“But nobody can run fast enough to escape their own worries,” says Williams. Williams is a Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Oxford, and he co-founded Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) with his colleagues Zindel Segal and John Teasdale. The MBCT program is based on Jon Kabat-Zinn’s Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program. MBCT is designed for people who suffer from recurring bouts of depression. In the clip below, Williams gives a brief history of stress and how mindfulness counteracts the common tendency we have to bluster through the day.
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