How Mindfulness helps lower Anxiety
By Emma Reynolds This is in reply to a question I received recently. The person was worrying about future anxiety (in this case brought on by the perimenopause). Thanks for your message. What I'm hearing is anxiety about more anxiety. With mindfulness you're practicing learning to not react to the "stressor". That stressor can be a concrete thing (like someone just crashed into my car), or it can be a thought. So, worrying about the thought "I don't want more anxiety" creates