Weekly Meeting: 5 Ways To Reduce Anxiety – Fast, Effective, Practical Techniques

*Note: our once-a-month free meeting (which is usually held on the first Thursday of the month will be next week–the second week of this month—as we have something extra-special happening next week! Details to follow...*

This week in our Thursday meeting we'll be exploring the topic of excessive worry, anxiety, and fear-based thinking – and we'll be looking at some simple (but powerful and fast-acting) techniques, all rooted in Mindfulness, that can help us to free ourselves from the often overwhelming and life-diminishing grip of these painful mental and emotional states.

In the course of the meeting we'll look at the reasons why anxiety plagues so many of us today, and we'll learn the surprisingly straightforward and remarkably simple tools that Mindfulness and meditation provide which can help us to better manage all of this, so allowing us to move into a fuller and much freer experience of life.

Our evening together will include some top teaching, tips and advice from leading experts in the fields of psychology, neuroscience and meditation – including professor Mark Williams (the UK's leading expert on contemporary Mindfulness), the top psychotherapist and meditation teacher Tara Brach, and the clinical psychiatrist and acclaimed neuroscientist Dr Jud Brewer. Plus, the experienced Mindfulness teacher, Shaun Glossop (our Group Co-Ordinator), will be acting as our host for the evening, guiding us through this week's topic and helping to explain everything in a simple, straight-forward, and down-to-earth way.

The meeting will include a range of tips, techniques and practices (which we'll try out in the course of the meeting) that can be taken away and put into immediate action in our everyday lives and, during the meeting, Mark, Tara, Jud and others will share their expertise and advice in a series of short and inspiring video clips, and we'll also join together in some periods of relaxing guided meditation.

Join us LIVE online for a great evening of mindfulness— or register and get the video to watch anytime!...

– There is a modest, flexible admission/registration fee for this meeting. (You can pay any amount you choose from £3 to £7)

– To get the Zoom link (or to register for the recording) just RSVP to this event here on [MeetUp.com](https://www.meetup.com/nottm-mindfulness-grp/events/314656510/?eventOrigin=group_upcoming_events). You will then receive a secure PayPal link to pre-pay your admission (you can pay any amount you choose from £3 to £7).

Important Note: after you've paid your admission you will be sent the Zoom link for this week's meeting. (A different link will follow later on, sometime after the live meeting, to access the video recording.) Both links will usually be sent by email to the inbox associated with your PayPal transaction (although you may also receive them as a DM through [[MeetUp.com](https://www.meetup.com/nottm-mindfulness-grp/events/314656510/?eventOrigin=group_upcoming_events)].

Please allow a little time for the first Zoom link to arrive, as we are a tiny organisation and this process is not automated—it won't necessarily happen immediately and it may take a couple of hours or so (or longer if it’s outside office hours).