Anxiety Archive

Mindfulness Breathing Exercises: Guide to Techniques and Benefits

Here are 6 mindfulness breathing exercises to help you reduce stress, improve sleep, uplift mood, and boost brain performance. Check it now!

A Relieving Anxiety Meditation Script

Settle into calm with this soothing anxiety meditation script, an affirmation practice for personal use or for guiding others. Download and use today.

A Negative Thoughts Meditation for Peace of Mind

Enhance peace of mind with this negative thoughts meditation script. A practice to help you relate to difficult thoughts with space, ease, and flow.

A Gratitude Meditation to Relieve Anxiety

Lead others in a gratitude meditation for anxiety using this guided meditation script, which gently turns attention to what is going well in the present moment.

A Compassion Meditation Script to Ease Anxiety

Quiet anxious thoughts with this compassion meditation script. Use this guided script for your own wellbeing or to support others develop theirs.

Let Go of Thoughts and Let Go of Anxiety

A short guided meditation script for letting go of anxious thoughts, picturing them as clouds or bubbles while you rest your attention on the breath.

Guided Meditation for Stress and Anxiety Script

Ease into calm with this guided breathing meditation for anxiety. Suitable for personal practice and professional mindfulness teaching.

Learn to Let Go With A Meditation for Worry

Worry and regret keep us from the present, what if we just let them go? This guided meditation for worry uses visualization to help us return to the now.

A Thought Meditation Script

Discover the space that exists behind your thoughts with this thought meditation for inner peace. Suitable for personal use and for mindfulness teachers.

Soothing Anxiety with Breath Awareness

Soothing Anxiety with Breath Awareness. A five-minute breath awareness practice that gives a worried mind one simple job to do.

Softening Anxiety by Grounding in the Present Moment

Softening Anxiety by Grounding in the Present Moment. A guided practice for coming back from worry about the past or future to the breath and body.

Soothing Anxiety With Awareness

Soothing Anxiety with Awareness. We’re not always aware of our own anxiety. The first step in feeling better is to notice what we’re feeling.

Easing Anxiety by Remembering Impermanence

Easing Anxiety by Remembering Impermanence. All things change, including anxiety. A short guided reflection on how much has already changed in your life.

Feeling Strong and Confident

Feeling Strong and Confident. Allow yourself to feel strong and confident. When you begin doubting yourself, return back to the strong you.

Feeling Your Body and Mind as a Lake

Feeling Your Body and Mind as a Lake. To reduce anxiety, make yourself comfortable lying down on your bed or the floor, or wherever you can be comfortable.

Notice and Accept Your Body in the Present Moment

Notice and Accept Your Body in the Present Moment. Be in your body fully and to get to know how it’s feeling right now with your attention and awareness.

Finding Peace Amidst a Global Scare

Finding peace amidst our uncertainty is possible. Through mindful awareness – we can equip ourselves that will help us to manage the weight of the times.

8 Mindfulness Exercises For Dealing with COVID-19

Eight free mindfulness exercises for steadying the mind and body during COVID-19 or any uncertain, stressful stretch, plus tips for handling the news and staying connected.

How to Meditate Into Sleep

7 Mindfulness Exercises for Relaxation. Exploring a variety of mindfulness exercises for relaxation can help us to truly feel what it means to be at peace.

Resolving Internal Conflict

Tony Robbins explains often, the conflicts we have, are between our conscious & unconscious mind, between our mind & our heart.

Shopping Mindfully

Shopping Mindfully. Within the busyness of shopping, this meditation activity gives you a setting to practice mindfulness when the store feels stressful.

Stopping Obsessive Thoughts About The Past

Stopping Obsessive Thoughts About The Past. This mindfulness practice helps you see rumination patterns clearly, respond to them with patient understanding.

Understanding Your Emotions

Understanding Your Emotions. This meditation script is designed to visualize emotions and understand them with their physical sensations & thought patterns.

10 Sleep Meditation Scripts

7 Mindfulness Exercises for Relaxation. Exploring a variety of mindfulness exercises for relaxation can help us to truly feel what it means to be at peace.

9 Guided Meditation Scripts for Anxiety

7 Mindfulness Exercises for Relaxation. Exploring a variety of mindfulness exercises for relaxation can help us to truly feel what it means to be at peace.

Stress Relief With Breathing

Stress Relief with Breathing. This meditation helps to heighten our awareness of the effect of negative thinking. It explores the power of the breath…

7 Mindfulness Exercises for Relaxation

Seven free mindfulness exercises for relaxation, plus a look at the relaxation response, what gets in the way of relaxing, and five simple habits that may help.

9 Mindfulness Exercises for Anxiety

An estimated 264 million people live with some type of anxiety disorder. Mindfulness meditation can help. Here are 9 mindfulness exercises for anxiety.

The Desire to be Well-Informed Vs. the Desire to Stay Sane

In the conflict of desires to be well-informed vs. to stay sane, losing your focus is easy. Maintain your inner sanity through the practice of equanimity.

Explore the Power of Chakra Mantras: Healing Meditation Music for All 7 Chakras Mantra

If you enjoy soothing sounds to meditate to, try our Chakra Seed Mantras Meditation Music. These chants, traditionally used for healing, focus on all 7 chakras.

Mantras for Deep Inner Peace

Eight traditional mantras for deep inner peace, chanted to calm the mind. Use them as background music while you meditate, practice yoga or relax.

