Hello everyone I'm having a bit of a rough go and was wondering If you guys have any tips on meditation. I've definitely dabbled but sometimes the the meditation body scans are a lot for me..I kind of like ones that have positive affirmations but I feel like they are hit and miss. Also a side note I find certain lofi music..the super chill kind help. Any kind of feedback and tips would be so appreciated 🫶
Look into Thich Nhat Hanh, who developed a lot of different mindfulness techniques that are very compassionate. It’s going to A WHILE to get the hang of meditation and mindfulness, and even when you do, you’ll be stressed one day and think you have meditation/mindfuless down to a T and then that one day, you sit down to do a practice and you bawl your eyes out—that is normal. Everything you feel as you meditate and practice mindfully is okay to feel and experience, but detached, as an observer. You are not the emotion or sensation; you are watching/feeling it as it passes by—and it always passes, eventually.
You make some good points..I remember balling my eyes out with some of the affirmations when I was having a terrible day.
Thank you for the book recommendation and tips appreciate you :)
@Lean_into_the_unknown It happens to me too! Just let it come and go—don’t make those feelings and sensations your whole existence because they’re not. They are just there for now, not forever. Everything is temporary.
My husband listens to sofi music every night before he sleeps ! And this is a hard practice for us who have OCD to be able to sit in silence but it is a spiritual discipline, I am a Christian and I know you may not be but how I practice my mediation is it actually helps my healing. I simply just go on my yoga mat or you can just do it on the floor. Criss cross apple sauce and close your eyes and literally just let your mind take you till you can find your focus on one particular thing. Essentially it was like ERP before it existed because you will start to feel the pain that the anxiety causes in your body and I feel it in my lower back , my neck and shoulders and I just allow myself to sit on that thought and I sometimes cry but crying is also healing too sometimes we just need it. And I’m able to have that thought and realize it’s something I either needed to let go of or still work on the process to let go. If you’re looking for meditation to be more peaceful I normally go outside to my favorite pond or place and I put instrumental worship on but for you , you could put on sofi at a park bench or put on affirmations. YouTube has so much to offer maybe even try rain sounds or things you might find peaceful. Keep trying till you find your groove !
Does anyone like go through waves. Your mind is super silent maybe a couple of thoughts but you are able to brush it off? But then out of nowhere your mind just starts rushing with every thought? If so, how do you cope with this? It drains me.
whats up guys what are some tips dealing with ocd and what to do when a thought makes u anxious ??
Here is what I say to people: I wish I could make it stop. I really do. I also wish I could stop tinnitus. What is tinnitus, you may ask? Well, have you ever gone to a loud concert and after it had a ringing in your ears. Or, in movies when a loud explosion hears, first it is often muffled, and then there is a very loud ringing sound. Well, I have hear that sound for over 30 years. Turns out the medications I took as a kid for allergies and all the antibiotics I was on for Strep had a side effect for some people - tinnitus - that sound that I have heard every decade, year, month, day, hour, and second, for the past 30 years. I have learned to live with it. As I type this, it is REALLY loud, because I am paying attention to it. But, in a few minutes it will fade into the background, and, while I will hear it, I will not pay much attention to it, and therefore I will go on with my night. I will listen to music, practice my story for the MOTH radio hour, and work out. I will clean up the kitchen and load the dishwasher, and I will eventually get ready for bed. I will go to bed hearing that sound, and fall asleep for a few hours until tomorrow morning when I start the day all over again. I cannot make the sound stop. There is nothing to do for it - no surgery or medication. Just learning to live with it, and that is what I have done. It is the thing that I hate the most in my life, and, if granted three wishes, it would be the first thing to change. For now, as I have for 30 years, I will live with it, and I will ask you to live with your noises in your head - the thoughts, the images, and the urges, and we will practice together accepting that things are not always as we want them, but we can handle that. We got this.
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