Virtual Mindfulness is project to pilot the use of Virtual Reality technology to deliver training sessions on mindfulness techniques to relieve pain and associated stress for the physically disabled.
What is Mindfulness?
Mindfulness uses meditation techniques to help relieve pain and suffering. It allows people to observe painful sensations as they arise and let go of struggling with them. Rather than only targeting one specific aspect of a person’s suffering, mindfulness also helps deal with associated stresses and its effects on a person’s overall quality of life.
Click on the video below for an explanation on the science behind mindfulness.
Why Virtual Reality?
Virtual Reality technology allows people to be ‘virtually’ transported to another physical environment without leaving their homes. With costs for access devices having also significantly dropped, it is a perfect medium to help the less physically abled ‘virtually’ attend training in mindfulness on an ongoing basis without leaving their homes.
The diagram below shows how the pilot will live stream mindfulness training sessions to remote participants, where ever they might be.
Who is Virtual Mindfulness?
Chris Tia is the founder of the Virtual Mindfulness project. He is a polio survivor who has spent the better part of my life learning to cope with the pain, fatigue and associated stresses that comes from using crutches all day. The practice of mindfulness has allowed him to dampen the stresses and strains of everyday life without medication or complicated medical devices.
This project is a culmination of the desire to help others gain a better quality of life, by easing some of the physical burdens that comes from having a disability. Other partners helping us on the journey include Polio Australia, Spinal Life Australia as well as Griffith University.
Polio Australia | Spinal Life Australia | Griffith University
Why should you support Virtual Mindfulness?
We have some amazing organisations and people that have assisted us develop this project. We just need your help to make it a reality. Help us raise $9,000 to get the pilot up and running. Make a difference by improving the quality of life for the physically disabled.
We've also put in place some great rewards to make it worth your while. These range from receiving personal thank you's from us and the pilot participants to getting special access to a behind the scenes of the project coming together - in 360 degrees of course!
