Stress 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!

Noting to Develop Non-Judgment Meditation Script

The practice of noting can help us become aware of judgments as they arise. In this non-judgment meditation script we use noting to soften reactivity.

An Emotional Release Meditation Script

Use this guided meditation to release emotions. Download it for free to help let go of overwhelming, strong emotions, or use it to guide someone else.

Mindfulness for Anger: 3 Mindfulness Exercises for Anger Management

There’s nothing wrong with anger. It’s our reaction to it that can potentially be deadly. When we practice mindfulness for anger, we see anger as a useful human emotion that can help us set healthy boundaries, protect loved ones from danger, or act pro-socially in the face of injustice. Chiefly, mindfulness for anger helps us […]

Alleviate Stress with 3 Deep Breaths

Guide yourself or others through three deep breaths and alleviate your stress. Use this meditation script for your personal or professional practice.

Why Stress Creates Erectile Dysfunction

Learn how meditation can help manage erectile dysfunction. Discover step-by-step practices to reduce stress and anxiety for a healthier sex life.

Mindfulness Body Scan for Stress Relief

Mindfulness Body Scan for Stress Relief. The intent is to use progressive muscle relaxation and awareness to reach a deep state of ease.

Mindfulness When You Drive

Mindfulness When You Drive. Driving can be a time of stress, autopilot, or downright rage. It’s a prime opportunity to cultivate mindfulness.

Mindfulness While Being Creative

Mindfulness While Being Creative. Creativity can boost self-awareness, relieve stress, and help you solve problems more easily. Cultivate mindfulness.

Mindfulness While Waiting In Line

Mindfulness While Waiting In Line. Waiting is an unavoidable fact of life. Often, when we’re waiting (in traffic, in DMV) we grow impatient or frustrated.

8 Mindfulness Exercises For Dealing with COVID-19

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.

Healing Trauma Through Mindfulness and Yoga

In yoga studios around the world, millions of people are stretching, breathing and practicing stress reduction. Without knowing it, they might also be healing from traumatic events. For millennia, yogis have used this ancient philosophy as a way of harnessing emotions and regulating mental and physical health. While many yoga students are already using yoga […]

Relieving Low Amounts Of Stress

Relieving Low Amounts of Stress. We all get stressed daily but sometimes we aren’t even aware that we are stressed. This session focuses to relieve that.

Relieving Stress With SBNRR (Stop, Breathe, Notice, Reflect & Respond)

Relieving Stress with SBNRR. In this meditation, we’ll practice cultivating a sense of ease, openness, and space even around difficult emotions.

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…

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.

• Jack Kornfield

How To Move Through Difficulties As A Transformative Initiation

A talk by Jack Kornfield on how transformative initiation can help us honor the importance of the difficulties that we experience and move through them.

The Best Of Mozart – Slowed Down @ 432Hz

Enjoy the best piano sonatas by Mozart specially recorded at the natural frequency of the Cosmos, 432Hz, for a unique healing effect on the body and mind.

Indian Flute Meditation Music

Let the positive vibes of our Indian flute meditation music become part of your morning yoga and meditation routine. Featuring Raag Ahir Bhairav.

Easy Yoga For Beginners

This 20-minute easy yoga workout is perfect for beginners who like a slow-paced exercise. Stretch & relax your entire body at the start or end of your day.

Calming Peaceful Music

Relax. Let go of the stress & tension & fall asleep better & faster with the soothing sounds of our calming peaceful music & meditation by Jason Stephenson.

What You Practice Grows Stronger

Ready to make positive changes in your life? Through the power of mindfulness taught by Dr. Shauna Shapiro, learn to let go of any burden & become happier.

Letting Go: Spoken Word Guided Visualization

Bad or old habits, thought patterns, trauma and the like become easier to let go of with this gentle yet firm guided visualization exercise.

Secrets to Developing Emotional Mastery

Valuable tips from Brendon Burchard that will allow you to to gain better control over your emotions and how this can improve daily living

Ram Dass with Eckhart Tolle

Ram Dass and Eckhart Tolle get together for the 1st time on the same stage to talk about spiritual awakening as well as the transformation of consciousness.

• Jack Kornfield

Guided Meditation with Jack Kornfield

This 45-minute guided meditation audio clip by Jack Kornfield is designed to help you recenter and reestablish your equilibrium, serenity, and calmness.

5 Ways to Overcome Adversity

Brendon Burchard shares 5 great ideas that will help a lot if you need to overcome adversity in life so you can rise up to the challenges that you face.

20 minute Guided Mindfulness Exercise

A 20 Minute Guided Mindfulness exercise, designed to help calm a busy mind at the end of the day. It is suggested that this be done sitting upright position

Full Spectrum Mindfulness

A talk on full spectrum mindfulness. The video presents a great discussion on the waking-up practice, how it’s done and interpreted in different ways.

Breath Awareness Meditation

Breath awareness meditation promotes physical & mental relaxation that can significantly reduce stress on the body and mind. Try our worksheet!

