Meditation: Letting go in the treatment of anxiety disorders |
- Letting go in the treatment of anxiety disorders
- Does anyone use Insight Timer here? Who are your favorite teachers?
- Let go of thoughts and emotions
- Dropped cigarettes 3 weeks ago because of focused self awareness
- Made it through 40 minutes!
- a little realization I had today
- What should I actually do when I catch myself thinking of something destructive?
- Does meditation help in better visualization?
- Struggling with meditation
- What does it mean when your face start to tingle and your body begins to go numb?
- 6 days running + 5 days meditating resulted in a breakthrough today.
- How to think nothing?
- I’m new and have some questions
- Length of each of my breath
- Is meditation holding your focus at one point?
- Contemplation as Meditation
- Looking for advice on meditation techniques
- finally a really strong session
- Seeking help for meditation
- Any good stoic guided meditations?
- Walking meditation.
- Rapid involuntary eye movements while meditating
- Body shaking while meditating
- Need some help :(
| Letting go in the treatment of anxiety disorders Posted: 14 May 2020 01:50 PM PDT I wasn't sure where to post this on reddit but figured that this might be a good place where my experiences may resonate with people. I suffer from mental illness which includes an anxiety disorder which is difficult to treat. I've dabbled with the sedona method and David hawkin's letting go in the past and to a lesser extent, the release technique. Out of everything I have tried, I really do think that acceptance/non resistance of anxiety is an incredibly useful way to deal with it. When you just allow it to be there without wanting to change it every time in comes up, it just seems dissolve and one becomes lighter and more present. It seems like people with anxiety disorders have an overactive 'default mode network' and I think such techniques can dismantle it over time. What I also realised is that when you resist negative emotions such as fear, anger and grief, you end up resisting positive emotions too so you get neither positive or negative. Let go and allow things to be. Just my 2 cents! Hope it might help someone. [link] [comments] |
| Does anyone use Insight Timer here? Who are your favorite teachers? Posted: 14 May 2020 04:51 AM PDT When I can't get myself to do breathing awareness or body scans, I find that guided meditations always do the trick. Does anyone else use the Insight Timer app here? I'd love to know who your favorite teachers are, or any specific go-to tracks. Mine would be Sarah Blondin (Learning to Surrender, Accepting Change) and Jennifer Piercy (almost all her Yoga Nidra sessions). I'd like to hear more suggestions from a meditation group! :) xo [link] [comments] |
| Let go of thoughts and emotions Posted: 14 May 2020 06:42 PM PDT Notice when a thought or emotion is stronger than others. Notice your body's reaction to it. Let it be. Observe it. It's not you. It's a remnant of a layer that no longer serves you. Let it go. [link] [comments] |
| Dropped cigarettes 3 weeks ago because of focused self awareness Posted: 15 May 2020 02:30 AM PDT I never smoked much, maybe 3/4 cigarettes a day or when I'm out with friends. Since quarantine I've been smoking much much more so I decided I wanted to stop and for the last couple of months nothing worked so I just accepted the fact I was now a smoker and pushed dealing with it until after the pandemic, well then just a couple weeks ago I've slipped back into bringing myself into the present moment and really feeling my inner energy field and practicing mediation more often. I never thought this skill would be useful for quitting smoking. every time I had a cigarette I would sit down in complete silence and observe my inner mind and body as I smoked. Well, it didn't take me long to realise that smoking doesn't even feel good, actually it fogs my head up, makes me light headed and it's as if I've been told some terrible news like there is a ball of anxious energy clung to my soul. I realised 3 weeks ago while having a cigarette that all it was doing was creating pain and actually that disgusting feeling was some bad energy that I myself was literally forcing into my body and providing nothing beneficial to me, I've come to love the clear mindedness mediation brings and cigarettes completely got in the way. Haven't touched a ciggy since , I'm astonished at how easy it was to stop once I was honest enough with myself [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 14 May 2020 05:59 AM PDT I'm trying really hard to get into a regular practice. It's just so hard for me to still my mind. I can normally go for about 10 minutes. My local insight meditation center was hosting a Zoom drop-in and I decided to sign on. It was 40 minutes - the longest I've ever sat, but I did it! It was so freaking hard as I'm such a daydreamer, and my attention did wander a bit at times, but I made it through the whole 40 minutes and felt great! I'm going to try to do their Zoom meetings regularly so I can keep going. No one else in my real life would get why this is such a big deal, so I'm posting it here. I'm really proud of myself! [link] [comments] |
