Quiet Mind/Quiet Body - Managing Stress and Anxiety (Zen Chat March 2013)

Pine Wind Zen Community Audio

Aversion to anxiety is often accompanied by reactivity and actions that worsen how we feel. We suffer. Tonight’s presentation taught from the perspectives of Zen and Mindfulness meditation practices, is supported by the latest neuroscience and psychological research. Our focus will be on our direct experience. We will practice uncovering the natural state of a quieted mind, slowing down enough to see what is actually happening when we describe ourselves as anxious. As we cultivate the opportunity to be with what is actually happening with awareness and clarity, we can respond to difficulties with consciousness, ease and new choices, rather than with reactivity that at times can make things worse.