A few years ago I decided to take the plunge and I signed up and paid for an 8 week intensive Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction course, an MBSR course. We met at a yoga studio in Montclair every Friday morning for about 3 hours, and the time was filled with a mix of psycho-education (learning about what we were doing, and what we hope to gain), meditative practice (practicing what were learning), and self-reflection (talking about all the feelings and reactions each of us was having). And to be totally honest, the first few sessions felt like punishment.