How to deal with stress
Stress and anxiety are normal parts of life. There is the type of stress that we experience on a daily basis and if left unnoticed, it can pile up and up as we develop the habit of getting into negative thought patterns that materialize themselves in generalized anxiety for the world. We identify with our stress and get addicted to the thought cycles. Through the practice of mindfulness, we don't ever make stress go away, we just change our relationship with it. So, maybe when we start our practice of mindfulness we still fall into the repeating thought patterns that cause stress - or allow moments of stress to linger with us throughout the day. As we continue our practice, we start to see form a third person perspective our relationship with it and we can smile at ourselves. Continued practice allows us to break the cycle that our minds and habits may try to keep us in. Breathing in with the stress Breathing out, releasing the stress Breathing in, Breathing out. Notic...