ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to discuss the role and benefit of mindfulness in the development and maintenance of professional resilience with a particular focus on the links between the mind, body and relationships. The effective application of mindfulness would foster the person's openness, observation and objectivity to create a stable and more focused picture of reality. The use of mindfulness appears to have an important role in stabilising the mind and allowing people to focus their mindsight on the flow of energy and information within their mind, body and relationships. Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike can utilise techniques to strengthen and consequently benefit from mindfulness. The primary method in Buddhism that people utilise to exercise and strengthen their mindfulness is meditation. The integration of formal, daily meditation practice into everyday professional practice would allow social workers to strengthen their professional resilience and maintain an effective and ethical practice.
