I have had anxiety for a couple years now and have been working on learning skills to help myself manage the feelings that I get from it. The counselor who I see at my school's health center recently suggested to me that I attend a mindfulness meditative group that another counselor runs. I have only attended two meetings so far and it is something that is difficult for me to do. I am finding that a lot of uncomfortable feelings and thoughts that I usually try to avoid or ignore arise out of the stillness of the meditation. The meditation is providing me with a path to sit with those thoughts and feelings, whether it is to work on changing them or just accepting that they are there and thinking about them. The meditation is causing me to run towards the discomfort instead of away from it which I usually do, which I am beginning to understand is very beneficial. While I find that meditation is difficult to get into I feel that once it becomes a consistent practice it will prove to be very beneficial in terms of learning coping skills, learning about the anxiety and stressful thoughts/emotions, and just learning how to be more relaxed.

I have learned to visualize the bad things that affect my stress levels and have learned that I can take control of what happens mostly after it does so that I will not let it have a lasting effect on me. I see the negative as solid and can watch it as it moves along away from me. This is a form of visualization that I use that at first did not work. I kept with it. Now..it does. I hope this will help for you.

I also do meditation regularly with yoga. It makes me emotionally balanced, increase immunity, lowers the bloodpresure. I heard that meditation also helps to improve fertility and provides calmness to the body. Sometimes I also prefer to go for a massage as it is also helpful in reducing stress and depression.

I have been going through some stressful times lately. I got to therapy every two weeks and go to a CBT group every week. It's been helping. I journal a lot and also listen to meditation music on youtube. It's helps me get in touch with myself and calms me. This is a good place for me. I hope you continue listening to the music and find stillness.

I like the reply about listening to music, it is an escape from my thoughts, a relief. Being in a quiet place helps to blot out stressful noises. Loud jarring noises make me feel stressed. I listen to quiet music. Something calm, simple, if it's repetitive, that helps me from not analyzing the different sounds and getting wound up. Instrumentals, some classical, if it's a simple, slow, and calm.
I always feel to agitated to meditate, impatient, so music is my stress buster, I don't have to do anything but listen. I lack motivation to meditate, and used to feel guilty about that but realized that was stressing me out even more. I don't put pressure on myself to meditate anymore, just do what works for me.

About cleansing a home of negative energies, I like to be organized, a place for everything so I can find it. Less furniture, clutter, posters, wall art, less knickknacks, clear tabletops, pillows on my couch, TV mostly off. Too much "stuff" is negative for me