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The Five-Minute Meditation That Will Stress-Proof Your Mind
Erin Magner, a 200HR Yoga Teacher Training grad, shares a five-minute meditation to reduce stress from Tiffany Cruikshank’s book Meditate Your Weight. This article was originally published on Huffington Post and Allure.com.
The Five-Minute Meditation That Will Stress-Proof Your Mind
We’ve been conditioned to believe that stress is the ultimate 21st-century evil, but Tiffany Cruikshank wants you to know that’s not exactly true.
As the Yoga Medicine founder and meditation expert explains, our innate stress response is actually super useful; it’s what causes us to act fast when, say, we’re about to get hit by a bus. But when we perceive every little less-than-ideal event in our day as a potential threat–a full inbox, a traffic jam, a grumpy barista–we keep our minds stuck in the fight-or-flight danger zone.
In other words, says Cruikshank, it’s our (totally controllable) response to stressful events that’s dangerous, rather than the stressful circumstances themselves.
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