My sister is a mental health professional and she has recommended meditation and headspace (an app) to me a year ago. I've found it to be a great help and to the exercises to have a measurable impact on my life.
It provides techniques (reflection, visualization, noting etc) that offer tools to deal with day to day stress related information.
There are a lot of studies about meditation's effectiveness:
I'm always surprised that when people discuss it with me they're surprised I do it. Somehow it has a reputation for pseudoscience but there are easily a hundred articles supporting the benefits.
It provides techniques (reflection, visualization, noting etc) that offer tools to deal with day to day stress related information.
There are a lot of studies about meditation's effectiveness:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29110263 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29126747
I'm always surprised that when people discuss it with me they're surprised I do it. Somehow it has a reputation for pseudoscience but there are easily a hundred articles supporting the benefits.