| a little realization I had today Posted: 14 May 2020 01:29 PM PDT If you come from a place of judgment, you'll look at any idea through that lens. So when you're exposed to the idea of acceptance as an alternative, the obvious thing to do is judge that acceptance is better than judgment. so you become this wolf in sheep's clothing, performing all the actions of acceptance but being intrinsically motivated by judgment still. So you might notice you're doing that, and then judge the fact you're using judgment to drive acceptance. So the obvious thing is to "make" yourself intrinsically act from a place of acceptance. Then you realize that's just one level deeper, and you try to fix *that*, which, oops, you got another level deeper again! Repeat ad nauseum. Whereas, the acceptance angle is simply: "I accept that I'm judging something, the end." [link] [comments] |
| What should I actually do when I catch myself thinking of something destructive? Posted: 14 May 2020 11:59 AM PDT I have been meditating recently and I find that I'm more often aware of the state of my mind and am mindful of when I'm ruminating on something destructive. However I haven't really found that this mindfulness allows me to easily stop ruminating on the destructive thing, I'm just more aware that I'm ruminating. My question is, what do you actually do when you find yourself ruminating? Are you just mindful of it and the ruminating fades? Or are you mindful of it and then you consciously try to do something to end the ruminating like actively trying to 'focus on the present moment' or something like that? At the moment I'm not really sure what to do to stop the destructive process. [link] [comments] |
| Does meditation help in better visualization? Posted: 15 May 2020 12:01 AM PDT Hi, Just wondering if mediation helps in sharp and better visualization and imagination. Right now when I imagine things, they seem very weak and fogged and jaggy. I have been through a lot of stress in the past 1. 5 years and before that I used to be very sharp, imaginative and could think clearly. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 14 May 2020 09:23 PM PDT I know I posted about this a couple weeks ago about feeling extremely heavy and weighted down during meditation. I am still struggling with this and it's getting worse sooner and sooner into meditation. It's getting to the point to where my body is feeling like it's getting crushed and I really can't breathe so I have to stop. No matter how much I focus on breathing it just doesn't stop. I've already worked through about all of shadow work I can think of positive and don't have any really negative thoughts. It's getting horrible and making it super hard for me to do this everyday. I can't stop the anxiety after as well. Please any advice would be great thanks [link] [comments] |
| What does it mean when your face start to tingle and your body begins to go numb? Posted: 14 May 2020 11:34 PM PDT I've only been doing mediation for about 5 days now, but since yesterday, when I get into the zone for a few minutes my face begins to go numb and tingle. It got so strong that afterwards, I had a bit of trouble speaking because it was difficult to shape my mouth [link] [comments] |
| 6 days running + 5 days meditating resulted in a breakthrough today. Posted: 14 May 2020 10:43 PM PDT So, I've been trying to meditate for many many years as well as get fit enough to do things like run for a workout. I started couch to 5k a few weeks ago and started Sam Harris' waking up beginner cource 5 days ago. I slacked on the running for about a week, started the meditation course while I was slacking, and then when I went to run today... It was the most difficult run I've done so far in the program, and I was barely able to fight off the voices telling me to give up on it. I would distract myself and or blast back with positives and mindset shifters etc. And again, was barely keeping myself going, when suddenly I started to notice (remember?) That I am not the thoughts in my mind or the feelings in my body. I am the awareness behind them. I was able to seperate myself from the feelings in my body and the signals that it was sending to my brain, without dissasociating, which has been a struggle for me in the past. I slipped a bit for the remaining few minutes of my run, but held pretty strong to the "feeling" of being awareness rather than being in my body/brain. And since then I've just been here, in that headspace. And I feel great here. So that slipping back out of awareness feel terrible, honestly, and I just want to come back to this feeling. Hopefully I am able to maintain it! Meditation is so full of breakthrough feelings and skills and moments. Like waking up an ancient part of your makeup that has all these hidden abilities that you just have to use to keep discovering. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 15 May 2020 02:26 AM PDT Can any veteran meditators explain how to achieve absence of thought while meditation? And in real life. [link] [comments] |
| I’m new and have some questions Posted: 15 May 2020 02:04 AM PDT So I'm pretty new to meditation and all(about 1week). I was doing it while laying down and doing breathing exercises and I lost all thought after a bit of time and was like my mind was empty almost black abyss. I had a weird sensation tho we're my body was there but not at the same time less feeling of it all kind of like a pressure of being not a my body feel is this norm or what [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 15 May 2020 01:36 AM PDT Each inhale and outbreath counts 0.5 seconds. Can that still be taken as a consideration as a vamid meditation session? Isnt that hyperventilation? Im fine by doing fast inhales and exhales. [link] [comments] |
