Dr. Anthony Pantaleno, Psychologist

Pantaleno Psychological Services, PLLC

Helping teens, young adults, their families, and professionals who work with them
 

358 Veterans Memorial Highway, Commack, NY 11725 

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A note from Dr. Pantaleno about attending his Workshop:  I am delighted to let you know that I will be gracing the halls of Albert Ellis Institute with its first Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workshop, on Friday April 16, 2010, 1:30 to 4:30, at 45 East 65th Street in Manhattan.  Registration is $40 for professionals, $10 for full-time students with student ID.  To register online: click here. When asked "How did you learn about this workshop?", please click on the dropdown menu box and select "From the workshop presenter." I would love to see your friendly faces in the audiences.  Please encourage your graduate students to attend as well.  They'll get a good overview of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy and get into active mindfulness practices.

 

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction for Educators 

 

MINDFULNESS is a state of mind which is :

  • Friendly, welcoming, nonjudgmental 

  • Focuses on present-moment awareness

  • Fosters an acceptance of WHAT IS, with the intent of observing and not permitting anything from the past or the future to stick to us (also called “teflon mind”). 

 

Mindfulness meditation asks that we INTENTIONALLY STOP the flow of our habitual unconsciousness, inattention, multitasking, and the 24/7 flow of our thoughts.  It is the shift from the auto-pilot mode of our minds to the BEING mode of mind.  It is experiential, not cognitive.

If we can learn to be mindful of our moments, and use our breath as an anchor to keep us in the present, we are ALL capable of learning how to change our relationship to our physical and emotional pain.  We learn how to accept and work with difficult mind states instead of desperately trying to control them, change them, force them to be other than they are, or running to avoid or escape them.

Informal and formal meditation practice does not require you to purchase anything, nor does it ask that you adopt any particular religious or spiritual beliefs.  It posts no deadlines for mastery, has no white-robed guru waiting to put us in a trance, nor does it profess that there is only one way to “do it right”.

Mindfulness opens your mind by opening your heart.  Its fundamental principle is that we are asleep during most of our waking lives, and extends an invitation for us to all awake.  Practiced for 2,500 years in India and China, it has found its way into mainstream American medicine and psychology in the last thirty years, and promises to change the way we live and engage our students in the classroom.

 

 

© 2009 by Anthony Pantaleno, Ph.D.