Often with stress and anxiety, there are underlying fears that go noticed in day to day life that are contributing to or causing the anxiety. Self-exploration and reflection are a key part of working through it. This guided meditation combines breath awareness, the body scan, and mindfulness of thoughts to explore sources of stress and anxiety.

Show Notes: Meditation by Bob Stahl and Elisha Goldstein. This practice is excerpted from A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook, by Bob Stahl and Elisha Goldstein. New Harbinger Publications.

Bob Stahl, PhD, has founded eight Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction programs in medical centers in the San Francisco Bay Area and is currently offering programs at Dominican Hospital and El Camino Hospitals in Los Gatos and Mt. View.