Mindfulness for Anxiety: Observing Your Worry
Focus on and take a deep breath. In our modern society there is no doubt that anxiety is one of the most prevalent and rampant afflictions affecting people today. Whether it be general anxiety disorder, or specific to an event or cause, anxiety can cripple your ability to live in joy and experience life in a positive manner. Mindfulness for anxiety allows you to start to tackle this anxiety head on.
Most anxiety starts with you thinking about the past or worrying about the future. Am I going to get fired, why did that person leave me, what am I doing with my life!?!? The mind, trapped in itself, begins to have regret about this past, or worries about this future and in doing so takes you away from the present moment. As you read in earlier writings, mindfulness is that ability to live in the here and now and appreciate your life as it unfolds. It is also a meditation technique that is a tool to conquer this debilitating anxiety.
For modern life we want to make this practical not just theoretical and therefore give you specific activities to develop your mindful anxiety busting skills! First off, if you have a pen and paper, sit for a moment and take deep breath in front of this paper. Take a few more deep breaths. Now write down the thing or things that you are anxious about. If you don’t have paper and want an immediate fix, just say these things out loud.
Once you have a few or even just one thing you are anxious about. Sit down, take a few more deep breaths and imagine what the worst case scenario feels like that is causing you the anxiety. Sit with the emotions that arise whether it be fear, or stress, or guilt. Let the emotion that fuels the anxiety overwhelm you soon it will disappear and only you will be left behind. You are not your emotions, you are the one experiences this emotion, this anxiety. If you try to fight it, it will overpower you, if you let it be, it will let you be. That is the nature of the mind. Fight it and you will lose, let it be still, and you will be free.
If there is a specific event or time you are worried about, bring your mindfulness to this feeling only, again picture yourself in the scenario as best you can. Now clench all your muscles as much as you can without straining, as you picture this event again, relax everything. Do this several times, over several days. Then when you feel this anxiety creep up, you are mindful of the feeling, and can now remember what is actually feels like to relax. You are training yourself to deal with the anxiety instead of ignore it!
Most anxiety starts with you thinking about the past or worrying about the future. Am I going to get fired, why did that person leave me, what am I doing with my life!?!? The mind, trapped in itself, begins to have regret about this past, or worries about this future and in doing so takes you away from the present moment. As you read in earlier writings, mindfulness is that ability to live in the here and now and appreciate your life as it unfolds. It is also a meditation technique that is a tool to conquer this debilitating anxiety.
For modern life we want to make this practical not just theoretical and therefore give you specific activities to develop your mindful anxiety busting skills! First off, if you have a pen and paper, sit for a moment and take deep breath in front of this paper. Take a few more deep breaths. Now write down the thing or things that you are anxious about. If you don’t have paper and want an immediate fix, just say these things out loud.
Once you have a few or even just one thing you are anxious about. Sit down, take a few more deep breaths and imagine what the worst case scenario feels like that is causing you the anxiety. Sit with the emotions that arise whether it be fear, or stress, or guilt. Let the emotion that fuels the anxiety overwhelm you soon it will disappear and only you will be left behind. You are not your emotions, you are the one experiences this emotion, this anxiety. If you try to fight it, it will overpower you, if you let it be, it will let you be. That is the nature of the mind. Fight it and you will lose, let it be still, and you will be free.
If there is a specific event or time you are worried about, bring your mindfulness to this feeling only, again picture yourself in the scenario as best you can. Now clench all your muscles as much as you can without straining, as you picture this event again, relax everything. Do this several times, over several days. Then when you feel this anxiety creep up, you are mindful of the feeling, and can now remember what is actually feels like to relax. You are training yourself to deal with the anxiety instead of ignore it!
Mindfulness for Anxiety Affirmation
Mindfulness for Anxiety Affirmation: I am not my anxiety, I am the one observing the anxiety. I can choose to let it go at any moment.
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