Mindfulness meditation may ease anxiety, mental stress
Meditation, also known as “present-focused awareness” is a mind-calming practice of mindfulness. Although mediation isn’t exactly mainstream, it has continued to grow in popularity. Those who practice it do so with the hopes of staving off stress and stress-related health problems. The actual practice of meditation involves sitting comfortably, focusing on your breathing, and then bringing your mind’s attention to the present moment without drifting into concerns about the past or future. In numerous well-designed studies, researchers from Johns Hopkins University found that mindfulness meditation can help ease psychological stresses like anxiety, depression, and pain.
Psychiatrists at Harvard Medical School maintain that mindfulness meditation makes perfect sense for treating anxiety. This is because “people with anxiety have a problem dealing with distracting thoughts that have too much power and they cant distinguish between a problem-solving thought and a nagging worry that has no benefit.” If you have unproductive worries you can train yourself to experience those thoughts completely differently in that it teaches you to recognize the thought as just a thought – and not part of your core self. Numerous studies have found that mindfulness-based stress reduction programs helped quell anxiety symptoms in people with generalized anxiety disorder, a condition marked by hard-to-control worries, poor sleep, and irritability.
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