Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is a well-defined and systematic patient-centred educational approach which uses training in mindfulness meditation to teach people how to take better care of themselves and live healthier and more adaptive lives (Kabat-Zinn, 1996). MBSR is “aimed at developing both stability of mind and body, and deep insight into an array of mental and physical conditions that inhibit an individual’s capacity to respond effectively and pro-actively in demanding, highly charged or more commonplace everyday activities....assisting individuals to develop an array of self-regulatory and self-care skills” (Kabat-Zinn, & Santorelli, 2007).