Could meditation be the cure for your post-pandemic distress? 

If you're currently living in the year 2021, it's safe to say you need to cut yourself a huge break. Living through the infamous global pandemic of 2020 wasn't a close ideal scenario to start the new decade.

How do we learn to deal with all this new stress? 

According to a study performed by the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Arizona College of Medicine, in a group of 1,013 participants, 27.2 - 32.2 percent of participants were positive for moderate to severe depression, and 29.8 - 45.8 percent of participants were positive for generalized anxiety disorder, during the peeks and lows of the outbreak of COVID. These numbers suggest we as a country need to get back on the right track to mend our mental status and find healthy coping techniques.

And this is where meditation comes in, a technique used to teach mindfulness. And I can hear your thoughts already, "I'm trying to get back on my feet after this pandemic; how in the world is meditation going to help me pay my bills?" Subjectively, the impactful yet straightforward advice I have ever received is that if you're OK, everything will be OK. Furthermore, fixing your mental state before you start that new job would only do more good than bad, versus having to be on a constant merry-go-round of constant worries and woes. 

There are many forms of meditation. However, meditation involving breathing techniques is the most popular. That goes without saying, any breathing technique you would like to incorporate in your life, it's recommended you see your regular practitioner first to see if this is right for you. 

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