Excerpt from an article by Cassandra Vieten on HuffingtonPost

Strangely, what reduces stress best is not trying to make it go away.   Instead, by attending to your breathing, your body sensations or a special word, you bring yourself momentarily into a very basic, nonjudgmental awareness.   Grounded in this place of awareness, you can allow things to be as they are, almost as though you were sitting in the eye of a hurricane.   The stress may still be there, swirling around, but for the moment you are sitting in awareness.