How to counteract your fast brain

Meditation as a practice is useful to tune into awareness and to calm your nervous system.

To start, take a minute or two to pay attention to where your mind wanders. When you're able to begin noticing problematic situations through the practice of awareness, you can stop ...

• Study yourself. Pay attention to your reactions and behaviours to get a better understanding of your emotional responses.
• Manage emotions during stressful situations by breathing correctly. Breathe deep and steady through the nose with a relaxed ribcage to lower stress ...

• Take a deep breath. Slow, deep breaths activate your parasympathetic nervous system, which calms you down.
• Don’t dwell on scary thoughts without any productive decisions.
• Give yourself a break. Accept your negative emotions.

• Exercise. Re...