Mindfulness and Stress Management
Source: Unsplash (Free to use, no attribution required) In today’s fast-paced and demanding world, stress has become one of the most common challenges affecting mental well-being. Everybody is subjected to it from students, through workers, to the housewives taking care of the family. When it comes to stress, the normal is at some level but chronic stress can lead to health issues that are quite serious like anxiety, depression, coronary illnesses, and lack of sleep. Hence, the issue of efficient stress management has become vital to keeping up both mental and physical well-being. One of the noteworthy and most recognized worldwide among the different methods is mindfulness. What is Mindfulness? Mindfulness means fully noticing one’s present thoughts, feelings, and surroundings without judging them. Kabat-Zinn (2003) puts it that Mindfulness is quite often referred to as "in-sight" meditation, which denotes a deep, penetrating and non-conceptual seeing into the ...