May 13, 2008
Treating Anxiety With Meditation
Treating anxiety is very simple! You'll experience anxiety with your own self imposed obsessive negative thoughts or conditioned emotional reactions to outside events.
In other words, you can become anxious because of your own thought process. For example, if you think often, 'Oh my God, what will the future hold for me about this thing or that, this event or that', you'll feel anxiety.
On the other hand, if you think over some situation or event that happened in the past, you will become anxious. For example, if you were bitten by a dog in your child hood, you will become very anxious if you see a dog even now.
So anxiety is the result of mind reflection over past or future.
The physical effect of stress and tension are very damaging to your body. But there's nothing to worry! You can attend and treat anxiety with meditation.
Meditation is better than drugs or years of psychotherapy.
How To Meditate?
Early morning is the ideal time to meditate. Yet, any convenient regular time will do. Choose a place that's completely private, free from undue noise and free from interruptions of any kind.
Sit upright with your spine relatively straight—on a bed, on the floor, on a cushion, or in a chair (whichever is most comfortable to you).
Next, close your eyes and relax for a moment. This calms your body and mind.
After sometime, your subconscious mind starts revealing itself. Then be alert and attentive. Be a witness for your own mind revelations. See the thoughts and emotions as mere thoughts and emotions rather than 'me' and 'mine'.
Don't interfere with that 'let-in-go' process. You have to meditate like this every day.
You need great patience. Don't say, "I've meditated for a week now still no change", "I can't control my mind", "My mind is only getting crazier or I cannot get rid of negative thoughts and tension etc." Just learn to be patient with all these.
Then one day you will go beyond your mind. You will realize the gentle pure silence at the core of your being. That's the end of anxiety, panic attack and every problem.
Remember, anxiety comes and goes (It's rarely continuous). But the pure silence within you is always there. It's always permanent.
So practice meditation and treat your anxiety for ever!
Filed under General Anxiety by Mike
