8 Mini Meditations to Banish Stress from Your Brain

What calm people know about stress

Two people perform the exact same job under the same conditions, yet one is stressed, overwhelmed, and hates his job; the other is happy and breezes through his day. How can this be? The latest studies in neuroscience show us that stress-related behaviors are hard-wired into the brain—they’re less about our environment, but more about how we individually react to it. When people in various high-pressure organizations tried meditation for stress, more than 90 percent experienced a change in their stress levels; more than 75 percent experienced improvement in creative problem solving, well being, and work and family relationships. Here are some ways to use meditation for stress that you can start now to train your mind to react to stress with calmness and clarity. Here are some more habits you should steal from naturally calm people.

This excerpt was taken from The End of Stress by Don Joseph Goewey, reprinted with permission of Beyond Word Publishing/Atria Books, Hillsboro, Oregon.

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