{"id":16040,"date":"2021-05-10T11:35:18","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T15:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/counseling-and-wellness-services-mondays-minutes-of-meditation-3\/"},"modified":"2021-05-10T11:35:18","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T15:35:18","slug":"counseling-and-wellness-services-mondays-minutes-of-meditation-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/counseling-and-wellness-services-mondays-minutes-of-meditation-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Counseling and Wellness Services: Monday&#8217;s Minutes of Meditation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993366;\">Monday\u2019s Minutes of Meditations<\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-114011 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/meditate-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cJon Kabat-Zinn, a leader in the field of mindfulness, has described mindfulness as &#8216;paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>This means consciously paying attention to our senses, and to our feelings, without further judgement. For example, mindfulness could be practiced by focusing on the sensation of water rushing over your hands as it falls from a faucet, or by feeling and accepting sadness without trying to push it away or to evaluate it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-114012 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/meditation-3-people-300x194.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Research has linked mindfulness meditation with reduced anxiety, more positive emotions and, with enough practice, to permanent structural changes in the brain that sustain these benefits. Before beginning, know that meditation is a skill that requires practice. In the beginning it might seem as if unwanted thoughts constantly intrude your mind and the serenity associated with meditation might be brief. With time your ability to meditate and to control your focus, will improve.&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/herapistaid.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">therapistaid.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-114013 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/meditation-monday-450x167.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"167\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Every Monday throughout the semester, Counseling and Wellness Services has offered virtual guided meditations, available through the Campus Chronicle\/Student Announcement posts. The meditations are provided by The Honest Guys channel on YouTube. To learn more about The Honest Guys and their guided meditations, visualizations and guided sleep talk-downs, visit their website, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehonestguys.co.uk\/what-we-do\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Honest Guys<\/a>. We hope you enjoy Monday\u2019s Minutes of Meditation as a way to relax and engage in a positive coping skill throughout the semester.\u00a0 As we approach the end of the semester, we hope you can look to the start of summer as a new beginning of relaxation, hope and positivity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hope &amp; Positivity: A guided meditation for new beginnings (15 minutes)<br \/>\n<\/strong>This calm and gentle guided meditation will help to place you within a mindset of hope and positivity. It will help to give you respite from worry and place your mind upon a more relaxed and optimistic path.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hope &amp; Positivity: A Guided Meditation for New Beginnings\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YYbXfL34o5Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Counseling and Wellness Services and the Dwight Marvin Library are pleased to offer an e-book, &#8220;The Mindful Twenty-Something: Life Skills to Handle Stress and Everything Else&#8221; by Holly B. Rogers, MD. A special thank you to Stephanie Ross, faculty librarian, for purchasing and sharing this wonderful resource with the campus community!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-114014\" src=\"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Mindful-Twenty-Something.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"334\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ebookcentral.proquest.com\/lib\/hvcc-ebooks\/detail.action?docID=4717650\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Mindful Twenty-Something: Life Skills to Handle Stress and Everything Else, e-book<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Wishing you all a great week!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Counseling and Wellness Services<\/strong><br \/>\nSiek Campus Center, room 270<br \/>\n518-629-7320<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:counseling@hvcc.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">counseling@hvcc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Visit our website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hvcc.edu\/studentservices\/counseling-wellness\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Mon, 10 May 2021 11:35:18 +0000 by\u00a0k.weeks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Monday\u2019s Minutes of Meditations \u201cJon Kabat-Zinn, a leader in the field of mindfulness, has described mindfulness as &#8216;paying attention&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-announcement-college-related"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}