Category: Stress and Anxiety
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The Purpose of Hair Pulling Disorder
“I’m so frustrated, I could pull my hair out!!!” Feeling unbearable frustration and anger. Feeling so overwhelmed that pulling hair feels satisfying and grounding. Hair pulling creates a distraction until there is a better understanding and experience of the under-lying feelings. When feeling angry or frustrated, having stability or a sense of control can seem…
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Suicidal Ideation and Ego Death
Suicidal ideations are ideas, ideas about killing oneself that are mixed with overwhelming emotional pain. I have talked with many people over the years concerning suicide and found it was an opportunity to examine the unexamined. In our conversations we looked at where these ideas were coming from and how they were mixed up with…
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Time for a Little Help
In a 2001 World Health Organization mental health report, it was estimated that, in the year 2000, obsessive compulsive disorder or OCD was among the top 20 causes of illness-related disability, worldwide, for individuals between 15 and 44 years of age. http://www.ocdeducationstation.org/ocd-facts/incidence-of-ocd The Mayo Clinic describes Obsessive Compulsive Disorder in the following: Obsession symptoms OCD obsessions…
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Fear and Emotional Maturity-page 2
In the previous post we began looking at how the soul wants to live, but can get buried in fear. This fear is based on hurt and cultural conditioning that needs to be felt and reevaluated. To start with, most fear in our culture is very unconscious. It is easily seen in male dominated religions,…
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Fear: The Companion We Hate and Secretly Love
Fear is the part of ourselves we need for basic survival, it protects us from danger. Yes, we are afraid of losing our life, health, relationships, and money, of course. It keeps us on our toes. Yet, it can drive us to lose those exact basics we love so much when it operates without our awareness. It…
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Dealing With Anxiety Attacks: Success vs Failure, page 2
Dealing with anxiety attacks starts with the breath. Just to feel the out breath once, then twice, then three times in a row. Trusting the breath creates stability for insight. Then, the insight helps us learn how to live. As you trust this new stability, you can separate more and more from this anxiety. Momentary…
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Anxiety and panic attacks: Success vs failure
Anxiety and panic attacks are a build up of internal pressure, anxious pressure. The anxiety builds to a point that a trigger event will cause a panic attack. In other words, the pressure that was building unconsciously erupts when an event ignites it, feeling like you are going to die or are having a heart…
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Symptoms of anxiety: Feelings of powerlessness
One of the symptoms of anxiety described on WebMd: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/anxiety/DS01187/DSECTION=symptoms, describes the feeling of powerlessness. This is an important symptom to study in ourselves, because it points to big healing in the area of anxiety and over-all wellbeing. When we can feel powerlessness, we have already taken a step toward healing anxiety. Powerlessness is deeper…
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Overcoming Anxiety: Spiritual Anxiety (relation to the unknown)
Overcoming anxiety is a very noble quest. I began by describing three ways of looking at anxiety in the previous posts; personal, cultural and spiritual(relation to the unknown). Religions provide an environment to address spiritual anxiety for the culture. They provide rituals, practices and beliefs to address seemingly unanswerable questions. Such as: What’s life? …
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Anxiety: Personal, Cultural, and Spiritual(relation to the unknown)
In the previous post, I began a way of looking at three levels of anxiety: Personal, Cultural, and Spiritual (relation to the unknown). The last post described an example of some personal anxiety, but it is really impossible to separate the three, because one is based on the other, such as a rock is on…
