulness meditation is a method by which attention skills are cultivated, emotional regulation is developed, and rumination and worry are significantly reduced.
During the past decades, mindfulness meditation has been the subject of more controlled clinical research, which suggests its potential beneficial effects on mental health, as well as physical health.