Transforming Anger

To begin Mindfulness Exercise on Transforming Anger, this worksheet will be useful to increase awareness and give ideas to bring about transformation.

Do You Cry? Is It Normal To Cry?

Eckhart Tolle says it’s normal to cry and talks about some of the things that make him cry. He also discusses joyful crying vs. dysfunctional crying.

Dealing With Anger, Resistance And Pessimism

How do we deal with anger, resistance and pessimism? Eckhart Tolle says the key is to catch what he calls the painbody at an early stage.

Detachment From Over-Thinking [Video]

Follow our guided mindfulness meditation so you can have a relaxed, quieter and calmer mind and detach yourself from over-thinking patterns.

Stress Eating

Psychological stress caused by feelings of anxiety affects our lives in many ways that we don’t see. It affects sleep patterns, relationships and health.

Sky Gazing

Connect to reality and awareness by following this mindfulness exercise on sky gazing. Simply look at the sky and allow yourself to dissolve into it.

Loving-Kindness

Lovingkindness is a meditation technique that will enhance your feelings of unconditional love towards other people. It will also help you to love yourself.

Grounding Meditation

This Free Script for Grounding Meditation will help you to be in touch with your sensory experience at the present moment.

Emotional Awareness Meditation

Dealing with uncomfortable emotional states can be challenging. This emotional awareness meditation will help you increase mindfulness, resilience and calm.

Standing Up for Yourself

Standing up for yourself. In what ways did you push back in relationships, conversations, meetings? How did you feel? Discover now.

Basic Relaxation Meditation

This basic relaxation meditation is a meditation that encourages physical and mental relaxation. It helps reduce the effects of stress on the body and mind.

Working with a Nightmare

Working with a nightmare is a powerful way to reconnect with the “juice” of life. It can relieve anxiety and reawaken us to the beauty of each moment.

Transforming Ill Will

Through a collection of techniques and gentle reminders, you can change ill will into goodwill. Transform ill will into goodwill with this technique.

Tracking Your Mood

Tracking of your moods in a log can help you reflect on the factors and situations that affect your emotions. Do this a few times a day.

The Power of Music

Experience the healing power of music by trying the following strategies and discover how they change your experience of pain, stress, or anxiety.

Being Positive

Being positive in your life with mindfulness exercises can help you to increase the ability to distinguish between positive or negative impact in life.

How Do I Respond To Another’s Pain-Body?

According to Eckhart Tolle, dealing with somebody else’s pain-body sometimes requires removing yourself for a while to allow the episode to subside.

Overcoming Anxious Thoughts

You can overcome your anxiety by estimating the real odds that your anxious thoughts will become a reality and then formulating a coping plan.

Problem Solving

In this mindfulness exercise, practice effective problem-solving in 2 steps: define your problem clearly and then brainstorm some possible solutions.

Managing and Mitigating Stress

Be a smart stress avoider. Get as creative as you can about managing or avoiding stress using our stress avoidance mindfulness worksheet.

Mindfulness Training as a Clinical Intervention

This review suggests that mindfulness training as a clinical intervention may be helpful in the treatment of chronic pain and several other disorders.

Nature Walks

In this mindfulness exercise, you’ll discover how nature walks can help you relax and lower your stress, depression, and anxiety levels.

Mindful Pause

Mindful pause exercise stresses the importance of taking a moment to stop what you are doing so you can check how you are feeling & become more focused.

Hand Warming Visualization

In this mindfulness exercise on Warm Hands Visualization, you will imagine warming up your hands and feet as a relaxation technique for reducing stress.

Breathing Into Tension

This mindfulness exercise provides guidance on the Breathing Into Stress Detox practice, which helps release tension and stress that builds up in the body.

The Sound of Nature

This mindfulness exercise helps you find calm and peace from stress by turning down the volume with Nature and bringing Nature and silence together.

Squeezing and Releasing Stress

Squeeze out stress with this mindfulness exercise by tensing and squeezing each part of your body into a ball as you do belly breathing.

Meditation to Help Relieve Anxiety and Stress [Video]

This is a mindfulness meditation with Josh Wise. This meditation will help you connect with your breath. Relax. Let go of stress. Release anxiety.

Humor Therapy

Laughter enhances our quality of life. This mindfulness exercise includes a meditation that you can practice whenever you need humor therapy.

Acts of Kindness

This ‘We’ Cure practice focuses on the power of being a benefactor. Benefactors are people who have the best interests of others in their hearts and minds.

Mindfulness of Laughter

Download “Mindfulness of Laughter” by entering your name and email below:DOWNLOAD NOW Enjoyment signals include the Duchenne (authentic) smile, activation of a smile (lip corners pulled obliquely up), and activation of the orbital eye muscles that tighten the lower eyelid and create wrinkling around the outer eye corners (especially with age). Enjoyment also includes vocal […]

Boosting Mood with Music

Did you know that music is capable of altering your mood? In this mindfulness exercise, you’ll begin to learn how music can change the way that you feel.

Compassionately Questioning Negative Thoughts

This mindfulness exercise will guide you towards disputing negative thoughts and replacing them with positive ones to enhance your sense of wellbeing.

