Category: Stress and Anxiety
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Anxiety Treatment: Insight
Anxiety Treatment has two parts, meditation and insight. The previous post, Dealing with Anxiety, covered meditation. Here we will go into the psychological side of anxiety treatment. Meditation reduces symptoms very well, but we also need psychological reflection. Reflection helps us with humility and understanding this complex culture. When anxiety is avoided, it comes out…
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Dealing with Anxiety
Meditation and Insight Dealing with anxiety involves two parts, meditation and then the psychological insight. Meditation provides the strength and openness to experience anxiety and not get taken away by it. The goal of this meditation is not to stop the mind but to return over and over, to the breath and body. Then, insight…
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Being Yourself
This is an import passage from Carl Jung about being yourself: “It is no small matter to acknowledge one’s yearning. For this, many need to make a particular effort at honesty. All too many do not want to know where they’re yearning is, because it would seem to them impossible or too distressing. And yet…
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Therapist: Psychotherapist
Soulfulness A therapist can be a mid-wife to the soul. As families and culture get more out of balance, there is a loss of soul. The soul, for all practical purposes is the essence. Sometimes it is easier to know the soul when it is gone, the death of an animal or person. The essence…
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Stress Management: Healthy Use of Imagination
What do I imagine? Stress Management needs a clear perception of the stress, so we can make better choices for ourselves and others. Imagination is usually not considered. From the previous post on stress: All imagine they should be stronger and smarter: For example, someone said to me, “I have five businesses and I am starting…
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Cure anxiety
What approach do I need to cure anxiety? Yes, anxiety is very uncomfortable and in fact, it blocks the enjoyment of life. Everyone has some degree of anxiety even though many worry that they are the only ones. To cure anxiety is to personally experience and understand anxiety. We can remedy anxiety but to cure…
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Anxiety
What is anxiety made of? When we first feel into our anxiety, there can be an experience of shaking. Sometimes it can be experienced as a tension in the body that is very sensational. It is unavoidable in our dreams. Also, it is usually experienced as unpleasant, such as a knot in the stomach, a…
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Meditation, Foreground/Background
The Dalai Lama describes meditation practice as: “Try to remain in the natural state. This is a bit like a river which is flowing quite strongly, in which you cannot see the bed of the river clearly. If there was some way you could put an immediate stop to the flow from the direction the…
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Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Generalized anxiety disorder, as defined by the Mayo Clinic http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/generalized-anxiety-disorder/DS00502 is very clear and simple. The symptoms include constant worrying, obsession over small things, and trouble sleeping to mention a few. This disorder is a group of symptoms that can be controlled by the individual, enabling you to reduce or eliminate medication. The treatments I…
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Meditation and Relaxation
Different and the same Meditation and relaxation are two different activities. But here, I would like to explain their sameness. In other words, relaxing is meditating. The problem is misunderstanding relaxation and how to deeply relax. It is helpful to get away from the tension sometimes, but to go toward the tension and relax into…