| Is meditation holding your focus at one point? Posted: 15 May 2020 12:17 AM PDT Is meditation basically keeping your focus on one zone, one point? And realizing if you are going out of that zone or moving from that point and bring your focus back to that point? If so, then isn't doing certain activities also considered a form of meditation? For example, coding or programming? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 14 May 2020 08:25 PM PDT I've been wondering if contemplation about any subject could be considered a meditation. I've been playing around with the ideas that activities like cooking or cleaning are a type of meditation, because those activities clear your mind and then complete concentration ensues. I think that contemplation can be a meditation just like those various different activities. It may seem to be the opposite of meditation because it's the opposite as clearing your mind. But I argue that the peace of mind that comes from coming to a conclusion from a contemplation session can bring clearness of mind. Am I correct in my thinking? [link] [comments] |
| Looking for advice on meditation techniques Posted: 14 May 2020 07:46 PM PDT Sorry everyone, there's a lot to unpack with this situation. I have a roughly one year history of severe anxiety/depression. Last summer I was having dizziness issues that seemed to come with dry eyes. Eventually this descended into me believing I had high blood pressure and was nearing a heart attack every time I panicked. After the fall, and lots of treatment, I am a lot better. I have dabbled in meditation, and was using a mantra based meditation on 1 Giant Mind. I still feel unsettled when something feels off. I often find myself noticing my pulse and feeling unsettled by it (I know, it doesn't make much sense). I also have some intrusive thoughts, particularly agoraphobic ones. I feel unsettled when I'm in a position where I could have a medical or panicking incident and have no escape from it, such as highways, etc. I was just wondering if anyone has had any experience with something like this who has found a meditation method that is effective for them. I don't want to stop with that, but I felt that it could be good to do something that would give me peace with that so that I would be able to segue into other forms of meditation. [link] [comments] |
| finally a really strong session Posted: 14 May 2020 02:32 PM PDT i'm quite new, only been meditating for about a month and normally see a few lights flicker across my closed vision and warp around, usually when i'm very focused on the breath yet unfocused on everything. today, however, i just did 25 minutes and like 7-8 minutes in started seeing crazy light patterns and felt extremely relaxed and in check with my breath and body. is this a good sign that i'm making progress? is this a state that i should strive to be in the entire practice? i feel amazing right after which is right now, extremely happy and grateful. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 14 May 2020 11:05 PM PDT Hello guys I'm fairly new to the idea of meditation I'm thinking to do 20 mins morning and 1 hour sleeping but can you guys tell me is this really works? Or am I just wasting my time? [link] [comments] |
| Any good stoic guided meditations? Posted: 14 May 2020 12:26 PM PDT I have recently become more drawn to stoic philosophy, and wonder if you guys could recommend some meditations on mortality, negative visualizations, etc. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 14 May 2020 10:45 PM PDT meditation has helped me a lot to combat anxiety,depression and personal losses.Initially when i hurl myself headlong for a lotus position it was so difficult for me concentrate and sit in one position.My mind was so restless and it would shoot me with its self involved question.Then walking meditation came as a saviour.It helped me to understand how my body reacts to every thought i encounter . Try walking meditation. https://www.brightfulmind.in/how-to-do-walking-meditation-benefits/ [link] [comments] |
| Rapid involuntary eye movements while meditating Posted: 14 May 2020 04:08 PM PDT Today I was meditating when my eyeballs sudden fly started to tremble and move rapidly under my eyelids. This was accompanied by bright pink and yellow colors. Has anyone else experienced something like this/ does anyone know what caused this? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 14 May 2020 04:58 AM PDT Hello! Has anyone experienced shaking head, shoulders etc while meditating? I find it a bit weird and disturbing. For background- I have meditated about 100 hours in total. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 14 May 2020 08:01 PM PDT I seem to be always thinking the worse case scienero whenever something negative happens :( it sucks. And it drains me mentally.. What are somethings you guys do to help you get over this? I've been doing yoga, some meditation, and getting exercise whenever I start to overthink.. But sometimes the thoughts get so bad that I sometimes prevent myself from getting into a relationship because I think of the worse case scienero that can happen .. ( she breaks my heart, she cheats on me, she try's to ruin my life ) This overthinking doesn't allow me to really live my life :( [link] [comments] |
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