Mindful Breathing for Anxiety

8 July 2025


Mindful Breathing for Anxiety



Regular practice of mindfulness meditations has been widely researched and has been shown to reduce symptoms like anxiety, depression and stress and increase quality of life and overall well-being. Walk through a simple breathing exercise with Dr. Christiane Wolf, Mindfulness and Insight Meditation Teacher at InsightLA. [1/2022] [Show ID: 37746]

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Have you been feeling
anxious lately? If so, I have something for you. My name is Dr.
Christiane Wolf from InsightLA, and this is a
short mindfulness practice. Mindfulness teaches us that we are actually always
in the present moment. The body is in the
present moment, the mind is not. Where's the mind? The mind is either in the past, rehashing, or in the
future, rehearsing. Right now it's a lot in
the future rehearsing, and that makes us
anxious right now. It makes the body
anxious right now, so let's practice with that. I'm inviting you to finding
a comfortable posture. You can be wherever
you are already are. Closing your eyes for a
moment if that feels okay, and just feeling your
feet on the ground. Feeling how the
chair support you, or if you're standing, how you're just supported in that posture, and then
feeling the breath. Noticing where you
feel your breath, making the breath a little
bit longer and deeper. All the way in, all the way out. If you like, you can emphasize the exhalation just
a little bit more. If you notice that the attention runs away into the future, just bring it back to
right now, right here. If you're feeling anxious just seeing if you can allow
this for right now, just right now for this moment, noticing where you feel it, maybe in the chest,
or the belly. Then using the breath, imagining you can breathe
into this anxiety, into these sensations
of anxiety, or breathing some
space around it. Allowing this to be here
as best as you can. Holding it with kindness. Then asking yourself,
am I okay right now? If I don't let myself
run into the future, if I'm really here
in this moment, am I okay right now? The answer almost
always is yes, you are. Here you are. Thank you. [MUSIC].

#Mindful #Breathing #Anxiety

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22 Comments
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  2. She is right, I agree with her opinion.

  3. She is right, I agree with her opinion.

  4. Found this while dealing with the fall of democracy and ICE raids in Los Angeles. Thank you.

  5. 😢🤧 alot to say but I don't know if anyone will understand 😭

    Juggling school, medical school and trying to learn a skill because the country I live in is really tough and graduates end up jobless including doctors unless you have connections, trying to survive. I didn't do well in my exam today and in the skill that I'm learning I'm still not doing well, Being an orphan and having your uncle who's barely surviving train you, your siblings and his own kids too. If I disappoint I'll be left behind. My life is so bad. Why will my parents have to leave us so early, my siblings and I have been separated since I was 3.
    Is this a life and being trying to edit something and getting wrong I'm still a beginner but I hate myself for not learning fast.

    So much to talk about but lonely and have no one, feel better that I have said it here even though I know people here are strangers and might not see it.

    Thanks so much for this, it helped a lot. Your video was recommended by chat GPT

  6. My present is absolutely shocking. It's nothing to do with my past or future.

  7. I am a graduate of several Berkeley Psychic Institutes programs. I spent about $20000 over the years. Since April 2022, unwillingly I got on a mental torturing system while unconscious, I paid extra $1000 to Renaau Brewster as they requested over the phone. This system has been creating weird images n voices in my space except when I'm asleep. It's very dangerous as I involuntary dropping stuff in the kitchen n I was pushed by invisible hands while walking in public. They told me I should vent online on a regular basis, I was told at times the system is a Russian or CIA spy training system that mostly protects only white and married graduates, as the Russian system dislikes unmarried minorities, especially single male Buddhist !! One of the evidence is that the main Berkeley Psychic Institute building sold to a Tibetan community!

  8. Instantly helped. I was anxious about going to bed because I had a panic attack last night. I just need to relax and stop putting pressure on myself

  9. Thank you for calming me down. I really needed that 🙂

  10. wow. i had a panic attack during a show i’m the lead of last night, and i have to do it again tonight! so i’m a bit apprehensive, and this was so helpful. thank you.

  11. Am I ok right now now?Yes I am ok.I am safe,I am well.I am ok.

  12. I would love to know if you have more topics on dealing with different feelings of panic attacks. This was a great meditation!

  13. Heartfullness meditation can help

  14. Getting a panic attack for my JEE. Don't have the time to cry about how I fucked everything up. Can just calm myself and start studying again

  15. For anxiety focus at a point for 5-6 mins everyday …that's the best exercise result will be in your hands..

  16. Powerful. Glad I stumbled upon this. Very helpful tonight. So insightful and grounding. Thank you.

  17. Great video, but background noise is very distracting

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