A systematic review recently published in Mental Health and Physical Activity analyzed the results of 35 studies to look at the combined effects of mindfulness and exercise.

The results suggest that when combined, mindfulness and exercise might offer the most benefits for mental health.

Gently shifting your own perspective in a journal this way could lead to you being able to do it on the spur of the moment, as stressful events unfold. One interesting finding of the above study is that people who practiced this technique scored higher on a measure of emotional resiliency, i.e., they were more likely to believe that they were

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Effects of Mindfulness on Psychological Well-being: A Scoping Review