anxiety

[Guest guest]

Greetings, any suggestions on techniques to use to help overcome a

mild anxiety disorder? This is a broad field, so a bit more

specifically, it concerns mental "agitation", and unease, and alot of

intense energy around the 3rd and 4th chakras. I've been working with

the techniques of Kundalini Yoga in different contexts for about 15

years.

 

Kind Thanks

Oren

[Guest guest]

Dear Oren:

 

 

 

I haven't seen any answers to your query. Perhaps you have received

something offline that answered your question.

 

 

 

First, have you checked our archives? We have posted several things

regarding anxiety in the past. Please do take a look.

 

 

 

Second, I avoid labels such as: "I have anxiety disorder" or "I am bipolar".

I'll tell you why. We don't change by looking at what seems wrong with us,

we change by focusing on who we wish to be and letting go of the rest.

Diagnostics can be useful if someone is about to die and truly wants to

live. Then we need to do something quick create some kind of intervention.

But even then a lot of people have shown success by simply filling the

person with unconditional love and bliss.

 

 

 

So it is not that you don't recognize the agitation, but you allow it to

move through you as you remind yourself what it is you wish to do or be. A

mundane example is this: Imagine being in an exam and half way through the

exam you realize that you won't have time to do it all. You start feeling

anxiety rising through your whole body. The agitation is such that your mind

can't focus. Then you can choose to stay there and worry, or you can notice

the agitation and remind yourself that you have this much time to do the

best you can with what you know and not worry about the outcome. Others

might be in the same situation and overall the teacher will have to grade

according to what people have been able to do. In other words, it is not in

your hands. But what is in your hands is what you do know and to make sure

you give it all you got for the remaining time of the exam period. Then your

mind can focus. You can make a choice.

 

 

 

Whenever you encounter this feeling of "mild anxiety", just notice what you

are reacting to, what your options are, and give up what you don't have

control over. If you don't have control over it, it is probably not your

responsibility. Allow those whose responsibility it is to do their job for

the best of everyone involved including yourself. Trust that we all work

together! It is an awesome feeling when you can learn to trust that others

are just a part of the larger game you are involved in and that this game is

team work. You don't have to know who belongs to this "team". Just rejoice

in acknowledging the shared responsibility! Rejoice in your own

contributions without judging them.

 

 

 

Speaking of contributions! They do not have to be perfect or even right.

Whatever you contribute is part of a chain reaction of contributions that

the whole team/world around you needs in order to come to the best decision

for all. So just contribute with what feels right to you in the moment

without concerns of whether it is actually right or wrong or useful or not

useful. If you feel moved inwardly, bring it out to the light!

 

 

 

Blessings, Awtar

[Guest guest]

Awtar that was a good answer,i have a different problem,i have trouble sleeping 8 hrs at a stretch for the last yr or so,especially during nites when i have to work the next day or have some task in the morning to take care.

It all started when one day i didnt sleep well cause i was anxious and the next day was awful cause i was so tired,then everytime i had something to do the next day my mind kept going on that awful night and start reliving that insomnia over and over,because of this i have been avoiding lot of productive things and its causing me lot of loss moneywise ,do you have a suggestion for this?

Lot of things been happening to me,good and bad and im very excited most of the times that i make progress and then i loose sleep and waste the next day,i want this to stop soon.Any good advice from anyone?