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Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is an eight-week, evidence-based program designed to provide secular, intensive mindfulness training to help individuals manage stress, anxiety, depression, and pain. Developed at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in the 1970s by Professor Jon Kabat-Zinn, MBSR was developed in the late 1970s by Jon Kabat-Zinn at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. It incorporates a blend of mindfulness meditation, body awareness, yoga, and the exploration of patterns of behavior, thinking, feeling, and action. Mindfulness involves the non-judgmental acceptance and examination of present experiences, including body sensations, internal mental states, thoughts, emotions, impulses, and memories, with the aim of reducing suffering or distress and enhancing well-being. Mindfulness meditation cultivates attention skills, emotional regulation, and significantly reduces rumination and worry. Over the past few decades, controlled clinical research has suggested that mindfulness meditation may have beneficial effects on mental health, athletic performance, and physical health. Although MBSR is rooted in the wisdom teachings of Zen Buddhism, Hatha Yoga, Vipassana, and Advaita Vedanta, the program itself is secular. The MBSR program is described in detail in Kabat-Zinn's 1990 book Full Catastrophe Living. Kabat-Zinn's book, Full Catastrophe Living, first published in 1990 and reissued in 2013, provides a comprehensive description of the MBSR program

History:
In 1979, Jon Kabat-Zinn founded the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, and nearly two decades later, the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. These institutions have been instrumental in supporting the growth and implementation of MBSR in hospitals worldwide. Kabat-Zinn's book, Full Catastrophe Living, which details the MBSR program, became a bestseller and was reissued in a revised edition in 2013. In 1993, Jon Kabat-Zinn's MBSR course was featured in Bill Moyers' documentary, Healing from Within. By 2015, nearly 80% of medical schools offered some element of mindfulness training, and research and education centers dedicated to mindfulness had proliferated.