Anxiety Support Group
Anxiety is a physical condition marked by intense and persistent feelings of distress, fear, angst or dread. General anxiety caused by routine day-to-day stresses usually passes quickly and is experienced by almost everyone at one time or another. However, such feelings that linger over time and are very difficult to cope with, and which lack a clear cause, may indicate...
today's meditation from "meditations for people who worry" resonates for me today. thought i'd share.
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feelings
if i knew what i was so anxious about, i wouldn't be so anxious ~mignon mclaughlin
part of the human condition is that sometimes we just feel anxious. we don't know what we are anxious about; we just are anxious. being human, we launch into trying to find out what we are anxious about, because we have deluded ourselves into believing that if we understand our anxiety we can then figure the problem out, and we'll either be all right or we can worry about it.
how disrespectful this process is of ourselves! when we are anxious, we are anxious. the anxiety usually isn't there for no reason. if we let ourselves sit with the feeling and not run from it, often we can move to a new level of working it through that is beyond our brains.
we can begin to see that anxiety isn't an attack, it is a gift of understanding in our being, not just our minds.
feelings are not my enemies. what i do with them is up to me.
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I haven't written in my diary on my computer since May because I thought that my computer was dying. I got away from writing but my computer is hanging in there. I think that I will start writing in it again. It's so therapeutic.
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First, I hope everyone is doing well, and continuing to fight that good fight! Keep up the great work on yourselves; I'm rooting for all of you!So, I started doing therapy at the beginning of the year, when I was in my most depressed state, but with my therapist, I made big changes and steps in the right direction. But, over a month ago, she couldn't take my insurance anymore, and I had to stop...
In my experience, THIS really mirrors how I have ultimately come to make peace with having anxiety. I moved away from trying to figure out the why or what of it all and instead, be ok with the feeling of it all. I kind of got to a place where I realized being uncomfortable is not going to hurt me or kill me.
I still have tools that I apply to manage the anxiety but that ultimate acceptance of it makes it so much easier to co exist with anxiety.
check, reset, onward through the fog. . .
Hell, I just like a metaphor.