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Loving Kindness Meditation for Challenging Times 0

This version of the ancient loving-kindness meditation known as Metta has four simple short phrases that seem perfect for getting through our current challenges. The phrases speak to safety, happiness, health, and ease of mind. All things that we are worried about in the midst of the COVID-19 dangers, unknowns, and changes. 

Loving-kindness meditation appears in different variations, but the intention and basic simplicity are consistent across different forms. It has the potential of relieving your stress, calming your anxiety, and lifting you up in everyday situations and in challenging times. 

9 Best Essential Oils for Relieving Anxiety, Stress and Insomnia 2

Aromatherapy with specific calming essential oils is one of the most common natural remedies for anxiety. Stress-reducing essential oils may help on their own or be a great addition to any other anti-anxiety approaches you are using. Research backs-up the use of aromatherapy for relieving stress, anxiety, PTSD, depression, and more.

Read on to learn:

• which essential oils are best for reducing stress and anxiety,
• how they work,
• research results, and
• what to look for when buying essential oils.

Best Forms of Magnesium Supplements for Anxiety, Depression, and More 0

Low magnesium levels can get in the way of you dealing well with stress. It can cause increased anxiety and contribute to many ailments and health problems. 

Your body needs magnesium for hundreds of chemical reactions—including those that help you deal with stress—but most people don't have enough magnesium for those reactions to run smoothly. 

Many of my clients have seen fast improvement in their sleep quality, increased ability to deal with stress, less anxiety, reduced pain, and many other health benefits from supplementing with magnesium. 

What's in This Article

1. How Much Magnesium Per Day
2. Two Types of Magnesium Supplements
3. How to Use Transdermal Magnesium Supplements
4. Oral Magnesium Supplements (including 3 to avoid)
5. Who Should Not Take Magnesium Supplements

Magnesium Supplement Benefits for Anxiety, Depression and More 3

I've seen many of my clients experience anxiety relief, better sleep, pain reduction, and improved mood when they included magnesium in their supplement regimes. It has so many benefits that I use it regularly myself.

Magnesium is necessary for hundreds of chemical reactions in your body including reactions that are triggered in response to stress and those that lift your mood. You need magnesium to help you deal well with stress and stress burns through magnesium. It's a stress-magnesium double-bind. 

What's in this Article

1. How Magnesium Helps You Cope With Stress
2. Magnesium Anti-Anxiety Anti-Depression Research
3. Other Magnesium Health Benefits
4. References

3 Quick Relaxing Meditations to Relieve Anxiety and Stress 0

Click for 3 simple— and even fun— “meditations” that can help you quickly reduce your anxiety in stressful situations.

They involve breathing, smiling, and laughter. 

Calming Anxiety by Reducing It to Concern 0

Anxiety is heightened fear. Anxiety can grab your brain and make it spin. It is painful and it gets in the way of you dealing logically with whatever created the anxiety. 

Some people try to avoid anxiety by going to an oblivious or numb place. They pretend there's no problem. Pretending there's no problem isn't going to solve the problem either. 

Spinning won't make the problem go away and pretending there's no problem won't make the problem go away. The solution lies in between these two: concern.

Concern allows you to calmly examine the problem and deal with it.