restart working .... how can I avoid being anxious about my anxiety?

[grucio]

Tricky question because I am in a tricky situation in which I should restart working. I wish to avoid my anxiety. How can I deal this problem without antidepressant?

What about yoga?

[Yankee_Doodle]

Yoga and other forms of exercise and relaxation can always help minimise the anxiety you are feeling. Other ideas to help can be found here anxietyuk.org.uk/about-anxi...

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Hi grucio,

We can't avoid anxiety, its part of us, and we can't fight it either.

But what we certainly can do is

FACE IT and not run from it, and

ACCEPT it, without fighting it

FLOAT throught it without tensing, and

LET TIME PASS allow the anxiety to run its course, and it will abate.

This sounds simple but its not, so we do this, as a practice everyday, whatever the situation, good ones or bad.

Anxiety is an unpleasant state of inner turmoil, often accompanied by nervous behavior, such as pacing back and forth, somatic complaints and rumination.

Basically, we have to get do the opposite of this by getting to know ourselves again, and be KIND to ourselves, like we would nuture a little baby child

Inner turmoil, is us fighting our thoughts, so what we do is go with them, not by judging/acting on them just by sitting with them, and allowing them to pass. Meditation is perfect for this.

Nervous behaviour, when we calm ourselves this abates, meditation is great for this too.

Somatic complaints, are percieved illness and strange pains, meditation is good for this too. If we have a pain, our minds run away from it, then it gets more painful because we have the pain, then add to it our aversion to the pain. If we look straight into the actual pain, we see it for what it is, and its not half as bad as we thought.

Rumination, our minds constant chatter, we create this ourselves, by finding stillness in the mind, the thoughts become less powerfull and actually calm down too. Meditation is perfect for this.

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We can't order ourselves about and expect it to do our bidding, thats fighting ourselves.

Say we order ourselves to not get ill, can we do that , no, the only way we could ever minimalise our chances of getting ill is by maintaining an immune system at top performance, and to do that we must, eat healthily, exercise, relax, and get good sleep. anxiety is the opposite of that.

Try some meditation, be kind to yourself, ask your doctor for some therapy so you can understand anxiety better.

Hope something there makes sense

Wishing you well

B

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[grucio in reply to Hidden]

Thank you.

G

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Cant add more

Just wanted to say welcome to the site G

Keep talking , everyone understands & it can be a huge help

Love

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[grucio in reply to Hidden]

totally agree!

Cheers,

G

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[Cookster99 in reply to Hidden]

Yoo no wot a meen ;-P Why yoos my girl

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Cookie be good

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[Hidden in reply to grucio]

Just wanted to say , we are serious & help each other on here

We do have a joke as well , as its good to laugh

So if you notice our friend Cookie , she is quite the joker

Hope you will get to no us all & feel like joining in sometime's

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I meant no offence G, we do like a laugh on here and I would like to welcome you to the site. Xxxx keep posting and letting us know how you get on.

Best wishes xxx Cookie

[Makaluu]

great advice from baylien! i'm off to do some meditation now

try this site for some free instruction

susanpiver.com/open-heart-p...