Guided meditations for dealing with anxiety In previous blogs I have spoken about the power of focus and concentration, acceptance and curiosity when dealing with anxiety. As a way to help you to continue developing these skills, I have made a list of three guided meditations. I have found them all to be incredibly useful for incorporating [...]
3 Things you can do Right Now if you're feeling anxious Everyone feels anxious sometimes – some people feel anxious far more regularly and intensely than others. If you can recall a time when you were anxious, you probably recognise the immediacy of the experience; how it swarms around you, affecting you physically, cognitively and [...]
Becoming curious about anxiety: Anxious Feelings The physical sensations/feelings that arise when we’re anxious can be incredibly unpleasant and can sometimes seem completely overwhelming. These sensations often include: Butterflies in the stomach Tightness in the chest Weakness in the limbs Sweating and an elevated heart-rate Shaking and trembling Nausea When we experience these sensations, we [...]
Breaking the cycle of anxiety: what we notice when we’re curious In the last blog, I looked at the power of curiosity when dealing with the self-judgement, anger and frustration that often arises when we’re anxious. Curiosity is a great start! But now we can begin to dig a little deeper into what we notice, [...]
Breaking The Cycle of Anxiety with Curiosity In the previous post I talked a little about the ‘close friend’ exercise, as a way of responding to our own anxiety in a more useful and compassionate way. One of the great things about this exercise is that we can take a step back from our anxiety, [...]
Breaking the cycle of anxiety: Acceptance (Part 1) Accepting anxiety may seem a little strange to some of you. You may be thinking something like: I hate having these thoughts and feelings – I don’t want to accept them, I want to get rid of them! But ask yourself: how would you respond to a [...]
Building a relationship with our thoughts – Part 3: Questioning Our Hearts It is estimated that the average human has around 70,000 thoughts per day. We pretty much have an unending dialogue going on in our heads from morning until night (either consciously or subconsciously). So the type of relationship we have with our thoughts [...]
Questioning Our Beliefs about Anger - Part 4 Anger is a very common emotion with a broad range - from mild irritation to explosive wrath. People convince themselves of all sorts of things when it comes to their anger – most of which, if not all, are demonstrably unuseful and damaging. So over the next [...]
Many of us think it is better to let your anger out than to just bottle it up Anger is a very common emotion with a broad range - from mild irritation to explosive wrath. People convince themselves of all sorts of things when it comes to their anger – most of which, if not [...]
Why do I feel anxious and what can I do about it right now? Part 1 Everyone feels anxious sometimes – some people feel anxious far more regularly than others. If you can recall a time when you were anxious, you probably recognise the immediacy of the experience; how it swarms around you, affecting you [...]
