hi and welcome back so you may
be wondering where and mbs or came
from and how it came to play
such an important role in the growth
of mindfulness in recent decades and that's
what we're going to explore in this
lesson and to do so we need
to start with the founder of mbs
are who
his jon kabat zinn and he has
a phd in molecular biology from mit
massachusetts institute of technology and is also
professor emeritus at the university of massachusetts
medical center so very accomplished scientist and
professor who happened to also have very
extensive
live experience and commitment in both meditation
and yoga and what he could see
was that his practices his mindfulness practice
is could be applied in a way
that could be very useful very meaningful
to people who have chronic pain who
were basically at
the end of modern medicines ability to
help them with their chronic pain
and so he proposed offering mindfulness and
yoga to patients with chronic pain and
doctors who are treating those patients were
interested and so mbs are took root
this was in nineteen seventy nine and
it was designed as a compliment to
traditional medicine so while it came
from buddhist practices and yoga it was
very intentionally designed to be nonreligious to
be inclusive and accessible to everyone regardless
of one's background
so it was created in a scientific
medical setting it was never meant to
replace traditional medicine but rather to be
a supplement to traditional medicine something that
someone could we've into their care
to help them
and so as a scientist in a
scientific setting the program right out of
the gate was designed to be studied
and so there's data that goes back
to the inception of mbs are over
many decades that shows a wide range
of benefits so there's both scientific day
ada an anecdotal evidence that mbs are
can be very effective way of addressing
chronic pain anxiety depression stress reduction and
much more and this combination of ah
scientific data and anecdotal stories spread very
quickly
and mbs are began to expand from
one hospital and university setting widely with
the in the medical arena
and then more broadly into mental health
care and then beyond and so now
we see and be a sovereign of
course mindfulness in general broadly in many
different environments in workplace settings in government
in education and beyond
so that wraps up our brief look
at the history of mbs arm where
it came from next we'll explore how
and be a are is relevant today