{"id":8789,"date":"2020-03-19T08:52:04","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T13:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/?p=8789"},"modified":"2020-03-19T08:52:04","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T13:52:04","slug":"anxiety-is-contagious-heres-how-to-contain-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wellness\/anxiety-is-contagious-heres-how-to-contain-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Anxiety Is Contagious. Here\u2019s How to Contain It."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite\u00a0our best\u00a0efforts to remain calm and rational in uncertain\u00a0times, social media, constant\u00a0media coverage and the feelings of those around us can derail our best efforts to calm our anxiety.\u00a0 This article is reassuring as it outlines why both positive and negative feelings are contagious and provides us with tools to reset ourselves when our environment\u00a0is making\u00a0it difficult to do so.\u00a0 If you have never tried meditation and would like to, these are five apps with free versions to get you started:\u00a0 headspace; calm; aura; stop, breathe, think; and insight timer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-controls=\"0\" data-card-align=\"center\" data-card-theme=\"light\">\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2020\/03\/anxiety-is-contagious-heres-how-to-contain-it?utm_medium=email&#038;utm_source=newsletter_daily&#038;utm_campaign=dailyalert_activesubs&#038;utm_content=signinnudge&#038;referral=00563&#038;deliveryName=DM73111\">Anxiety Is Contagious. Here&#8217;s How to Contain It.<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>As my class began on Thursday (March 10 th), I looked around at my undergraduate and graduate students. Their faces were somber. I asked how they were doing, but I already knew. Harvard and Princeton had, days earlier, announced that they were closing in response and as a precaution to the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite\u00a0our best\u00a0efforts to remain calm and rational in uncertain\u00a0times, social media, constant\u00a0media coverage and the feelings of those around us can derail our best efforts to calm our anxiety.\u00a0 This article is reassuring as it outlines why both positive and negative feelings are contagious and provides us with tools to reset ourselves when our environment\u00a0is making\u00a0it difficult to do so.\u00a0 If you have never tried meditation and would like to, these are five apps with free versions to get you started:\u00a0 headspace; calm; aura; stop, breathe, think; and insight timer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/hbr.org\/resources\/images\/article_assets\/2020\/03\/Mar20_18_1159576454-2.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Anxiety Is Contagious. Here\u2019s How to Contain It.","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[386,407,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-8789","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wellness","8":"tag-emotionalwellness","9":"tag-coivid-19","10":"tag-wellness"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8791,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8789\/revisions\/8791"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}