Anxiety
How to Be Mindful When You’re Anxious
In small doses, anxiety can put us in touch with what we need most. The problem arises when anxiety overwhelms and blocks us.
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Mental Health
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Anxiety
This is Your Anxious Brain on Meditation
Mindfulness asks us to simply notice the storylines we create in our minds without trying to change them. Meditation gives us the space to choose not to react to those things that trigger our anxiety.
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Anxiety
How to Stop Your Stories From Running Your Life
Research shows us that we not only have the capacity to pay attention to and stop the chatter of our stories, but we can also reduce our stress, rewire our brains, and reinvent our relationships by responding to them differently.
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Anxiety
When Avoidance Rules Your Life
Though we often equate compulsions and addictions, researchers are now drawing a sharp distinction between these two behaviors—one is about avoiding and the other about seeking.
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Anxiety
How Mindfulness Helps You Cultivate a Teflon Mind
Sometimes negative thoughts and feelings need to roll off of us.
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Anxiety
Fight Back Without Empowering What You’re Fighting Against
We should always fight for what’s right. But when we’re on the defensive, our brains contract around that feeling, and that affects how we respond—with more reactivity (we've all seen our friends Facebook updates lately), which can stifle skillful action. How do we let go, and still keep going?
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Anxiety
Are Your Happiness Goals Too High?
On the road to well-being, says James Baraz, embrace all your diverse feelings.
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Anxiety
Mindful Activist’s Toolkit for The Women’s March
Here are eight mindfulness tools to march with when you join the masses to honor our democracy at the Women’s March.
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Anxiety
What to Do When You Feel Stuck in Negative Emotions
According to a new book, the key is “emotional agility”: being less rigid and more flexible with our thoughts and feelings.
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Anxiety
Forget Me, Forget Me Not…
We tend to think of memory as a one-shot deal. We experience something and we either store it in memory or let it go. New research suggests otherwise: Fresh data can draw out latent memories.
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