What the Research Says About Watching the News and Its Affect on Our Mental Health
08/05/22 • 23 min
In this episode, recorded with a live audience, Sarah shares the research about the effects of watching graphic news coverage, including bystander video. She also explains the degree to which a 14-minute reel of news can affect your anxiety, level of sadness and catastrophic thinking. And Sarah and Jacob explain what drives us to watch the news in the first place. Whether you are a news watcher or news reader, you will be interested to hear what the experts have to say about the vicious cycle watching the news can create in our lives. And hear from our audience participation as well.
explains what someone typically experiences as a result of trauma, including anxiety, attention issues, difficulty with emotions and more. She shares information on the most popular ways people heal from trauma, including EMDR, therapy, yoga and of course mindfulness. Jacob shares his own personal experiences with these modalities. Sarah and Jacob both discuss in detail how mindfulness can allow someone to feel more comfortable in their bodies and begin to experience emotions in real-time. Mindfulness also supports us to decrease self-critical thoughts and the pressure we place on ourselves because we have been through trauma.
Important links:
The Aware Mind blog: http://www.tsdmind.org/blog
TSD Mindfulness Virtual Meditation Center http://www.tsdmind.org
Sarah's Mindfulness Coaching website: http://www.sarahvallely.com
Jacob's Personal Training website http://www.jacobderossett.com
Jacob's YouTube Channel https://tinyurl.com/9yykwne9
The Aware Mind on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/aware_mind_podcast/
This episode is a meditation for beginners, and mindfulness for beginners resource. Intermediate and advanced meditators will also benefit. The Aware Mind produces content that supports stress reduction, anxiety relief, better concentration and focus, and trauma healing.
Download supplemental handouts from our blog to support your practice. A transcript is also available on our blog. The Aware Mind is produced by TSD Mindfulness, a virtual meditation center, offering mindfulness classes, certifications and private coaching.
In this episode, recorded with a live audience, Sarah shares the research about the effects of watching graphic news coverage, including bystander video. She also explains the degree to which a 14-minute reel of news can affect your anxiety, level of sadness and catastrophic thinking. And Sarah and Jacob explain what drives us to watch the news in the first place. Whether you are a news watcher or news reader, you will be interested to hear what the experts have to say about the vicious cycle watching the news can create in our lives. And hear from our audience participation as well.
explains what someone typically experiences as a result of trauma, including anxiety, attention issues, difficulty with emotions and more. She shares information on the most popular ways people heal from trauma, including EMDR, therapy, yoga and of course mindfulness. Jacob shares his own personal experiences with these modalities. Sarah and Jacob both discuss in detail how mindfulness can allow someone to feel more comfortable in their bodies and begin to experience emotions in real-time. Mindfulness also supports us to decrease self-critical thoughts and the pressure we place on ourselves because we have been through trauma.
Important links:
The Aware Mind blog: http://www.tsdmind.org/blog
TSD Mindfulness Virtual Meditation Center http://www.tsdmind.org
Sarah's Mindfulness Coaching website: http://www.sarahvallely.com
Jacob's Personal Training website http://www.jacobderossett.com
Jacob's YouTube Channel https://tinyurl.com/9yykwne9
The Aware Mind on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/aware_mind_podcast/
This episode is a meditation for beginners, and mindfulness for beginners resource. Intermediate and advanced meditators will also benefit. The Aware Mind produces content that supports stress reduction, anxiety relief, better concentration and focus, and trauma healing.
Download supplemental handouts from our blog to support your practice. A transcript is also available on our blog. The Aware Mind is produced by TSD Mindfulness, a virtual meditation center, offering mindfulness classes, certifications and private coaching.
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In this episode, Sarah explains what someone typically experiences as a result of trauma, including anxiety, attention issues, difficulty with emotions and more. She shares information on the most popular ways people heal from trauma, including EMDR, therapy, yoga and of course mindfulness. Jacob shares his own personal experiences with these modalities. Sarah and Jacob both discuss in detail how mindfulness can allow someone to feel more comfortable in their bodies and begin to experience emotions in real-time. Mindfulness also supports us to decrease self-critical thoughts and the pressure we place on ourselves because we have been through trauma.
Important links:
The Aware Mind blog: http://www.tsdmind.org/blog
TSD Mindfulness Virtual Meditation Center http://www.tsdmind.org
Sarah's Mindfulness Coaching website: http://www.sarahvallely.com
Jacob's Personal Training website http://www.jacobderossett.com
Jacob's YouTube Channel https://tinyurl.com/9yykwne9
The Aware Mind on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/aware_mind_podcast/
This episode is a meditation for beginners, and mindfulness for beginners resource. Intermediate and advanced meditators will also benefit. The Aware Mind produces content that supports stress reduction, anxiety relief, better concentration and focus, and trauma healing.
Download supplemental handouts from our blog to support your practice. A transcript is also available on our blog. The Aware Mind is produced by TSD Mindfulness, a virtual meditation center, offering mindfulness classes, certifications and private coaching.
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Important links:
The Aware Mind blog: http://www.tsdmind.org/blog
TSD Mindfulness Virtual Meditation Center http://www.tsdmind.org
Sarah's Mindfulness Coaching website: http://www.sarahvallely.com
Jacob's Personal Training website http://www.jacobderossett.com
Jacob's YouTube Channel https://tinyurl.com/9yykwne9
The Aware Mind on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/aware_mind_podcast/
This episode is a meditation for beginners, and mindfulness for beginners resource. Intermediate and advanced meditators will also benefit. The Aware Mind produces content that supports stress reduction, anxiety relief, better concentration and focus, and trauma healing.
Download supplemental handouts from our blog to support your practice. A transcript is also available on our blog. The Aware Mind is produced by TSD Mindfulness, a virtual meditation center, offering mindfulness classes, certifications and private coaching.
The Aware Mind - What the Research Says About Watching the News and Its Affect on Our Mental Health
Transcript
Sarah Vallely
Today's episode is about the news. And whether or not watching the news is bad for our mental health. I want to make it clear, when I decided on this topic, I was not an anti-news person. I felt kind of neutral about it. But now after I've done the research over the last few days, I'm not so sure. Personally, I don't watch the news a lot. And it's not for any reason that I can think of other than, I don't resonate so much with the format. Maybe it's the ta
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