Mindfulness Skills - Preventive Mental Health Care

     “It is possibly preventive mental health care of the best kind to teach an emerging adult the skills and practices of mindfulness, self-awareness, and self-compassion. Practicing these skills can lead directly to discovery and alignment with one’s personal center of stable, authentic values. With increased self-awareness, and with their core values identified and operating, emerging adults are much better equipped to meet life’s challenges and opportunities successfully and to take their rightful place in the world. In a time when our culture, our nation, and our world are beset by uncertainties, fears, and anxieties, and many people are searching for stability, authentic values, and ways to be happier and healthier, it is difficult to imagine a better investment than teaching young people mindfulness skills.”                       Jeffrey Brantley MD

       Rogers H, Maytan M. Mindfulness for the Next Generation. Helping Emerging Adults Manage Stress and Lead Healthier Lives. Oxford University Press, NY, 2012.