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Mindfulness-based stress reduction, or MBSR, for anxiety is much more than just a long, official-sounding, somewhat intimidating name. MBSR is an accessible process that helps people of all ages, beliefs, and backgrounds turn stress and struggles like anxiety into positive change for their lives. Developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn in 1979, MBSR is a program that uses mindfulness to enhance wellbeing. In doing that, MBSR reduces stress and anxiety when they interfere in your life. Whether or not you participate in a formal program, you can use MBSR to rein in your anxiety and stress.
Put your anxiety relief into your own hands with do-it-yourself (DIY) mindfulness tools. Make some objects to add to your growing toolbox of strategies to lower your anxiety. An anxiety toolbox refers to techniques you use to reduce anxiety, both in the immediate moment and long term. Some tools are actual objects, such as a jar of bubbles to foster slow, deep breathing. Other comfort objects reduce anxiety as well. Here are three mindfulness tools you can make for DIY anxiety relief.
Mindfulness is a terrific tool for anxiety. It’s more than a mere tool, however. Mindfulness is a way of experiencing yourself and the world that allows you to live fully and completely without anxiety getting in your head and in your way.Mindfulness is many things. Mindfulness is
being present in the moment, right here and right now;
focusing on what’s around you to pull your thoughts away from the anxious ones in your head;
attending to all your senses so you feel and experience things other than the physical symptoms of anxiety;
letting yourself be as you are without fighting with and getting tangled in anxiety;
living in the present, ready to live fully without anxiety being at the forefront of your thoughts and emotions.