Skills for stress
Tossing and turning at night? Snapping at your kids for no good reason? Stress-eating? You’re not alone.
And this is why millions of people are turning to meditation to help improve their physical and mental health—especially as we trudge through the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and navigate the restrictions it has placed on our lives.
“During this time of crisis, we need ways to de-stress and skills to help us manage our challenging emotions, to cultivate positive emotions, and to find a place of balance within us,” says Diana Winston, director of mindfulness education at the UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center (MARC) in Los Angeles and the author of The Little Book of Being.
And meditation ticks all the boxes, she says. You don’t even need much to get started except a quiet spot, a chunk of time (even as little as five minutes will do), and an open mind.
As Neda Gould, PhD, director of the mindfulness program at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, puts it: All of the tools needed to learn how to meditate are available within your mind and body, including your breath and five senses.
How meditation works
At its heart, meditation,
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