![]() It could be a chair or cushion on the floor. These feelings go a long way in mitigating the frequency and intensity of anxiety. Studies have also shown that anxiety sufferers who turn to guided meditation have reported increased feelings of control, an increased sense of a general well-being, as well as an increase in overall optimism. With guided meditation, we have a tool that we can turn to and use to more effectively deal with anxiety. Usually, dealing with it can mean stressing about it, which only serves to exacerbate the feelings and situation. Often, when a panic attack or wave of anxiety comes, we don’t know how to deal with it. Meditation for anxiety also gives people a technique and tool to cope and deal with anxiety and even panic attacks as they happen. The volunteers had four 20 minute sessions and reported a reduction in anxiety by as much as 39%. The study showed that when the volunteers with no previous meditation experience reported anxiety relief, the anterior cingulate cortex and ventromedial prefrontal cortex (areas which control emotions and worrying respectively) were activated. In a study done by Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, brain scans showed which areas of the brain were activated and deactivated by volunteers suffering from anxiety, when they practiced mindfulness meditation. This acceptance can help us suffer less than we suffer. ![]() It may not make anxiety go away, but it may help you make friends with this anxiety, especially if it’s a diagnosed condition that you will just need to live with. A regular meditation practice can help us change our relationship to anxiety. We don’t need to become identified with our thoughts or become overwhelmed by them. This allows us to control the way we see and react to our anxiety, instead of allowing our anxiety to control us. Instead, a regular meditation practice trains us to be present. The common thing most people do when a thought enters their mind is to follow it, judge it, dwell on it, and become lost in it. Guided meditation for anxiety helps us observe our thoughts and emotions without judgement. It’s there when you’re experiencing bouts of anxiety and need to calm down, and it’s there when you carve out some time to practice mindfulness to be more prepared for life. Meditation is both maintenance and a treatment. This practice is also known as mindfulness, which again, trains our brain to be present by focusing our attention away from thinking and into things that ground us into the present such as breathing and physical sensations. ![]() Meditation for anxiety is a distinct, guided experience that allows us to practice becoming more present, as well as provide a technique to deal with thoughts and the reality that is our busy and active mind. ![]() Even though nothing may be happening to us physically at that very moment, we still may feel unsure or anxious about the future as a result of our thinking. Often, we allow ourselves to follow these thoughts and even become these thoughts. Sometimes these are pleasant thoughts, but many times these can be worries, stressful thoughts, anxious feelings, and anxiety. ![]() We have a habit of allowing thoughts to enter our mind and follow them. Meditation teaches us to be more conscious of the present and less in our heads. ![]()
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