Mindfulness Toolkit mp3

Dear Adult, Parent, Therapist, or Teacher,

Do you have a stressful life? Do you worry that you, your child, or your clients or students are being negatively impacted by the constant stressors present in today’s society? Are you afraid that stress might be making you sick or anxious or depressed? Are you looking for holistic strategies that will help decrease the effects of stress in your life or you client’s or student’s life?

These MP3 files are for:
→ Anyone who wonders what mindfulness skills are and what benefits they can provide.
→ Individuals who have wanted to get started with a meditation practice but feel overwhelmed just thinking about it.
→ Adults looking for a simple, practical way to incorporate mindfulness skills into their life without having to spend 30 minutes ‘meditating’.
→ Individuals and groups who want to reap the emotional, physical, cognitive, and spiritual benefits that the compelling research on mindfulness is demonstrating.
→ Therapists and teachers who want an effective, practical resource to help their clients or students use mindfulness in and out of session or the classroom.

What if you could:

Finally understand what mindfulness is;
Learn ten practical mindfulness skills that you can easily incorporate into your daily life;
Use guided mindfulness meditations to calm down your ‘monkey brain’ and learn to be present;
Decrease anxiety, improve mood, increase concentration, sleep better;
Decrease the impact of stress on your health and well-being;
Better regulate your overall response to stress
Enjoy life more?

Researchers found that mindfulness practices improve:

anxiety
depression
anger
overall wellbeing
joy
hope
contentment
long term mental health
eating disorders
attention and concentration
emotional regulation
self-awareness
compassion and acceptance of self and others
psoriasis, fibromyalgia, arthritis, low back pain
ADHD
sleep
substance abuse

I’m sure that we can all benefit from some help in a few of these areas. You already know how challenging it can be to find effective strategies to help with these issues. This Mindfulness Toolkit will guide you through ten effective mindfulness skills that you can incorporate into your everyday life. These skills are based on evidence based research that proves their effectiveness. They are designed to teach you how to be more mindful in your life. They start with the age old mindfulness technique of awareness of breath and conclude with mindfulness of intuition. All of them help you to stop the busy chatter of the ‘monkey brain’, slow down, tune in and be more present in your life. Use of these skills will allow you to reap the benefits of mindfulness that are proven by research.

So who am I and why should you listen to me?

My name is Debra Burdick, LCSW, and I initially became interested in mindfulness to deal with a chronic illness (now thankfully healed). I found it so helpful in my own life that I started teaching my clients the skills I was using. I went on to develop clinical material on mindfulness skills and created a 4-step process for working with clients using mindfulness that I perfected in my private practice and in an intensive outpatient program. My clients have shown me that mindfulness skills improve the rate and quality of treatment outcomes. I now incorporate mindfulness skills in all areas of