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Mindfulness Meditation, the popular course that helps participants learn to relieve pain, reduce stress and enhance wellness, is once again being offered by the Jefferson-Myrna Brind Center for Integrative Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital.

"Mindfulness meditation is a process that quiets the mind and releases physical distress. Through mindfulness, you can experience greater vitality and well-being,” explains Diane Reibel, Ph.D., adjunct associate professor of Physiology at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University and director of the Stress Reduction Program. “Participants learn how to quiet the mind and relax the body. They learn to identify early signs of stress and how to respond in healthier ways to stressful situations.

“The only requirements for the program are that an individual have a strong commitment to making a healthy change,” Dr. Reibel explains. 

The Mindfulness Meditation program has been especially helpful for individuals facing the challenges of illness such as chronic pain, headaches, gastrointestinal disorders, heart disease, cancer, HIV or other chronic conditions.

The next eight-week stress reduction programs will be held on Mondays and Wednesdays beginning in January. The Wednesday session is held from 9:30 a.m. to noon at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Center City beginning January 26; the Monday session is held from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the hospital’s Ford Road campus beginning January 31.

The Jefferson-Myrna Brind Center for Integrative Medicine has a leading role in the evaluation and integration of promising complementary approaches to healing.  At its clinical site, Jefferson physicians incorporate nutritional, herbal and homeopathic therapies into a comprehensive patient care approach.  Other Center therapists provide acupuncture, therapeutic massage, nutritional counseling, mindfulness meditation for stress reduction, movement therapy, yoga, light therapy, wellness and prevention programs. At the Center’s academic office, researchers study health outcomes of all patients treated through the clinical program. Collaborative study protocols are developed with Jefferson clinical investigators and basic scientists.

To register or learn more about the stress reduction program, please call 215-955-1376.