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A Seminar on Mindfulness

Sponsored by the Association for Adults with Autism Philippines

What is Mindfulness?

– An evidence-based technique that builds well-being and communications skills.

– A way of paying attention to, and seeing clearly, whatever is happening in one’s life. It can help to develop healthier responses to life’s challenges by helping persons get in touch with inner and outer resources. some of which they may not realize they have.

– It can reduce the effects of stress and help achieve inner peace within one’s self and balance in the home.

WHEN: Saturday, March 7, 2015, 8 a.m. – 12 p.m.

WHERE: Ateneo Law School, Rockwell Center, Makati, Metro Manila

On Site Registration: Php 300.00

The 4-hour seminar is an orientation to the philosophy and practice of Mindfulness . The invited speakers are from The Centre for Mindfulness Studies in Toronto, Canada. They will present the philosophy, concept, and techniques of Mindfulness and discuss how Mindfulness can be applied to the Autism condition

PRESENTERS:

Teresita Angangco-Warner, M.A., Executive Director, Centre for Mindfulness Studies

Leyse Cerswell, M.A., Mindfulness Facilitator and Therapist, Centre for Mindfulness Studies

Lirio S. Covey, Ph.D., Resource Person on Autism, President, AAAP

The Centre for Mindfulness Studies (www.mindfulnessstudies.com) provides therapies for anxiety, depression, depressive relapse prevention, healthy eating, ADHD, diabetes, and stress reduction.

The Centre has received a major award from Grand Challenges Canada to implement a Mindfulness-based project in the Philippines to test the feasibility of using para-professionals to treat mood disorders in Filipino Children.

For more information: Catherine Cham – 0917-500-7760;

Christine Siruelo – 0917-867-9488

Measles/Mumps/Rubella Vaccine down, Measles outbreak follows

by Lirio Sobrevinas-Covey​​

After the publication of Andrew Wakefield’s 1998 article in Lancet, that the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine causes Autism, the prevalence of measles and mumps in the UK (where Lancet is published and the story was big news) went up. This was attributed by the public health community to many parents’ decision not to have their children immunized with the MMR because of Wakefield’s article.

Much research was conducted to replicate Wakefield’s finding. None did. Further, in 2010 Lancet retracted the article after evidence of methodological and ethical flaws (including fraudulent data). Refer to AAAP Today entry on Nov 2, 2014 (www.adultautismphil.wordpress.com)

For a long-time, despite opinion-based advocacy of some US parents, prominently Jenny McCarthy, against the MMR vaccine, no upswing in measles and mumps occurred in the US.

Perhaps it was just a matter of time.

There has now been a surge of measles, as seen in six states in the US and also in Mexico, widely covered in the US media. Confirming early fears by the public health community in the US, it is thought to be a consequence of many children’s not having received the MMR vaccine.

Ironically and sadly, the reduction in administering the MMR vaccine has not decreased the prevalence of Autism in the United States, in the UK, or worldwide. However, it has resulted in what the vaccine was supposed to prevent – the epidemic outbreak of measles in many United States, not only in California, where it was first observed, around Christmas time, 2014.

In this conflict between opinion and scientific fact, it is quite apparent that, finally, science is getting the upper hand.

Measles cases in the US.docx