Daily Meditations for Calming Your Anxious Mind

by Jeffrey Brantley, Wendy Millstine

Trying to control your anxious thoughts can backfire, making them more prevalent, not less. The best way to calm these common feelings is by attuning yourself to your thoughts in a nonjudgmental, attentive manner, acknowledging your anxieties but choosing to act rather than react.

From the author of Calming Your Anxious Mind comes Daily Mediations for Calming Your Anxious Mind, a collection of more than sixty-four daily mindfulness-based meditations to help you engage with the present moment, manage stress and anxiety, and rediscover the joy in living. Each meditation contains an easy-to-learn visualization exercise, affirmation, or activity, with meditations grouped into four sections: relaxing and feeling safe, embracing joys and fears, befriending your anxious mind and body, and connecting to the web of life.

Genres: Self Help, Meditation, Nonfiction

232 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2008

About the author

Jeffrey Brantley, MD, DFAPA, has practiced mindfulness meditation for over thirty years, and his work in medicine and psychiatry has emphasized mindfulness and mindfulness-based interventions to promote individual health and well-being. He is a founding faculty member of Duke Integrative Medicine, and founded the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Program at Duke Integrative Medicine in 1998. Brantley is the author of Calming Your Anxious Mind and coauthor of the Five Good Minutes series and Daily Meditations for Calming Your Anxious Mind.

Reviews

[Meg Winston · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm not sure I'd ever get a full night's sleep if it weren't for this book. I have been using the meditations to wind down in the evening for the past year and a half. I'm still not tired of them! This is a companion book to Calming Your Anxious Mind by the author with the founder of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Jon Kabat-Zinn.

[Kat · Rating 4 out of 5]

just found out i won this july 1 2014. thanks goodreads, you have no idea how much i need this! hope it comes soon!

just started reading it. it said to live in the present, not the past or future, that is what brings the anxiety , which is what the counselor told me too. im giving the book a try!

im just reading a few a day, its really good and has good suggestions

i tabbed the pages to go back to and refer to later, lots of good ideas

[Bookish Enchantment (Katherine Quirke) · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you suffer from mild or even chronic anxiety this book is a terrific resource to have handy and by your side. Practical and easy methods to diffuse the anxiety that pops up from nowhere and helps you handle situations better.

[Victoria · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a helpful book giving many suggestions for different types of worries and anxieties. The mediations were written in such a way that they would be more useful if they were spoken while meditating. If I read the book again I will record each meditation and listen to them that way. or perhaps purchase the Audible version.

[Marc Mannheimer · Rating 5 out of 5]

In a super-soothing and easy to read language, Dr. Brantley brings meditations at the reader from all angles. Though there are no strenuous or taxing meditations in the book. This guy really understands the mind and the needs of people with chronic anxiety.

[Christine D · Rating 2 out of 5]

Somewhat helpful, but redundant.

[Carol Oldham · Rating 4 out of 5]

Step by step helpful.