David Creswell – Exploring Equanimity
Mind & Life
The Importance of Acceptance and Equanimity Skills in Mindfulness
In the last couple of years we've been really spending a lot of time doing these dismantling trials where we start to take apart what we think are the active ingredients, driving the stress reduction benefits of mindfulness interventions. And one of the principal active ingredients that we think may be driving these stress reduction benefits are learning these acceptance and equanimity skills. So in that moment when you're sitting there and you're feeling that itch or discomfort in your legs and trying to bring an attitude of non reactivity and curiosity to that experience. You can meet that with a much deeper sense of equanimity and non reactivity.
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