In an age where our lives seem to be accelerating, stress naturally seems to be increasing. It is no wonder that so many of us are craving avoidance and escape. Millions of people around the world suffer from addictive behaviors. When caught up in the cycle of addictive behavior, there is an inability to accept whatever is being felt in the present moment and the mind is constantly wandering onto the next ‘fix'. In the present moment, distressing thoughts and emotions can feel like unwanted guests that we can't seem to get away from. In our fight to avoid this distress, we actually amplify stress and uncomfortable emotions such as sadness, frustration, irritation, shame, or guilt. This often leads us into a state of mindlessness or auto-pilot, where we are unaware of our environment and more susceptible to triggers, cravings, and urges.

Mindful Solutions for Addiction and Relapse Prevention has been created to provide practical tools that help us effectively become more aware of the triggers, cravings, and urges that keep us entangled in our addictions. No matter the challenges we face, it's no secret that we all get caught up in habitual cycles of being and doing that keep us suffering. These educational and experiential CDs unveil a coalescene of age old wisdom with practical psychological principles to help us break free from old patterns and give us the tools to live the lives we want.

Elisha Goldstein, Ph.D. is a Clinical Psychologist and co-author of “A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook”, Foreword by Jon Kabat-Zinn, and author of the popular Mindfulness and Psychotherapy blog on Psychcentral.com and Mentalhelp.net.” He conducts a private practice in West Los Angeles.

Stefanie Goldstein, Ph.D. is a respected Clinical Psychologist and  co-author of the Audio CD Mindful Solutions for Addiction and Relapse Prevention. Dr. Goldstein is also an Addiction Medicine Specialist and a trained practioner in Psychosynthesis, an integrative form of psychology that focuses on the synthesis, healing, and growth of the self.

There is no doubt about it, today's business is a round-the-clock atmosphere. We are hounded with external pressures, overwhelmed with information overload, asked to deliver more with less, work longer hours, and have less personal time for renewal activities. What is the result? Self-inflicted attention deficit disorder, exhaustion, lack of focus, reduced health, and burnout. This leads to lower job satisfaction, morale, and productivity. Hardly the results we want.

What more and more business leaders are finding is instead of doing more things faster, you need to learn how to prioritize your attention and do the most important things really well. That is the key to being effective in today's New Business World. So the issue isn't how to manage your time, the issue is more about managing your attention with the most important things in work and life.

This program provides tools to effectively identify and focus on the most important things right now, reduce your stress levels, and become more successful in your everyday life.

In bringing mindfulness into your everyday life you will eventually be able to listen better, anticipate and solve problems, see solutions, have more confidence and energy, and be happier and more successful at work with a sense of balance and focus. Ultimately, this will give you the ability to do the work you want to do and live the life you want to live. 

Program Objectives:

• Increase awareness of ineffective habitual patterns that you unknowingly engage in

• Gain a renewed sense of control and choice in the present moment

• Be able to break the cycles of distraction and wasted time that too often lead to overwhelm and stress. 

This day opens out to a community of speakers representing different parts of the country and different facets of clinical practice. Each speaker brings their area of expertise to the wider community of the conference.

With this as our direction for the day the presenters further the process of creating ways of exploring and experiencing the interconnected web of ourselves, living with others, with all life, in-the-world. Such an experience of interbeing is a natural expression of mindful mind, compassion for all beings and the wisdom of  unbiased awareness.

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