GABA: The Neurotransmitter of Calm & Relaxation
By properly balancing your GABA level, you can reduce stress, feel less anxious, and reduce your risk for many physical and mental health disorders.
Stress
Browse all the original, in-depth, and evidence-based articles on Be Brain Fit that are relevant to the causes, symptoms, and treatment of stress.
How to Increase Emotional Resilience to Withstand Adversity
Emotional resilience is a learnable process that allows you to adapt well to adversity and major stress. Follow these steps to develop your own resilience.
How to (Really) Stop a Panic Attack: What You Must Know
Popular remedies for panic attacks are usually unhelpful. Get details on two lesser-known techniques that stop panic attacks effectively anytime, anywhere.
High Functioning Anxiety: Symptoms and Remedies
People with high functioning anxiety are often successful, but they also experience symptoms of anxiety. Here’s how to stay successful and reduce anxiety.
Using Adaptogenic Herbs to Reduce Stress, Boost Energy
Adaptogenic herbs can both calm and energize. Their unique abilities help counteract stress and improve mood, mental clarity, and physical stamina.
How to Stimulate the Vagus Nerve for Mind-Body Health
Optimizing the health and function of the vagus nerve helps you handle stress, reduce chronic inflammation, and produce important neurotransmitters.
Natural Alternatives to Xanax (in-depth guide)
Natural alternatives to Xanax, a widely used anti-anxiety drug, are not only effective but avoid this medication’s serious side effects and addictiveness.
Automatic Negative Thoughts (ANTs): How to Break the Habit
Automatic negative thoughts can become overwhelmingly stressful, but can be overcome with simple techniques to challenge and control them.
Best Supplements to Reduce Cortisol (extensive guide)
These supplements are proven to reduce cortisol, a stress hormone that, in excess, is often the cause of physical and mental health problems.
Top 10 Meditation Techniques and Tips for Beginners
Beginners can find meditation frustrating. These top 10 beginner’s techniques and tips make meditation easier to start and stay with.
How to Relax Your Muscles to Ease Stress and Anxiety
Learning how to relax muscle tension has been proven effective in reducing stress, anxiety, and panic, and can improve most stress-related conditions.
Key Vitamins & Minerals for Anxiety and Stress (detailed guide)
Stress consumes excessive key vitamins and minerals. If you don’t replace them with the right foods and supplements, anxiety and stress can worsen.
Stress Management Techniques That Work (in-depth guide)
Effective stress management techniques can offset the negative effects of stress in your life. Try these proven, fast, and reliable stress remedies.
Meditation for Anxiety: Proven Way to Calm Your Mind
Meditation can work as well as common Rx drugs for anxiety, changing your brain and making it less anxiety-prone. Learn the best ways to meditate.
How to Reduce Cortisol, the Stress Hormone
Chronic stress can lead to an elevated cortisol level, resulting in mental, emotional, and physical health issues. Learn how to reduce cortisol naturally.
11 Benefits of Tapping for Anxiety Relief
Tapping, based on acupuncture concepts, is very effective for anxiety relief. Learn how tapping works and get all the instructions needed to start tapping.
GABA Supplements for Stress and Anxiety (& which work best)
A deficiency in GABA, a major inhibitory neurotransmitter, can be a major contributor to stress and anxiety. Learn how to increase GABA naturally.
How Magnesium Relieves Anxiety & Stress (detailed guide)
The benefits of magnesium for anxiety and stress are substantial, yet up to 75% of us are deficient. Learn how to boost your magnesium level naturally.
The Power of Self-Hypnosis to Improve Your Mind
Self-hypnosis induces a state of extreme relaxation and increased suggestibility to treat a host of mental and physical conditions. Learn how it can help you.
Binaural Beats: A Meditation Shortcut
The phenomena of binaural beats and brainwave entrainment can induce the same mental state associated with traditional meditation practice, but quickly.
Using Kava for Anxiety and Stress
Using kava for anxiety and stress is well established. Learn how to use kava as a supplement and a tea, as well as kava’s benefits, dosing, and safety.
Autogenic Training: A Surprisingly Effective Relaxation Technique
Autogenic training is a little-known relaxation technique that’s effective for a variety of stress-related conditions. Learn how it works and how you can do it.
Traumatic Effects of Chronic Stress on the Brain
Chronic stress increases the stress hormone cortisol, affecting brain health and function and putting you at risk for various mood and mental disorders.
Remove Clutter to Reduce Stress (+ 5-Step Decluttering System)
Get rid of clutter to become more focused, relaxed, and productive. Use our simple decluttering system to unleash your mental energy and creativity.
The Mental Health Benefits of Art Are for Everyone
Creating art relieves stress, encourages creative thinking, increases brain plasticity, and imparts other mental health benefits. And anyone can do art.
The Benefits of Coloring for Stress Relief
Coloring is relaxing and may reduce stress, anxiety, depression, and PTSD. But the benefits of coloring are not the same as art therapy or creating art.
How L-Theanine Benefits Stress, Anxiety and Focus
L-theanine, as a supplement or in tea, can reduce stress and anxiety, and boost mental health and performance, by inducing a state of calm attentiveness.
