“Grounding techniques are strategies that help connect or “ground” you in the present moment. They’re essentially a form of mindfulness, which has been shown to help many different mental health conditions. A large 2014 reseach review with Trusted Source with nearly 19,000 studies concluded that mindfulness-based stress reduction programs can ease symptoms of anxiety, depression and […]
Greetings! After 17 months of something pretty close to freedom, I returned to work recently and have had less time for blogging and interacting [insert appropriate emoji to convey my precise emotional response to this. Editor: there isn’t one! System Failure! LOLZ 😛 ]. Being back at work also provides another challenge: how to find […] […]
Mindfulness has become a bit of a buzzword these days. When I first started meditating last year, I struggled with the idea of mindfulness of the breath. Deep breathing can be useful when I’m feeling tense or anxious, but as an anchor for mindfulness, I just felt bored. I don’t expect mindfulness to be entertaining, […] […]
Mindfulness helps us overcome anxiety. We are anxious about the future and what is going to happen to us, to our loved ones, to our communities. We live in a fast-pace environment that have us react and behave in “auto-pilot” mode. We worry about things that may never happen; then, our racing thoughts […]
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