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A Little Bit About Everyday Mindfulness Scotland
Jayne Howie, Director and Mindfulness Teacher
Jayne is a mindfulness teacher, Counsellor and a yoga instructor she has practiced meditation for many years and continues to include mindfulness in her daily life. She has trained to use mindfulness techniques with children, young people and adults. Jayne comes from a background of promoting social change in people bringing a wealth of experience from different settings through working in the statutory sector, voluntary sector and further education. She worked across a range of care settings, including mental health, child protection and addictions, before moving into training and higher education. She lectured at the University of the West of Scotland for 13 years and continued her interest in emotional wellbeing by delivering mindful based interventions with students and undertook research on promoting change through relationship-based practice. Jayne has a holistic ethos believing in and working with the links between mind and body. She has practiced yoga and meditation for over 20 years and taught for 10 years. She became aware of mindfulness through her counselling training, experiencing first-hand the ability it has to influence the stressors in people’s lives, believing it’s a way of opening your inner resources and empowering yourself. She went on to complete the mindfulness teacher training course with NHS Ayrshire & Arran in 2014 and has been running courses since then. Jayne has a holistic ethos believing in and working with the links between mind and body. Over the last few years Jayne has combined her love of counselling, mindfulness and yoga by working with Everyday Mindfulness Scotland and developing her own Private Practice http://jhowiecounselling.co.uk/
Benefits
Research about mindfulness shows measurable and significant benefits to our wellbeing including less stress, less anxiety, greater focus, increased calmness, and greater happiness. In the same way that we attend to our physical health, it’s also important to attend to our mental health, our emotional wellbeing. Over two decades of clinical research has shown that it can benefit people suffering from anxiety, recurrent depression, chronic pain, substance abuse and other conditions. You can learn it from a book or an app on your phone, but sometimes it helps to have a guide to get you started on your journey and taking a course is a great way to do this. Our feedback speaks for itself see link and those that have taken courses with us tell us that the benefits include:
- Stress reduction
- Reduced rumination
- Decreased negative thoughts, depression and anxiety
- Less emotional reactivity and more effective emotion regulation
- Increased focus and concentration
- More cognitive flexibility
- Improved working memory
- An overall sense of calm and wellbeing and enjoying life more fully
Our courses help you to rewire the brain, to self-regulate, restore balance to the nervous system. build resilience and reprogram the mind. When we relax, our mind slows down and then soothing hormones pump into our body enabling us to feel calm, and tension free and we begin to feel good. We enable the relaxation response to kick in which negates the stress response and we can begin to reset.
