{"id":22,"date":"2010-06-15T16:28:26","date_gmt":"2010-06-15T16:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tia.aaronhanson.com\/?page_id=22"},"modified":"2010-06-15T16:28:26","modified_gmt":"2010-06-15T16:28:26","slug":"care","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/tiarich.com\/?page_id=22","title":{"rendered":"CARES \u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"details\" style=\"float: right;\" href=\"https:\/\/healthimprovement.stanford.edu\/classes\/register\/hipClasses.asp?classTitle=cares&#038;classID=&#038;category=&#038;instructor=&#038;-op=eq&#038;stapElig=&#038;levelBeg=1&#038;levelInter=1&#038;levelAdv=1&#038;submit=Find+Classes\" target=\"_blank\">Enroll Now \u00bb<\/a><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/15680606?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;autoplay=1\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nEnjoy being emotionally resilient and physically vibrant by  connecting with your strengths and by cultivating practical skills to  reduce stress through compassion, mindfulness, and emotional  intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>As a CARES\u2122 participant, you will develop your:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>compassion toward yourself and others,<\/li>\n<li>present moment awareness, mindfulness, and<\/li>\n<li>practical emotional intelligence in relation to your self,  co-workers, family and friends.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Through 6-weeks of lecture, experiential exercises, case examples,  scientific research, and lively discussion, psychotherapist and health  educator Tia Rich, Ph.D., will help you to apply new skills to reduce  your current stress, and to develop a CARES\u2122 tool kit for stress  reduction for the rest of your life.<\/p>\n<p>Fifty years of stress management research have identified three  fundamental points:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stress levels predict physical and psychological health.<\/li>\n<li>People facing the same demands can experience different stress  levels.<\/li>\n<li>Compassion, mindful awareness, relationship skills and emotional  intelligence determine stress levels.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Research on mindfulness based stress reduction programs has revealed  that compassion, toward self and others, combined with relationship  skills, is essential for fully realizing the health promoting benefits  of mindfulness. People who struggle with maintaining mindfulness in the  midst of physical discomfort or pain, or in the midst of emotions such  as fear, anxiety, shame, loneliness, grief and anger find that their  mindfulness can be sustained with a simple powerful ingredient:  compassion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you want to be happy, practice  compassion.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;If you want  others to be happy, practice compassion.&#8221;<br \/>\n<span style=\"padding-left: 165px;\">His Holiness the Dalai Lama<br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\nThe CARES\u2122 program provides effective methods for cultivating  compassion, including the art of loving kindness, forgiveness, and  emotional intelligence skills for identifying, expressing, and relating  to emotions.<\/p>\n<h3>CARES\u2122 benefits everyone!<\/h3>\n<p>CARES\u2122 improves your health and wellness if you are  currently in good health or if you are experiencing a stress-related  condition such as pain, TMJ, skin rashes, chronic GI distress,  disordered eating, panic or heart disease. CARES\u2122 offers relief  from stress-related symptoms.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Rich has a psychotherapy practice in Menlo Park, and teaches  health and wellness classes at Stanford University and Medical Center.  She earned a Ph.D. and M.S.W. in Social Welfare from the University of  California at Berkeley, a M.A. in Health Psychology from Stanford, and  completed 15 months of full-time residential training as a mindfulness  yoga and meditation teacher while living at the Himalayan International  Institute of Yoga Science and Philosophy. Dr. Rich has been integrating  the principles and practices of mindfulness, compassion and meditation  into stress management and health promotion since 1984.<\/p>\n<h3>To Register in CARES\u2122<\/h3>\n<p>Call 650-723-9649  or enroll at <a href=\"http:\/\/hip.stanford.edu\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/hip.stanford.edu<\/a> in the CARES\u2122 class. Tuition is $255.  CARES\u2122 meets Tuesdays at Stanford University from 5:45-7:30pm. 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