Portland Mindfulness Programs

Are You Making These Mistakes That Make Anxiety Worse?

You Avoid Anxiety Triggers Oftentimes an event, a person or a thought triggers your anxiety. Many times your anxiety has no trigger. This mistake is only matters when your anxiety has a trigger. Once you know the trigger for your anxiety, your mind remembers the trigger and makes you avoid it next time. Of course, the experience of anxiety is awful and you don’t want to go through that. But every…

3 Quick Ways People Are Using to Calm Anxiety & Panic

Drop into the Sense of Touch You are quite distracting yourself here. When you feel anxious, three things are happening. You experience a bad feeling Thoughts are churning in your head Sensations are present your body Thoughts and feelings lock you in. “I just want this to stop” “why is this happening again” “I can’t breath” “why is my heart racing so fast”, “oh my god I’m going to have a heart…

Benefits of Meditation without Meditating?

A regular formal meditation habit will greatly increase your chances of experiencing the benefits. In your day and age, it might be a tall order to make additional time to meditate. There is a joke, trying to reduce stress using meditation can be stressful in the beginning. Because you have to make time to meditate regularly. And many times, your inability to make time for things is the very…

What If I Can’t Accept?

If you try to learn more about mindfulness and meditation you may come across an overarching theme. A theme of acceptance. Just Accept? You are expected to accept your circumstances. One of the popular definition of mindfulness according to Bishop et al. is: “A kind of nonelaborative, nonjudgmental, present-centered awareness in which each thought, feeling, or sensation that arises in the…

This Is How You Can Become More Positive

Rick Hanson, the author of ‘Buddha’s Brain’ said: Your mind is like velcro to negativity and Teflon to positivity. If you played with a dog 1000 times and he bit you once, what will you remember? That the dog bit you once. And not so much the 999 times where you absolutely enjoyed playing with him. Why? Because your mind is wired for negativity. It is wired to easily pick out what is negative in…