Help with Anxiety and stress

[Guest guest]

One other thing I'd like to share on anxiety and tension.

 

Another way to see it is that anxiety is just a symptom. It's a symptom of

something that we create by own own actions. When we act our of accordance with

our higher purpose and the calling of our spirit, then we create a duality of

purpose and projection, and that reflects back to us to create tension and

stress.

 

But this isn't always our fault per se. The deeper roots of the tension may come

from our childhood and the ways that we coped with our upbringing. There's

always some trauma that we pick up in our lives, and as young children, even

when our parents wanted the best for us, they didn't always know how to deal

themselves with the situation of having a child. Something always happens, and

if not, as children part of our sponge mind searches for and picks something up

anyways - doesn't matter how small.

 

That trauma or wound tends to manifest as a hidden side to ourselves, which

colors our perception of the world around us well into our adult life. That

incongruity with the truth of being human acting in truth in alignment with

Dharma causes us the difficulties in life that we perceive as related to objects

or situations outside of ourselves and outside of our control. That's the lesson

and teaching of Maya.

 

When we can catch side of ourselves, we can actually rather quickly talk

ourselves (or our younger self) into understanding that it need not cause us the

stress and anxiety to attain the attention or disruption needed to gain love. To

catch that side of ourselves we do need to raise our awareness and our ability

of mental introspection, But once you see it, Yogi Bhajan said you could talk it

down in just a weeks time.

 

What are some of the great misconceptions we tell ourselves? That we are not one

with God. That man and nature are separate. That we are our bodies and mind (and

not spirit). These stories and several other pervade, cloud and color our

perceptions (like I'm not good enough, not worthy, etc. etc.) to create fear and

anxiety.

 

Sure, we can elevate those feeling of fear and anxiety by developing our mind,

and also our heart and breath. We can turn the lower manifestation of the Guna

of Vatta (Air) from it's fearful state (sweaty palms, rapid heart beat,

nervousness) into it's higher manifestation of the state of excitement (which

coincidentally has the same symptoms of sweaty palms, rapid heart beat, and

nerves!) through Pranayam.

 

But to effect lasting change, and develop more permanent changes, we truly need

to address the deeper inner wounds of our lives which tend to repeatedly surface

as patterns over and over again and create the conditions for the symptoms of

anxiety to re-surface. One solution comes from deep and continued practice, and

delving into kriyas and meditations with particular focus on clearing the

emotional backlog of anger, inner anger, past hurts, and emotional scarring.

 

I hope that expands your search a bit more to delve deeper into those exercises

that are a bit further from the typical Stress-related issues... Not that you

should avoid those either. It's all needed! But I'd suggest a couple more, like

Kriya to Relieve Inner Anger (Maintenance Book), and the Essence of Self (Inner

Workout Book) are two basic but solid ones that spring to mind. Going forward

from there, the possibilities are as wide open as life itself.

 

Sat Nam and Wahe Guru,

Fateh Singh

 

 

 

Kundalini-Yoga , " Fateh Singh " <fatehsinghnyc wrote:

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> Couple Ideas:

>

> Meditation for a Calm Heart is a good beginners meditation.

> (TT Level I Book p 395). The held breath out reduces blood pressure and

induces calm. Very quick results. Great for couples to practice together to

smooth over relationship stress.

>

> I love the basic stress sets Yogi Bhajan gave us... I regularly teach the

Stress Set for Adrenals and Kidneys (TT Book, pg 350) to people living with HIV

and it takes them from being frustrated and stressed at one moment, and into a

totally calm and free state of mind, even just with 1-minute per exercise.

>

> Also check out the Meditation for Emotional Balance: (TT Book pg 399).

> And the Rejuvenation Meditation: (TT Book pg 448).

>

> Hit the glands, and they will do the work for your students.

>

> Fateh Singh

>

>

> Snip:

> >

> > Greeting from Vermont. I am preparing an 8 week session of KY

> > classes for people who are suffering from anxiety and stress.

>

[Guest guest]

> Sat Nam

> Dear Fateh and list,

> I respect your opinion, yet feel it belongs somewhere in the 60's or 70's.

 

I guess it depends on when you were born. The 60's or 70's?

 

I'm not a psychologist or therapist, but your belief system doesn't change that

there's an entire world of patterns that are picked up due to childhood wounding

and traumas. Applying new science to the idea of anxiety doesn't change the

source of the wounds. Yet, neither did I say childhood traumas was the only

cause. I'm only speaking from experience and from the experiences of teachers

who do this work and who help heal and relieve the pain of hundreds of people

every year. The human mind is complicated, but not infinitely so. Ones belief or

disbelief has little relationship to that.

 

By all means, take a holistic approach, but why self-limit yourself to

" management over cure and success " ? Kundalini yoga offers you the ability and

opportunity to just drop all of that. It could be a very long process, but

there's always hope and a way through every block.

 

Blessings in Wahe Guru,

Fateh Singh

[Guest guest]

Paul and All,

 

I'd just like to share one more thing...

 

When you tag your letters: " an anxiety sufferer " ... That tells a lot about your

perspective on yourself.

 

No person can claim to have a monopoly on suffering... The challenge is to

strive to make ourselves into a case-study for success.

 

In the healing community, it's suggested we should never identify our issues in

the present tense or in self-defining terms. If you want to identify something,

you can say: " I used to have challenges with anxiety, but I'm (or it's) getting

better now " .

 

Once you lock yourself into this hole, it has the potential to create a whole

karmic cycle of continued suffering. We don't really want to suffer, do we? So

why call ourselves " sufferers " ?

 

Our words and thoughts have the power to change and affect everything about

us... It begins with something as small as how your frame yourself, but it

continues on into your entire belief system and affects the world around you. If

you frame things positively, there's no limit to what you can potentially

achieve.

 

That's colorful thinking, and I'm proud of that. Our thinking SHOULD be more

colorful!! Why limit yourself to black and white dreams? That's not the reality

of life... But your words and thoughts have the power or not to affect your

reality... So...

 

Choose them colorfully! ... Vibrate the light, spread the light, be the light.

 

Blessings,

Fateh Singh

 

 

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Kundalini-Yoga , " beautiful22 " <22taro wrote:

management over cure and success and colourful dreams. There is so so much

more to this, like biology, planetary affects, even society.

> From an anxiety sufferer,

> Paul

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