Quell Anxiety, Calm Emotions with This Mindfulness Strategy

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Quell Anxiety, Calm Emotions with This Mindfulness Strategy

At its core, reducing the effects of mental illness on your life and determining ways to live well in spite of it is a long-term approach and a gradual, steady process. However, you can do things to manage any mental illness, personality disorder, or life stress in the moment when your struggle is intense. Using proven techniques, you can drastically reduce your anxiety or calm your emotions and become quickly centered and better able to deal with your situation on the spot.

One such well-established and credible approach is a mindfulness strategy called RAIN. RAIN was developed by Michele McDonald, an international insight meditation teacher, and it is used by mindfulness leader Tara Brach in her teachings. When you are stuck in anxiety or other strong, negative thoughts and emotions, pause, take a slow deep breath, and let it RAIN:

• Recognize your emotions
• Allow or accept them to exist without fighting with them
• Investigate without judging or berating yourself; with openness, ask what is happening in the moment that is causing your strong reaction
• Natural awareness through mindfulness lets you use your senses (not your thoughts and emotions) to be present in just the moment and relax

RAIN is cleansing. It lets you pause and reset, quieting your thoughts and emotions in each moment.

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Your Thoughts

Today's Question: Do you have a go-to phrase that helps you be still when your negative thoughts and emotions seem to run rampant? We invite you to participate by sharing your thoughts, experiences, and knowledge on the HealthyPlace Facebook page.

From the HealthyPlace Mental Health Blogs

On all our blogs, your comments and observations are welcomed.

• When PTSD Gets Worse Before It Gets Better
• 5 Unexpected Forms of Self-Care
• Practice Self-Care to Build Self-Esteem
• Suicide Media Coverage and Caregiver Anxiety
• Judging Bipolar Coping Skills
• Staying Calm When the News is On
• When Black Mental Health Suffers, We Aren't Taken Seriously
• Trauma and Depression Have Both Affected Me Greatly
• The Benefits of Exercise for Schizoaffective Disorder
• Impatient to Get Rid of Anxiety? Impatience Causes Anxiety
• Set Reasonable Expectations to Build Self-Esteem
• 3 Ways Traveling Helps You Grow
• Feeling Defensive? Find Out Why and What to Do About It
• My Baby Helps My Depression, but I'm Wary
• Drive for Thinness as a Personal Trainer
• Does Exercise Help Dissociative Identity Disorder?
• 5 Tips for Traveling in Eating Disorder Recovery
• Anxiety from Change: Overcoming Fears of Something New

Feel free to share your thoughts and comments at the bottom of any blog post. And visit the mental health blogs homepage for the latest posts.

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Most Popular HealthyPlace Articles Shared by Facebook Fans

Here are the top 3 mental health articles HealthyPlace Facebook fans are recommending you read:

1. Effects of Stress on Schizophrenia
2. Online DID Support Groups -- The Pros and Cons
3. How to Use Authentic Thinking to Build Self-Esteem

If you're not already, I hope you'll join us/like us on Facebook too. There are a lot of wonderful, supportive people there.

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Mental Health Quote

"I am not living I am surviving."

Read more depression quotes.

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