Guided Practices and Exercises
Explore guided mental health exercises and practices to help reduce stress, manage anxiety, and support your emotional well-being. This collection includes guided mindfulness exercises, breathing techniques, grounding exercises, and self-reflection activities you can use in everyday life. Whether you’re feeling anxious, having difficulty relaxing, or simply looking for ways to care for yourself, these resources offer practical tools you can explore at your own pace.
These guided self-compassion practices offer practical ways to navigate difficult emotions, ease self-criticism, set healthy boundaries, and manage stress. Through short, recorded exercises, you’ll learn techniques for treating yourself with kindness, finding comfort during challenging moments, and building a more supportive relationship with yourself.
21 Mindful Exercises and Activities
Discover 21 mindfulness exercises and activities designed to help reduce stress, manage anxiety, and improve emotional well-being. From mindful breathing and body scans to mindful walking, this collection offers simple, practical techniques to help you stay present and incorporate mindfulness into your daily life.
Johns Hopkins Medicine: Mindfulness Program
Explore guided mindfulness meditations and relaxation exercises from Dr. Neda Gould, Director of the Johns Hopkins Mindfulness Program. These practices include techniques to help reduce stress and anxiety, improve focus, support emotional well-being, and bring greater awareness to everyday life.
5 Self-Compassion Exercises to Practice Daily
Self-compassion is about treating yourself with the same kindness and understanding you would offer someone you care about. These five self-compassion exercises, including loving-kindness meditation, offer practical ways to reduce stress, quiet self-criticism, and build a kinder relationship with yourself through daily practice.
Insight Timer is a meditation and wellness app offering a large library of guided meditations, mindfulness practices, breathwork, sleep support, music, and courses. With practices focused on stress, anxiety, relaxation, self-compassion, and emotional well-being, it can be a helpful resource for building mindfulness into everyday life. Much of its content is available for free.
Calm offers simple ways to slow down, quiet a busy mind, and make a little more space for yourself during the day. The app includes guided meditations, breathing exercises, mindfulness practices, relaxing music, and Sleep Stories, with options for managing stress and anxiety, winding down at night, or simply taking a few minutes to reset
How We Feel is a free emotional well-being app designed to help you identify and better understand your emotions. Created in collaboration with the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, it includes mood check-ins, emotion tracking, and practical strategies for managing stress, shifting thought patterns, practicing mindfulness, and building emotional awareness.