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This is a fun and comforting exercise. What's your affirmation?

🔎 Comment below: What’s the first word you see? Turn that word into an affirmation by putting “I am” before it.

Positive affirmations have the power to change our thinking and improve our mindset. 💭They can empower and encourage us, strengthening our sense of self.

The way we talk to ourselves has a profound effect on our overall well-being. ✨ Our thoughts send signals to every cell in our body. When our thoughts are chaotic or negative, that stress is communicated to the rest of the body and experienced physically with shortness of breath, tense muscles, elevated heart rate. When we consciously speak to ourselves with words of compassion, love, and strength, our body gets the message that we believe in its power to heal. 🙏

This kind of self-talk is especially important in stressful times. When we feel ourselves becoming anxious or our thoughts tending toward the negative, these positive expressions can serve as a mental anchor. ⚓️ Affirmations become mantras to ground and center us and remind us of who we are at our core. 💛

💬 Comment below with your affirmation!

Do you believe thousands of people around the world meditating can make a difference? I'm going to participate in this tomorrow. Who's with me?

A Live Global Meditation Event Led by Deepak Chopra THE WELL and Chopra present H(OM)E, a global live meditation event on Sunday, March 29, 2020, led by Deepak Chopra. Join us as we set our collective energy toward healing the world at a time when we need it most.

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Some good advice for meditating when anxious...

Meditating With Anxiety — Ten Percent Happier When my daughter is upset, anxious, or angry, my job as a parent is to hold her in a loving presence. I don’t have to fix her emotion, give her advice, tell her not to be sad, or take the pain away. My job is simply be there for her. The same is often true in meditation—except for myself.

Moment by moment, we can find our way through.

This is a beautiful sentiment.

You Are Not Alone One of the most difficult things about hard times is that we often feel that we are going through them alone. But we are not alone. In fact, your life itself is only possible because of the thousands of generations before you, survivors who have carried the lamp of humanity through difficult times f...

Wow, what a wonderful collection of meditations to honor women!

10 Mindfulness Practices from Powerful Women - Mindful In honor of International Women's Day we've gathered 10 mindfulness practices created by women to help you live a generous, compassionate, healthy life.

Have you taken some time to take a few deep breaths today?

Why slowing your breathing helps you relax Cultivating more control over our lungs can bring many benefits to our mental and physical health. Is it time to relearn breathing?

Honoring the life of Ram Dass, 1931 - 2019.

A little bit of science showing how yoga can help with depression and anxiety by raising GABA levels:

How Yoga and Breathing Help the Brain Unwind Research shows normalization of neurotransmitters in anxiety and depression.

I hope you find some time during this busy season to enjoy some peace and stillness.

SO much good stuff here...

How Meditation Helps Transform Your Suffering Every life includes some suffering. And although it’s impossible to predict the type of suffering you will face, what is known is that meditation can help. Meditate to help work through unpleasantness.

"In one study...yoga participants showed significantly improved working memory, cognitive flexibility and efficiency, and executive function compared to the control group."

Aging Brains Keep Producing New Cells Research Finds | YogaUOnline Researchers at Columbia University find evidence that healthy older adults can generate as many new brain cells as younger people. Yoga may help.

Even more scientific evidence of the power of meditation to help with emotional states, and cardiovascular health!

Meditation could help anxiety and cardiovascular health In a student-led study, one hour of mindfulness meditation shown to reduce anxiety and some cardiovascular risk markers.

More scientific evidence that attention to your breathing changes your emotional state. I know whenever I feel anxious, I try to look at how I'm breathing, and it's always shallow and from the chest. Taking a slow breath while allowing the abdomen to expand always helps.

Animal study connects fear behavior, rhythmic breathing, brain smell center There's increasing physiological evidence connecting breathing patterns with the brain regions that control mood and emotion. Now researchers have added neurons associated with the olfactory system to the connection between behavior and breathing. Connecting patterns in these interactions may help e...

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Can't wait to watch Jon Kabat-Zinn talk about mindfulness on Super Soul Sunday tomorrow!

What It Means to Be Mindful Scientist and author Jon Kabat-Zinn says mindfulness is simply the act of practicing awareness of the moment you are currently in. Being mindful, he says, can unlock a lifetime of small pleasures.

The art in this video is so cute! Great info, too...

The Scientific Power of Meditation How exactly does meditation affect your body? GET THE BOOK! http://asapscience.com/book SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/10kWnZ7 Written by: Rachel Salt, Gregory Bro...