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What is Mindfulness-based Core Process Psychotherapy?

Mindfulness based Core Process psychotherapy is the original mindfulness based psychotherapy in the UK, uniquely blending the wisdom and compassion of Eastern mindfulness practices with advances in Western psychodynamic and neuroscientific understanding. It’s a trauma informed psychotherapy training and practice, influenced greatly by the somatic practices of Peter Levine and the neuroscientific findings of Stephen Porges’ Polyvagal theory.

The benefits of mindfulness practice and mindfulness based therapies are gaining a rapidly growing evidence base across the world. Some of the benefits people experience are:

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Some of the benefits people experience are:

  • Greater ease in handling thoughts, moods, emotions
  • Improved focus, memory and concentration
  • Feeling better able to manage stress or anxiety
  • Experiencing greater self-confidence and being less self-critical
  • Feeling more compassionate and less judgemental
  • Experiencing more connection with others and the surrounding world
  • Noticing and responding more effectively to unhelpful habits/patterns in the mind
  • Feeling more energy and enthusiasm
  • A sense of being better equipped to cope with chronic illness, pain or life events
  • Feeling more able to respond skilfully rather than react
  • Having more clarity around your experiences and values

“Feelings are just visitors, let them come and go.”

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Mindfulness simply means bringing conscious attention to your experience, in a kind, non-judgmental and accepting way. Our work will gently support you to explore and become more aware of your own feelings, thoughts, and body sensations. Anyone who’s watched a baby or young child will know that we all have a natural capacity to be open and live purely in the moment yet we lose this throughout life as we develop protective strategies to adapt to our environments or cope with difficulties.

By enquiring into our present experience, we can develop a greater understanding of the nature of our struggles, noticing how we get stuck in unhelpful unconscious patterns and recognising how past experiences or future worries may be affect our perception and experience in the present. In becoming more aware of our feelings, thoughts, and body sensations, we can begin to step back, pause and consider what no longer serves us. We can begin to feel a sense of space and freedom to consciously choose our response rather than feeling getting hijacked by old unconscious patterns.

Mindfulness can also help us to see the constantly changing nature of our experiences, which can help us to notice that they are not fixed or ‘who we are’, even though they feel that way. We can begin to see our experiences like passing weather conditions, which can help us to be with difficulties, in the knowledge that it will pass.