Mindfulness-Based Wellness

"Little by little a person becomes evil, as a water pot is filled by drops of water...
Little by little a person becomes good, as a water pot is filled by drops of water."

Buddha (563 - 483 BC) Source: The Dhammapada

This is beautifully put... the point being that everything we do matters. Everything we do changes who we are, and how we live our lives. This is one of the principles on which we operate in the Mindfulness-Based Wellness (MBW) program: we help people to identify how they want to live their lives (i.e., their values); and then we encourage them to choose very reasonable, small changes in the activities they do every day, every week. It is the accomplishment of these small positive changes (the "drops of water") that create genuine, sustainable directional changes in the course and quality of their lives. One of the exciting findings now emerging from our outcome data, following last semester's inaugural MBW program, is that our participants displayed a significant overall boost in their Quality of Life scores. What a joy it is for me, to see that happening!