How To Use Mindful Breathing To Reduce Stress

So within this blog is information that is eons old, but framed within the context of today’s busy, stressful lifestyle of working mom’s, entrepreneurs, athletes and those, like me, that live with some form of disabling condition.
Shannon Dougherty and Kim Miller are co-founders of FitMomDiet.com and outline below a useful strategy (that works for me) for reducing and managing anxiety and stress that seems ubiquitous amongst our western society.

Mindfulness is the practice of becoming aware. Basically, paying attention to thought and habit. When anxiety surfaces it’s very easy to simply react, which only feeds the problem more and creates unhealthy patterns. Alternatively, if we use mindful thought and breathe to bring awareness to the situation we can begin to rid ourselves of the stress we feel in these moments.