Meditation: Stress Antidote

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Jay Winner, M.D., author of Stress Management Made Simple: Effective Ways to Beat Stress for Better Health (Blue Fountain Press, 2003) offers these meditation tips:

• Focus on taking “diaphragmatic breaths.” Let your abdomen expand each time you breathe in, and notice the sensation of the air in your nostrils, lungs, and abdomen.
• Know that you will have a variety of thoughts. Do not resist the thoughts; just gently let them go. As you let them go, bring your attention back to your breathing.
• Do not resist the physical sensations you may notice. Instead, try to relax one body part at a time, beginning either with your feet, then moving up, or your head, then moving down