A New Way to Deal with Stress in Nursing…
In the second part of this series, Why Do You Get Stressed…, we looked at why we become stressed due to our thoughts and thinking. In this final part, we’ll explore how mindfulness and meditation can help us to work differently with our mind and emotions.
HOW TO TAME YOUR MIND AND REDUCE STRESS
There are so many reasons to learn how to meditate but for the purpose of this discussion, we’ll discuss meditation as it relates to working with stress.
Basically, as we learn to meditate, we’ll begin to see that the pattern of our stress reactivity can be related to how distracted we are and learn how to break that cycle. But before we go there…
There are many concepts and thoughts about what meditation “is,” and in future articles I’ll go into an in-depth discussion about its uses, research into its benefits and such.
I love this series! Thanks for sharing. As an RN, dealing with your stress in a healthy way is crucial! Continuous stress has so many negative consequences on the body. An easy way to reduce daily stress and anxiety is to practice mindfulness through meditation. I prefer to use smartphone apps for daily meditation. It’s an easy and convenient way to meditate. My personal favorite is the Calm app. Often times I think people are intimidated by meditation, but smartphone apps help to reduce that boundary.