Posted on 03/11/2016 5:29:19 AM PST by conservativeimage
What, these barnacles? Pay them no mind. They're lesser mortals trapped in a single frame of mind with the singular goal of self gratification through the mockery of others. Turkeys compared to eagles. My only concern is that their comments could prevent someone who's really hurting from getting better.
Wow, that was a really positive article on Roy from wikipedia. I was expecting to see slander.
Wikipedia has some neutrality standards, though you’re right with regard to the more controversial subjects.
Needless to say, it’s not a primary source by any means either. It’ll give you just enough info to start researching stuff.
By the way, just to be clear, I’m not an advocate of meditation and do not practice it myself at all.
This is a decent one.
Years ago I used to do this thing that I called ‘grounding’. I’d plant both feet flat on the floor, press my hands onto a hard surface (like a counter or a table), then breathe. As I focused on the cool, hard surface and counted my breaths, I could usually get anxiety under control pretty fast.
Yes, I like that too. You’re engaging your senses in order to disengage from the vortex of what’s going on in your head. There is one concern though, that the hand pressing is essentially a tension and you could be conditioning yourself to react to anxiety with tension which is the wrong direction. Unless you meant a very gentle pressure, just enough to notice which would be okay. Try the 7 minute exercise at antidoteforall. It involves the hands and no tension at all. Once a person gets the principle down they don’t need any kind of plans or devices in order to cope. Thanks Marie!
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