Short-circuiting Stress and Anxiety

[gleason9guy]

I made what I thought was an interesting discovery this evening as I was mentally in a place of extreme stress and anxiety. This had been going on for hours and I was feeling quite uneasy. I found myself at odds with myself as I experienced a struggle against some quite negative thoughts. But when I reached to point to force support of the thought, "who is experiencing this stress?", I incessantly began asking myself that question and I broke through to a place of commanding control. It took a few attempts, but I was able to short-circuit regions of my brain that were being activated causing my stress and anxiety. For in asking myself who was the experiencer, it was evident my awareness was separate from the part of me experiencing the stress. Thus, the realization that I have a part of me in control and able to direction my emotional battle was empowering enough to balance out those feelings and to calm myself..

Perhaps someone can remember this during a similar stressful time, and have the same success that I did with it.

[Agora1]

Thanks for your post. I believe each one of us has a way to change

our thought process. You did good by finding a way to beat that thought

and achieve calm.

Thanks for sharing gleason xx

[Starrlight]

At one point in life I focused on meditation class and positivity. It retrained my brain. Now I have these intrusive thoughts, I think from ocd. I feel stuck. Trying to be positive and gain the motivation to meditate. Thanks for the post Gleason.