Through my own experiences, I have learned that in these traumatic moments, if we can come back to our breath and our body and relax, we can calm the waves of pain, and then our body no longer has to continue to secrete adrenaline into the bloodstream. We sit still and stay calm, instead of being frightened and reactive.

We learn to ease fears, worries, and anxieties with the practices of deep relaxation, mindful breathing, walking meditation, and sitting meditation.

We have to learn the art of stopping — stopping our thinking, our habit energies, our forgetfulness, the strong emotions that rule us. When an emotion rushes through us like a storm, we have no peace. We turn on the TV and then we turn it off. We pick up a book and then we put it down. How can we stop this state of agitation? How can we stop our fe