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Coping with holiday stress through meditation

How to find your peace in the hustle and bustle.

November 28, 2017 by Strategic Communication

With the joy of the holidays also comes stress. It hits you from all sides: gift-giving, financial burdens, crowded malls, packed calendars.

It all adds up.  

Dr. Amber Abernathy, assistant professor in Missouri State University’s psychology department and the Mary-Charlotte Bayles Shealy Chair in Conscientious Psychology, provides tips for coping. The first tip is simple: Be prepared. 

Abernathy’s interest is in personality and in conscientiousness – which is one of the big five personality traits. Some of her more recent research projects include the use of meditation and mindfulness to control physiological reactions, like increased heart rate, tension and other stress responses.

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Filed Under: Discovery, Faculty and Staff Page Tagged With: Amber Abernathy, faculty, McQueary College of Health and Human Services, Missouri State Journal, Psychology, research

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