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Feeling Anxious? Just Breathe.
Using the Breath in Times of Anxiety
A focus on the breath can be helpful when we are feeling anxious. Try this guided meditation where we notice the breath to help us connect to the present moment and then explore several strategies for changing how we breathe (and therefore changing how we feel).
We’re focusing on the breath mindfully through just noticing what’s happening, and then also using the breath to change the way our bodies are experiencing what’s happening in our lives. So we can either observe the breath or actually manipulate the breath. And either way, we notice the impact that has on our bodies.
At the end of the article, you’ll find a link to the meditation video.
Meditation Transcript
What I like to do is to actually start meditations with a little bit of movement, because what that does is to almost serve as a little bit of a reward for meditating because it feels good. So as we kind of come into a meditative posture, which is something that allows you to be upright but not overly relaxed or overly rigid, it’s helpful to have both feet on the floor.
And if you’re comfortable closing your eyes, I’ll invite you to do that because it does help to kind of reduce the visual stimulation that you receive through…