ALLEVIATE STRESS AND OVERCOME GRIEF –
Attention Training for Emotional Stress
Throughout our lives, we experience a variety of emotional stress varying from day to day stress and anxiety to emotional strain from change, trauma, grief and loss. Stress is inevitably a part of life, but it is our reaction to stress that creates suffering.
Awareness of the body and mind’s reaction to events can allow you to identify skillful ways for coping with stress to prevent the body from developing disease. When you practice attention training consistently, physical changes in your brain change how you respond to stress creating healthier ways of being with yourself and others.
Mindfulness for Individuals » Attention Training for Emotional Stress
What You Will Learn
During our attention training, we will teach you various attention training techniques to help you find and establish a consistent practice that improves your physical and emotional well-being. In Mindful Presence’s attention training for emotional stress sessions, you will learn techniques to:
- Reduce anxiety, stress and tension
- Cope with grief and loss
- Build resilience after trauma
- Overcome addiction and substance abuse
- Improve cognitive function and processing
- Modulate the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems
- Rebound more easily from adversity or failure
- Gain health and wellness benefits
Pricing
Mindful Presence’s individual training sessions are held privately, one-on-one, and designed around your specific needs and goals. All information shared in our attention training sessions is held confidential and not shared with others unless expressly required to do so by law. Private sessions may also be held via Zoom to allow you to continue your training no matter where need to be.
Initial Consultation: $225/90 minutes
Individual Session: $150 /hour
Prepaid 6- Week Session: $725 ($125/hr)
What This Work Requires
Meaningful change requires more than insight. It requires attention, reflection, experimentation, and consistent application.
Our work together is designed to strengthen your awareness of how you think, respond, make decisions, and direct your attention. Through cognitive mapping, metacognitive practices, attention training, and coaching, you will begin to recognize patterns that support your performance and those that may limit it.
Between sessions, you will observe specific patterns, apply new strategies, experiment with different responses, and practice techniques to strengthen attention and cognitive flexibility.
The goal is to build the capacity to notice what is happening, understand what is driving it, and make more intentional choices.
The more consistently you engage with the work between sessions, the more effectively you will translate insight into lasting changes in leadership, performance, and decision-making.
Scientific Research
Scientific Research suggests that negative effects of emotional stress on the body reduce our immune system and overall health. The following are a few studies that show the impact of attention training for stress and well-being:
- Mindfulness and Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
Taylor & Francis Online - Mindfulness-Based Therapy on Anxiety and Depression
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology - Meditation Programs for Psychological Stress and Well-Being
Jama Network - Mindfulness-Based Therapies for Substance Use Disorders
National Center for Biotechnology Information - Alterations in Brain & Immune Function with Mindfulness Meditation
Research Gate