Hello everybody and welcome to the mindful kind.

I'm your host, Rachel Cable, and I'm here to share insights into my mindfulness journey

and inspire you to create your own.

Each week, this podcast will bring fresh and exciting news about mindfulness,

from my personal experiences to useful tools and different

mindful techniques.

Hello and welcome to episode 129 of the Mindful Kyan podcast.

In this episode, I really want to explore mindfulness as a preventative measure for stress and anxiety,

or in other words, how mindfulness can help us manage stress and anxiety and prevent them from becoming too overwhelming.

Stress occurs as a result of demands in life, which cause us to feel pressured, rushed or busy

and create a physical change in the body by triggering the fight or flight response. We might

experience rapid breathing, higher blood pressure, tension headaches or a pounding heart. Once the

stressor is gone, the stress relating to it usually disappears.

However, if the stress continues even once the stressor has gone, then it may become anxiety.

I've had my own experiences with stress and anxiety throughout my life,

and these experiences were actually what motivated me to study psychology and implement mindfulness

because I knew I wanted to make some changes for myself and understand what I was going through.

Even though many people perceive stress as a bad thing, a little bit of stress is actually

helpful. It can push us to get things done on time, to grow, to learn from mistakes, to feel motivated, to go

out of our comfort zones and to improve. For me, stress has become just another emotion I feel

from time to time in the same way that I see different colours. Variety is the nature of life

and to fight against that can actually be more stress-inducing

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