Improving Mental Health Through Mindfulness Exercise

A video of a lecture given by Dr. Stuart Eisendrath, director of the UCSF Depression Center on "Staying in the Now: Maintaining Mental Health Through Mindfulness - Mindfulness Exercise."

The lecture is presented by the UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine from February 2010 for UCTV for educational use only.




In this video lecture Dr. Stuart Eisendrath leads a mindfulness exercise as a technique for maintaining mental health.

Benefits of Exercise for Physical and Mental Health

This knowledge of the benefits of exercise has been known for centuries.

Lack of activity destroys
the good condition of every human being,
while movement and methodical physical exercise
save it and preserve it.

Plato

In this video clip from Dr. Michael McKee of the Cleveland Clinic on "Exercise for physical and mental health," he explains how exercise can not only benefit your physical well being, but your mental well being as well.




Dr. McKee discusses how he uses exercise as a prescription to help his patient feel better.