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Grounding Techniques to Alleviate Anxious Thoughts
Grounding is a practice that can help you pull away from flashbacks, unwanted memories, and negative or challenging emotions.
Check out these physical, mental and soothing techniques to quiet anxious thoughts, from Healthline.
Come and Learn Mindfulness (CALM): Please join Kate Harrington for 20-minute virtual guided meditations to let go of stress through guided relaxation and mindfulness meditation. Everyone is welcome! CALM will meet on Days 5 and 7 (except for Wednesdays) at 9:40 a.m.
All sessions will be virtual, and there’s no verbal participation required, so you can join from anywhere— just hop on the call and relax! Click here to join. To learn more, please email Kate Harrington.
NOTE: On weeks where Day 5 or 7 falls on a Wednesday, CALM will be canceled for that day due to the altered schedule.
There are tons of great, free guided meditations to try! Mindfulness and meditation can really help us cope with uncertainty, boredom, and other difficult feelings!
In her new book, Tara Brach helps break a trail through the dense forest of anxiety with the practice of RAIN.
Insight meditation teacher Michele McDonald introduced the RAIN practice about 20 years ago, as a way to expand the common view that mindfulness is simply a synonym for paying attention. In identifying the qualities of attention that make up a complete moment of mindfulness, McDonald, who is cofounder of Vipassana Hawaii, coined the acronym RAIN for Recognition of what is going on; Acceptance of the experience, just as it is; Interest in what is happening; and Non-Identification to depersonalize the experience. Over the years, Tara Brach modified and popularized RAIN, shifting the “N” step to Nurture and suggesting non-identification as a product of her revised four steps.
Creator of "10% Happier" Dan Harris teaches how to meditate in five minutes.
Insight Timer: The #1 free meditation app. Guided meditations and talks led by the world's top meditation and mindfulness experts, neuroscientists, psychologists, and teachers from Stanford, Harvard, the University of Oxford, and more. Music tracks from world-renowned artists. Join millions learning to meditate on Insight Timer to help calm the mind, reduce anxiety, manage stress, sleep deeply, and improve happiness.
Medito: Free meditation app to improve your mental wellbeing with the help of guided meditations, breathing exercises, mindfulness practices, relaxing sounds, and more. Find guided and non-guided meditations from Medito Foundation and various other organizations such as UCLA, Dhamma talks, and Audio Dharma, all of which are based on ancient as well as recent meditation techniques.
Healthy Minds Program: Backed by four decades of research from world-renowned neuroscientist Dr. Richard Davidson and his team at the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin - Madison & Healthy Minds Innovations, the Healthy Minds Program trains your mind through meditation and podcast-style lessons to develop skills - to gain focus, reduce stress, and maintain positive social connections.
Meditation by Soothing Pod: Whether you have 2 minutes or 2 hours in your day, Soothing Pod can fit into any schedule and is easy to use, no matter your experience with guided meditation. Also find sleep stories, relaxing music, and sleep and nature sounds.
