People, and patients in particular, are unique in the way they perceive and cope with the anxiety, and stress also the way one patient feels is different from the way another patient does.
Undoubtedly, it is related to the personality, strength, faith, and hope that patients are feeling toward their sickness. Consequently, people and patients can learn how to manage the stress and anxiety, and our final objective is to help patients to reduce their level of anxiety and stress so that they can increase their quality of live.
There are several techniques, that can help an impact on the way people (and patients in particular) perceive their feelings and how they manage the stress. Offering a powerful tool to control their anxiety and stress related with the way they perceive their disease, will help patients to experience better quality of live.
This hhc activity consist in offering Mindfulness workshops for Patients diagnosed of Breast Cancer in the two main Hospitals in Murcia (Spain): Morales Messeguer and Hospital Virgen de la Arritxaca.
What is “Mindfulness” and what does it means?
There is a body of scientific evidence that support all the benefits of mindfulness specially controlling stress.
Mindfulness is a technique which can help people manage their mental health or simply gain more enjoyment from life and also mindfulness describes a way of approaching our thoughts and feelings so that we become more aware of them and react differently to them.
Mindfulness can help breast cancer patients to:
- Increase their awareness of your thoughts and feelings
- Manage unhelpful thoughts
- Develop more helpful responses to difficult feelings and events
- Be kinder towards themselves
- Feel calmer and able to manage stress better
- Manage physical health problem, like chronic pain.
Mindfulness is a technique which can help people manage their mental health or simply gain more enjoyment from life. It involves making a special effort to give your full attention to what is happening in the present moment – to what’s happening in your body, your mind or your surroundings, for example – in a non-judgemental way. HERE and NOW
Mindfulness describes a way of approaching our thoughts and feelings so that we become more aware of them and react differently to them.
With this project, Eisai will contribuite to help patients with breast cancer, offering a very powerful tool to control their stress associated with their breast cancer processs.
