Meditation beats anxiety by activating certain brain structures

The evidence is in for which brain structures, specifically, are activated by mindfulness meditation to reduce anxiety.

If you are not familiar with mindfulness meditation, you might want to give try it for a few decades and see how you like it.

In short, mindfulness meditation is:

1. Focusing on the breath or the senses in some focused way

2. Allowing thoughts to arise, and noticing them non-judgmentally (this is huge: you are not to become angry at yourself for having thoughts, and when unsettling thoughts arise, you say: "How interesting/human of my mind to have a thought like that" and move on.)

3. Return your focus to the breath

The article about this study on Science Daily may be found here.

Have a mindful and minimally anxious day!