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How to End Anxiety Through Meditation

Discover Serenity: Mastering Anxiety with Meditation and Natural Remedies

Katy Morin
3 min readApr 4, 2020

Multiple studies have reached the same conclusion when it comes to using meditation to manage anxiety. Mindfulness can help you to stop worrying.

Almost 2.4 Canadians experience Generalized Anxiety Disorder, and many more have occasional fretfulness bouts due to work or home pressures. While you can’t remove the stress from daily life, there are steps you can take to feel more at ease. Try these natural remedies.

Anxiety-Related Benefits of Meditation

Researchers have been studying how meditation affects a wide variety of health issues. The American Medical Association reported that meditation appears to be most effective in addressing anxiety, depression, and pain management.

1. Focus on now. Most anxiety tends to be centered on rehashing the past or anticipating the future. Meditation encourages you to engage fully with the present moment. Your attention switches from useless regrets and fears to constructive endeavors.

2. Connect with your body. Chronic anxiety affects your physical health through inflammation and other symptoms. Scanning your body reminds you to lower your shoulders and unfurrow your brow.

3. Change your brain. Meditation alters your brain so your contentment will grow. Stress hormones decrease, and serotonin levels rise. Gray matter enlarges, while the…

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Katy Morin
Katy Morin

Written by Katy Morin

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