Managing Anxiety with Mindfulness For Dummies is a practical guide to overcoming your worries and minimising anxiety using mindfulness techniques. The National Health Service and the National Institute for Care and Excellence recommend mindfulness as a legitimate treatment for anxiety, and its also been proven to alleviate stress, depression, low self-esteem, and insomnia. This book explains the benefits of mindfulness, and how it can help you face your fears and defeat persistent, irrational worries. Learn how to break the anxiety cycle with an optimistic approach, live in the present moment, and manage your thoughts using the fundamental techniques of mindfulness therapy. This friendly guide will accompany you every step of the way as you understand your anxiety, identify solutions to your problem, maintain your gains, and avoid relapse.
Over three million people in the UK suffer from Generalised Anxiety Disorder, with millions more experiencing phobias, OCD, and panic disorders. Anxiety is potentially debilitating, but many people are daunted by navigating the health system and thus fail to seek treatment. This book provides a way for you to begin managing your symptoms at home, using simple techniques that can help change the way you think, feel, and act.
Understand what anxiety is, and the common causes
Employ mindful self-compassion to alleviate symptoms
Discover mindful attitudes and practise mindful mediation
Transform unhealthy habits into anxiety-busting self-care
Mindfulness can help you break free of the downward spiral of negative thought and action, and make positive choices that support your wellbeing. If you're tired of being anxious and long for a brighter outlook, Managing Anxiety with Mindfulness For Dummies provides a wide range of effective techniques to help you enjoy a calmer and happier life.
Joelle Jane Marshall is a freelance speaker and mindfulness coach who works closely with fellow Mindfulness For Dummies coauthor Shamash Alidina on workshops for 'Mindfulness and Overcoming Fear'. She trained in mindfulness with Shamash and meditates and practices yoga regularly.
Don't panic!
Managing Anxiety with Mindfulness For Dummies is a
practical guide to overcoming your worries and minimising anxiety
using mindfulness techniques. The National Health Service and the
National Institute for Care and Excellence recommend mindfulness as
a legitimate treatment for anxiety, and its also been proven to
alleviate stress, depression, low self-esteem, and insomnia. This
book explains the benefits of mindfulness, and how it can help you
face your fears and defeat persistent, irrational worries. Learn
how to break the anxiety cycle with an optimistic approach, live in
the present moment, and manage your thoughts using the fundamental
techniques of mindfulness therapy. This friendly guide will
accompany you every step of the way as you understand your anxiety,
identify solutions to your problem, maintain your gains, and avoid
relapse.
Over three million people in the UK suffer from Generalised
Anxiety Disorder, with millions more experiencing phobias, OCD, and
panic disorders. Anxiety is potentially debilitating, but many
people are daunted by navigating the health system and thus fail to
seek treatment. This book provides a way for you to begin managing
your symptoms at home, using simple techniques that can help change
the way you think, feel, and act.
* Understand what anxiety is, and the common causes
* Employ mindful self-compassion to alleviate symptoms
* Discover mindful attitudes and practise mindful mediation
* Transform unhealthy habits into anxiety-busting self-care
Mindfulness can help you break free of the downward spiral of
negative thought and action, and make positive choices that support
your wellbeing. If you're tired of being anxious and long for a
brighter outlook, Managing Anxiety with Mindfulness For
Dummies provides a wide range of effective techniques to help
you enjoy a calmer and happier life.
Autorentext
Joelle Jane Marshall is a freelance speaker and mindfulness coach who works closely with fellow Mindfulness For Dummies coauthor Shamash Alidina on workshops for 'Mindfulness and Overcoming Fear'. She trained in mindfulness with Shamash and meditates and practices yoga regularly.
Zusammenfassung
Don't panic!
Managing Anxiety with Mindfulness For Dummies is a practical guide to overcoming your worries and minimising anxiety using mindfulness techniques. The National Health Service and the National Institute for Care and Excellence recommend mindfulness as a legitimate treatment for anxiety, and its also been proven to alleviate stress, depression, low self-esteem, and insomnia. This book explains the benefits of mindfulness, and how it can help you face your fears and defeat persistent, irrational worries. Learn how to break the anxiety cycle with an optimistic approach, live in the present moment, and manage your thoughts using the fundamental techniques of mindfulness therapy. This friendly guide will accompany you every step of the way as you understand your anxiety, identify solutions to your problem, maintain your gains, and avoid relapse.
Over three million people in the UK suffer from Generalised Anxiety Disorder, with millions more experiencing phobias, OCD, and panic disorders. Anxiety is potentially debilitating, but many people are daunted by navigating the health system and thus fail to seek treatment. This book provides a way for you to begin managing your symptoms at home, using simple techniques that can help change the way you think, feel, and act.
- Understand what anxiety is, and the common causes
- Employ mindful self-compassion to alleviate symptoms
- Discover mindful attitudes and practise mindful mediation
- Transform unhealthy habits into anxiety-busting self-care
Mindfulness can help you break free of the downward spiral of negative thought and action, and make positive choices that support your wellbeing. If you're tired of being anxious and long for a brighter outlook, Managing Anxiety with Mindfulness For Dummies provides a wide range of effective techniques to help you enjoy a calmer and happier life.
Leseprobe
Chapter 1
Peering into the World of Anxiety
In This Chapter
Finding out what anxiety is
Exploring the effects of anxiety
Using mindfulness to tackle anxiety
Anxiety is very common. Everyone experiences some form of anxiety on a day-to-day basis. It can be a helpful emotion, making you focused, alert and productive, but it can also be incredibly upsetting, uncomfortable and hard to live with.
In this chapter, I describe the nature, experience and symptoms of anxiety, show how it can affect your body and mind and help you discern whether your levels of anxiety are severe or normal. I also introduce you to mindfulness - what it involves and how it can help when battling anxiety - including a short mindfulness exercise for you to try.
Comparing Fear, Excitement and Anxiety
Fear, excitement and anxiety are all common emotions. All three can conjure the same feelings, but crucial differences exist between them. Fear and excitement can be helpful emotions, whereas anxiety can sometimes result in a lot of discomfort. In this section, I explain the differences between these three feelings.
Investigating fear
Fear is a natural emotion, as is anxiety. In fact, fear raises the same feelings that anxiety can, such as alarm or apprehension. The difference is that with fear, these feelings have a reason behind them.
Fear is a feeling of terror, …