Your Friend Is Looking for Ways to Reduce Their Anxiety

Your friend is looking for ways to reduce their anxiety. They have tried lots of different kinds of medications and conventional therapies with limited success. You suggest they try a technique that focuses on developing mindfulness. In theory, what is one explanation for why practicing mindfulness can reduce anxiety?

A) by increasing the physiological response to stress
B) by reducing the physiological response to stress
C) by focusing so much attention on your stress that the body experiences a sort of breaking point and becomes forced to change out of necessity
D) by reducing cognitive dissonance
E) by increasing cognitive dissonance