This Simple Act of Calm employs the art of watching without doing. Your challenge is to spend the day watching the world around you without reacting to, or commenting on, what you see and hear. The idea is to watch without judgement, to keep your feelings neutral and, as best you can, tread lightly and quietly through your day.

Watching without reacting puts us in a peaceful place of detached observation. Somewhere where we can listen and observe but feel free from investing our emotions and energy in what's going on around us.

Guest Post by Kelly Kilpatrick

The use of therapeutic massage to reduce stress and anxiety levels is a fairly common practice in the United States and around the world. Using massage as a means to achieve this end has grown in popularity in recent years, and finding a licensed massage therapist near you should be a fairly easy task. There are several ways therapeutic massage helps to reduce your stress and anxiety levels, several of which will be explored in this article.

Photo by Coffee MonsterGrounding techniques can help you stay calmly focused in the present moment. They are easy to do and valuable for learning how to control anxiety.

Grounding techniques steady the mind by drawing it to notice normal physical sensations. This simple noticing of the body triggers the mind to step down from high adrenaline states and begin to relax.