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...
Some of u know that feom an earlier post of mine, i decided to try all anxiety and panic coping methods ive researched and collected. The traditional ones, and the crazy ones that most think are a joke.
What works for me may not work for anyone else, i realize this...but i feel like maybe someone will try one if them and it may just work! THAT is the drive for doing it.
First of all, what may be the most helpful but has many different variations is breathing exercise. So many different types and instructions are very hard to figure out. It seemed to help me, but i know im not doing it exactly right, so i continue to work at it...
I will list my results from the other techniques in follow up posts to keep it somewhat short.
My cure hasn't been mentioned here so I'm going to mention it. it's the 'primitive' cure.
Imagine you are cave dude in a cave. And you feel crap. What would you do?
you would just feel crap wouldn't you. You haven't read your nietsche. You haven't watched your freud movies or listened to your wholeness tapes. you'd just feckin feel crap for a while.
And then you'd stop feeling crap. And then you'd go and do things that you do.
This is the environment we evolved in. But now we're in a modern environment where we block our emotions. We don't cry, we don't let ourselves feel. We don't let ourselves process. We keep ourselves overstimulated. We stay up all night playing spacey games and drag ourselves to work in the morning. We don't garden, we don't bushwalk, we don't swim in rivers.
In short we give ourselves severe emotional malnutrition. We give ourselves emotional scurvy. And then we get all surprised when our metaphorical teeth fall out.
it's no surprise. We're all up in our heads. We're all, scuse french, full of shit. We need to shut, scuse french, the firetruck up, go dig the fecking garden.
Too much talk. Too many words. Not enough acceptance and processing and did I mention acceptance? Silent acceptance.
Go lie under a tree. Go away for the weekend with a backpack. Get out of this fake western world and reground with the earth and the dirt and the soil, have a cave dude weekend and see what it has to offer.