Emotional Validation

Processing and understanding emotions can be difficult. This free mindfulness exercise for emotional validation can help you clarify and process them.

Cultivating Childlike Wonder

This mindfulness exercise on the Here and Now Pleasantness practice helps you to be more aware and present in your surroundings & turn off your auto-pilot.

Controlled Breathing

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How Does it Feel to Lack a Sense of Boundaries?

This study discusses the phenomenological nature of the sense of boundaries (SB), based on a person’s experience with long-term mindfulness meditation.

Ken Wilber – Big Mind Meditation

The simple recognition of I-Amness is an infallible recognition of ever-present awareness, of ever-present Big Mind. I-Amness is your authentic pure Self.

Visualizing Ease

You will learn to use the power of visualization, or mental rehearsal, to find a greater sense of calm when faced with a situation that is distressing.

Rating Anxiety in the Body

By Sensing and Rating Anxiety in the Body, you can be present with it and cope with it in a healthy way. The practice of noticing sensations takes time.

Art Therapy

Immersing into the art process allows us to enter a meditative state where relaxation and unconscious expression can thrive. Try our online worksheet!

List of Top Stress Relief, Relaxation & Meditation Blogs

The 55 Best Stress Relief, Relaxation and Meditation Blogs of 2019. Includes Primal Therapeutics, Thai Healing Massage, EkhartYoga, Simple Mindfulness.

• Dr. Dan Siegel

Wheel Of Awareness [Video]

Watch this video Wheel of Awareness by Dan Siegel – A dhamma talk on how to work with thoughts and emotions in our meditation practice. Wheel of Awareness, Published on Sep 17, 2013 A dhamma talk on how to work with thoughts and emotions in our meditation practice. “The truth of suffering is to be […]

The Nature of Aversion [Audio]

About Kate Munding: Kate Munding is co-guiding teacher of IMCB. She has been practicing since 2002 and has done numerous 1-2 month intensive practice periods. Kate is currently in Spirit Rock’s Teacher Training program. Kate has also trained approximately 2,000 educators, therapists, and parents in mindful awareness techniques and philosophy in the U.S. and abroad. […]

Working with Judgments

Further Reading: Free Guided Meditation ScriptsMindfulness practice helps us to quiet the mind, naturally encouraging us to relate to the world through our intuition and through our direct senses. It empowers us to enhance our lives in healthy ways, so the benefits of such practices are infinite. Guided meditations provide a framework for this honest […]

Meditation For Stress & Anxiety Relief

Try this 10 minute guided meditation for stress and anxiety relief if you’ve had a stressful day or are simply exhausted, A ten minute guided meditation for stress and anxiety release. Shot at the Xanadu Villa in Cap Estate, St. Lucia. Overlooking Pigeon Island National Park. The wonders and power of taking the time in […]

What Is Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction?

Since 1979, thousands of people have flocked to an eight-week course called Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (also known as MBSR). What is MBSR? Simply put, it is a course of study where people learn to become more mindful of themselves and their emotions. By becoming self-aware, people can heal the problems in both their physical […]

Brain on Mindfulness: No More Questions, Your Honor

Remember when the Japanese were in the news, because their businessmen were so stressed out that they were having heart attacks left and right? Lately, Americans seem to be in the same boat: taking no time for themselves, focusing on their work to the exclusion of all else, and allowing stress to affect their health. […]

• Tara Brach

Mindfulness of the Breath [Audio]

A talk on mindful breathing by Tara Brach: Letting this be a conscious pause, bring your presence and attention to right here. I invite you to bring a listening attention to the heart. Sometimes, we haven’t really visited or connected with our heart, in hours, days, or sometimes longer. So just check in and sense the […]

The Problem with Over-Friendly People

Friendliness is a great virtue, but over-friendliness can be a social disaster. If you are one of the over friendly people, this video is for you. Friendliness is a great virtue. Over-friendliness can be an unexpected problem. For gifts and more from The School of Life, visit our online shop: https://goo.gl/81j1IRJoin our exclusive mailing list: […]

The Gift of Rest

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Exercising Mindfully

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What Are You Avoiding

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What is Most Nurturing and Stressful for You

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What are Your Feelings

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Sensing Into Your Strongest Experiences

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Noticing Intrusions

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Measuring Your Presence

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Feeling Knocked Off Balance

Download “Feeling Knocked Off Balance” by entering your name and email below:DOWNLOAD NOW Integrating Ways of Being Consider the different ways we can experience life – different aspects of our being that help us function… until they don’t. We can be cerebral and goal oriented, for instance, or we can be predominantly kinesthetic, placing the […]

Creating Complexity

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Learning to Live More Positively

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Practicing the Art of Resolving Conflicts

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Taking Care of Yourself

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Reducing Holiday Stress

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Monitoring Stress Reduction

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How To Be Mindful of Physical Pain

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How to Untie Mental Knots

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Understanding Your Self-Pity

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Sourcing Where Your Self-Judgment Comes From

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