If you suffer from anxiety, anger, fear, or overwhelm, or need to stop stress in its tracks, try tapping. Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), also known as tapping, is a powerful, evidence-based stress reduction tool for those flooded and stuck by high-intensity stressful feelings.

Our minds tend to tell stories, especially when we’re under stress. Mindfulness helps us detach from stressful thoughts and create a space between the thought, our interpretation of what it means, and our response.

If you suffer from anxiety, anger, fear, or overwhelm, or need to stop stress in its tracks, try tapping. Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), also known as tapping, is a powerful, evidence-based stress reduction tool for those flooded and stuck by high-intensity stressful feelings.

In addition to the usual college stressors, throw COVID into the mix, and anxiety levels increase exponentially. Extra stress caused by the effects of the pandemic and recent nationwide upheaval and unrest has left many students with high levels of anxiety and emotional exhaustion. But college students can achieve calm, well-being, and resilience through mindfulness.

The body scan is a foundational mindfulness practice, and it is one of my go-to favorites. I find it easier to practice than other mindfulness exercises because my body gets more relaxed when I do it, and it gets me out of my head and into my body more quickly.

In my teens to mid-twenties, I knew the thoughts and turbulent emotions that my mind produced were the cause of my great distress – anxiety, depression and a constant feeling of not being able to relax. 

If someone had told me at that time that all I had to do to feel better was let go of my thoughts and pay attention to what was happening to me in the present moment – specifically, by focusing on my…

Mindful attitudes are the mindsets we bring toward the practice of mindfulness, and toward our life in general.  It’s about how we pay attention to our moment-to-moment experience that’s most important.

In mindfulness, you intentionally steer your mind in the direction of healthy attitudes such as openness and acceptance as a way to develop and strengthen these qualities. This also allows the mind and body to relax and start to let go of stress.  By setting the…