Emotional Health

Articles about emotional health from Dr. Susan Jamieson’s Hong Kong Integrative Medical Practice.

What Is Mindfulness, And How Does It Work?

Stressed Man

Mindfulness training is increasingly popular among doctors and psychologists as a practical tool to help patients who are anxious, stressed or depressed. It may be a new concept for some people, the root of it is thousands of years old. Also known as Mindfulness Meditation, the benefits are both incredible and far-reaching.

Mindfulness is our natural ability to bring attention to our experience as it unfolds in the present moment, bringing us back to what is happening in the here-and-now. It is a practical grounding in the “present-ness” of human experience.

Is Stress Contagious?

Useful tips to help you manage the stress caused by other people around you Everyone has a certain amount of stress in his or her life.  This can result from family, job, finances and general life responsibilities.  Often though, stress…

Practical Stress Solutions

“Have you ever felt stressed?” The answer is very probably a resounding “yes”. At the best of times Hong Kong is a stressful city, but with natural disasters like the Japanese tsunami impacting people we know and work with, there…

Feeling under the Weather?

Many people accept low level symptoms of illness as “normal”, living with them rather than seeking help — and a cure.  Perhaps because they’re busy, perhaps because they don’t think that their “illness” will be taken seriously by the medical…

Stress in the City

You’d think that psychotherapists and counsellors would be the busiest people in Hong Kong during this financial crisis. However, surprisingly, it seems that this is not necessarily the case. Is this perhaps because people don’t recognize that they are suffering from stress and more to the point, that something can be done about it? This release discusses symptoms and treatments.