Mark Williams on Mindfulness

Is mindfulness the answer to all our prayers? Professor Mark Williams of the University of Oxford takes to our pulpit to explore the science behind it.

How Do We Stop Excessive Thinking?

Eckhart Tolle on stepping out of constant thinking by coming back to the senses and the present moment.

Transforming Anxiety

An easy to follow mindfulness exercise for those who need help in eliminating anxiety from daily life and re-establishing one’s sense of calm.

Guided Meditation For Anxiety and Stress

This Guided Meditation for anxiety and detachment from over-thinking will help you be relaxed and concentrated through the day.

Key To Stopping Self-Talk In The Head [Video]

Are you self-talking in the head? In this video, Eckhart Tolle says the key to stopping self-talk in the head is to have a glimpse of awareness.

• Mark Coleman

Guided Meditation on Working With the Inner Critic

Do you sometimes feel that you’re your own worst critic? In this guided meditation, Mark Coleman helps us understand how to stop the cycle of judgment.

Guided Meditation For Anxiety & Stress, Beginning Meditation

Do you find yourself overthinking things? This guided meditation for anxiety and stress will help alleviate your tendency towards overthinking.

Scheduling Worry Time

Minimize the pull of your worries by scheduling a daily worry time, allowing you to increase your control over where you direct your attention.

Like the Ocean Floor

We are often caught up in a stormy sea of stress & anxiety. This mindfulness exercise will help you become the pebble that sinks beneath the chaotic waves.

Letting Go of Limiting Stories

A mindfulness exercise for examining the stories you currently believe about yourself, others, or the world, and noticing which ones may be limiting you.

Full Body Awareness

A body scan practice that invites you to notice how each part of the body feels, as a way to ground yourself when stress has you in your head. Includes a free printable worksheet.

Establishing Safety

This practice offers five ways to build a sense of safety so attention can turn from outer threats toward inner wellbeing, with a note on when to seek more support.

Mindfulness, Self-Compassion & PTSD Symptoms

This study suggests that interventions aimed at increasing mindfulness and self-compassion could potentially decrease functional disability in returning war veterans with PTSD symptoms.

Monkey Mind Meditation

A mindfulness worksheet for noticing the restless “monkey mind” and meeting it with curiosity and kindness.

Big Mind [Audio]

Your mind has limitless space and capacity to accommodate virtually everything. It’s open like the sky, but it’s imbued, it’s filled with intelligence.

Overcoming Jealousy

If you want to overcome jealousy, try these 3 ideas: determine where the feeling is coming from; remember your strength; love the person you’re with more.

How Do I Manage Self-Expectations?

Eckhart Tolle explains how anger management can help you manage expectations of myself, arguing that powerlessness is always behind anger.

Meditation for Anxiety & Depression

Anxiety & depression impact millions of people. This guided meditation can help ease both by softening your tendency to overthink.

Three 60-Second Meditation Techniques for Anxiety

Meditating for anxiety isn’t easy. That’s why we created some useful tips and tools to bring mindfulness into your most anxious moments. Ever have one of those days? An earworm of worry wriggles into your head before your feet even hit the floor. You spill your hot coffee, which means you have […]

• Tara Brach

Mindful Movement – Guided Exercises [Audio]

Mindfulness is for everyone. Listen to this audio meditation and join along with Tara Brach. Mindful Movement – Guided Exercises. [ai_playlist id=”196300″] Mindful Movement Guided Meditation, by Tara Brach: Two weeks of movements will do. I guess, as anything else, to practice our mindfulness, we start simply sitting, ___ upright posture. Allows you settle in […]

Big Mind Meditation [Audio]

Big Mind Meditation, by Howard Cohn: I’d like to do a guided meditation, and you could call this Taking off the Training Wheels even though hopefully my voice will provide a little bit of support. But for this particular guided meditation, it’s helpful if you can find a posture that you can remain relatively still. […]

How to Deal with Jealous People

Brendon Burchard shares four ideas for dealing with jealous people while staying steady on your path. How do you handle the jealous people in your life, and can you stay grounded while you do?

Mindful Journaling – Mindfulness Worksheet

This Journaling Mindfulness Exercise will guide you on how to reflect on some of the wonderful things that you are grateful for in the past day, few days, or week.

Delta Binaural Beats – Dissolve Overthinking

A guided sleep meditation with a delta binaural beat from PowerThoughts Meditation Club. The creators describe it as a calming bedtime ritual for people who struggle to sleep.

The I’s of Your Identity

The i’s of your identity. This mindfulness exercise brings your thought to discern and know more about your identity. This activity increases awareness.

Recurring Thoughts

Recurring Thoughts: a free mindfulness worksheet to download as a PDF and work through at your own pace.

Why Are You Withholding?

Why Are You Withholding?: a free mindfulness worksheet to download as a PDF and work through at your own pace.

Sizing Up Your Mechanical Reactions

Sizing Up Your Mechanical Reactions: a free mindfulness worksheet to download as a PDF and work through at your own pace.

Getting to Know the “I’s” You Identify With

Getting to Know the “I’s” You Identify With: a free mindfulness worksheet to download as a PDF and work through at your own pace.

Get Back in Your Body

Qoya is based on the idea through movement, we remember. We remember our essence is wise, wild and free. Using movement as metaphor and infusing movement with meaning, the words wise, wild, and free are not only archetypical energies that we all possess, but these words also draw reference to the movement forms we practice. […]