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 !
I’m having a big OCD relapse and would like to hear anyone’s tips on how to be present and healthily deal with these intrusive thoughts and the “need” to preform compulsions. Thank you!!
My ocd gets so loud in the silence and right before bed when there’s no distractions. I always struggled with anxiety since my teens and guided meditation used to help… until OCD. First time trying guided meditation with OCD I had an intrusive thought of “what if you actually lose control and can’t follow these instructions?” And got even more anxious 🫠🫠🫠 had to stop, and haven’t tried to meditate ever since. Just curious to know. Sometimes I feel like I have the worst type of OCD. It will latch onto anything to make me anxious!
For a while now, I've been having trouble concentrating... especially when studying... so I'd play the sound of rain or a forest or something similar to distract myself, and when I'd finish and turn it off... a pile of thoughts would come back to me as if they'd piled up on me!!! Anxiety, rituals... what should I do?
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