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Meditation
Anyone know a good meditation for OCD
Anyone know a good meditation for OCD
This is one my therapist suggested for me. You can also search for it by searching 'light streaming meditation.' https://youtu.be/aJxlRiJvR-U?si=3qzJGVqXd6Z5ehz3
Insight Timer or Calm are great apps to try out.
I second the calm app recommendation. I like that app a lot.
My therapist said that meditation is not recomendded for OCD because you are already in your head
Perhaps different thoughts by different providers. I've heard psychologists say the first step with ocd is to get the cortisol levels down. It does make sense that you may not want to be so much in your head when working on erp, but I know myself, I was pretty stuck when I first reached out for help. I'm working on erp now, and my anxiety is much lower than a year ago, so I can consider taking steps now that would have been unthinkable a year ago. Just sharing my thoughts.
@Blaublumen I haven’t heard that as being the point of meditation. You aren’t supposed to be in your head—you are learning to detach from your thoughts and simply observe them. That’s meditation and mindfulness.
@Nica Yeah you’re right, i just shared my therapist’s opinion
If there was a possibility of curing your ocd, would you be willing to enter an altered state of consciousness? This can be done through breathing meditations, polyvagal therapy and psilocybin mushroom use in a professional and guided setting. It may be a very negative and intense experience and feel worse than any exposure you've ever done for ocd, but if done right, you'll come out ocd free. Would any of you be interested in that?
I am learning to shift my center of awareness from trying to control my obsessions to observing my obsessions…the art of detachment. When it comes to OCD, we need to no longer identify with the mind and instead zoom out as the observer…not a critic or judger of the mind who needs to figure it out, control it, fear it, feed it, but simply observe it. From there, our freedom lays. This is the gift of developing sacred presence. Not losing ourselves in intrusive thoughts, but transmuting them into presence, awareness, and choice…the choice of compassion in the face of compulsion, courage in the face of uncertainty, and love in the face of fear. Anyone else practicing this type of detachment from the intrusive thoughts and shifting into the observer of the mind instead of prisoner of the mind?
What are peoples experience with meditation and OCD? has it worked? And if so, after how much time did you see results? I've been trying for a month but each time I can't do more than 8 minutes because the thoughts start distressing me and I start FREAKING out.
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