University of Pennsylvania: Penn Program for Mindfulness
Mindfulness for People with Cancer Course Information

What is the Penn Program - Mindfulness for People with Cancer: Healing from Within Course?
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Mindfulness and meditation are powerful tools for people with cancer. Cancer patients face an enormous range of challenges during their diagnosis and treatment. Difficult emotions, fears for the future, treatment side effects, and the need to protect loved ones from distress put tremendous strains on patients and families. Even after treatment is finished, cancer casts a long shadow. Cancer survivors have to cope with traumatic memories of their illness and treatment, and often worry about what might come next. Even after many years, cancer survivors can feel haunted by their experience.
 
We can help. Our program can teach you to manage the distress and uncertainty that comes with cancer and its aftermath. You will learn how to use your own inner resources to cope with challenges that might have once seemed overwhelming. One moment at a time, one breath after the other, you will be able to step back from reactivity and reconnect with your deeper inner balance. Learn to let go of difficulties that are over and gone, and step back from unproductive anxiety about catastrophes that will never happen. Mindfulness and meditation give you control over your situation because you discover how to find balance and strength in the present moment. Once you learn these techniques they belong to you forever, and you can apply them in any situation. Let the medical system deal with the cancer. We will show you how to take care of yourself, and that changes everything. The known benefits of mindfulness for people living with cancer include improved psychological functioning, reduction of stress, enhanced communication skills, and greater resiliency and coping.

What Our Students Say:

“This program changed my life. I am less frantic, less 'stressed' and pay attention to the moment to
live my life more fully. I release the past and do not try to predict or fear the future. I found that this
has affected my relationships and my inner sense of peacefulness.”  M. Gossett

“This program has been truly life changing. I have a calmness and peace that heretofore had eluded me. I have a joy in the daily minute by minute activities of my life that is intense and at the same time peaceful and ordinary. I am able to balance my looking inward with a true loving attitude to those closest to me.”  J. Van Berg,

Please note: The classes and programs offered by eMindful are intended to be educational and do not constitute any form of clinical treatment.

The eMindful classes and programs offered on this website do not constitute professional medical advice and should not be used as a substitute for medical diagnosis, advice or services.

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Scottsdale Institute for Health & Medicine

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