How the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Program Reduces Stress and More

If you are familiar with the world of mindfulness, you must have heard about Jon Kabat-Zinn’s Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program (short MBRS). In fact, even though the name of the program says - ‘stress reduction’, there are many people who weren’t depressed or anxious per se, but upon participating in the program, they couldn’t help but sing praises for the 8-weeks they got to spend in a ‘life-changing’ environment. So, what is this program? How it works and why everyone on the planet need to know a thing or two about its existence? Everything will be answered here. Let’s start with mindfulness itself (in a nutshell, of course!)


Introduction to MIndfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR from John Kabat-Zinn [7 mins].

Describes how the MBSR course began over 40 years ago, narrated by Jon Kabat-Zinn and others who were instrumental in bringing MBSR to the world.

You can download the entire course document here, or download the pages for each week in the weekly lessons.