Meditation is the practice of training your awareness to achieve mental clarity and emotional calmness.  Modern research suggests that meditation helps to improve stress, anxiety, and depression, along with many other benefits. One study done at the University of British Columbia found that the anterior cingulate cortex (associated with controlling impulses and maintaining attention) of those that practiced regular meditation had thicker tissue in the regions responsible for body awareness, enhanced focus, stress management, and attention, and the amygdala (responsible for processing sadness, anxiety, and a myriad of negative emotions) was found to shrink in size.

This grounding meditation method is a quick and simple tool anyone can do at any time to help calm down and re-center.