If you suffer from stress and anxiety, odds are someone in your life has mentioned meditation as a way to cope with it. Psychiatrists often recommend this therapy, and for good reason — research based on 19,000 meditation studies found mindful meditation can in fact ease psychological stress. Despite that data, however, meditation isn’t for everyone. And it may not serve some people who experience the most severe bouts of stress. I have chronic generalized anxiety , which means I’m always experiencing a level of tension or stress. For the most part I can manage it, but every now and then, it’ll hit hard without warning, and uproot my day completely. In college, my therapist recommended I try meditation to curb my anxiety. At first, I was happy to oblige. I tried a variety of styles , from Zen meditation , which has you focus on breathing, to primordial sound mediation , which involves, well, making primordial sounds. It didn’t work. I’d often find myself more anxious at t
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