Anxiety can become a habit, and mindfulness might be able to help us quit it.
Why it matters: Anxiety is the most common mental illness, affecting some 300 million people around the world, per The Lancet.
We can fixate on anxious thoughts because worrying about situations gives us a false sense of control over them. Mindfulness can help us realize that worrying for the sake of it isn't helpful.
-- Jud Brewer
In a recent study published in JAMA Psychiatry, researchers found that mindfulness training and exercises were effective in decreasing participants' anxiety levels.
The stunning revelation was that these exercises worked just about as well as anti-anxiety drugs. Continue here....
-- Elizabeth Black
