Mindfulness or Mindlessness?

We all have had our moment where we went through emotional stress. It is normal. Stress can be good until its bad. Once you stress out much it can take over you mind, personality and direct all your choices.

There is a new aspect to psychotherapy called mindfulness. It is a way that people with borderline personality disorder or anyone can learn to cope with emotional distress and anxiety.

Instead of suing a tranquilizer or alcohol to calm you down, use mindfulness.

Gregory J. Johanson, Ph.D. discusses it:
“For clinical purposes, mindfulness can be considered a distinct state of consciousness distinguished from the ordinary consciousness of everyday living. In general, a mindful state of consciousness is characterized by awareness turned inward toward present felt experience. It is passive, though alert, open, curious, and exploratory. It seeks to simply be aware of what is, as opposed to attempting to do or confirm anything."

Mindfulness is a way of coming to reality to your struggles. It is believed that if you can cope with your problems and come to terms with it you will calm down.

While this does not solve the problem causing someone to be stressed out it can give people a healthy way of coping. Instead of acting out or being harmful towards oneself. It isn't foolproof but is definitely worth a try.

Try it next time you're a little stressed out and see what happens. Think about what is causing the stress and come to terms with it.

Do you think this can be another great step for psychologist or something that doesn't work?