Meditate Awake

DAILY INSIGHT Stress relief comes in many forms — and different things work for different people. In Die Hard, John McClane is scared of flying. The man sitting next to him on the plane says, “you wanna know the secret to surviving air travel? When you get to where you’re going you take your shoes off and your socks, and you walk around barefoot and make fists with your toes.” DAILY ACTION Make fists with your toes! Even the strangest stress relief techniques can help to calm down and bring you into the present moment; and actually, interrupting your thought patterns by focusing on new physical sensations is an effective element of mindfulness practice. Try it. Die Hard said so.