Have you tried meditation ? Can you share your technique ?
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Meditative Breathing is a simple yet deceptively powerful technique that can be used for relaxation. When practiced on a daily basis, it will also change your relationship with your thoughts. This can aid in emotional regulation by helping you "see" the true nature of your thinking mind, which is: Your mind has a mind of its own and not all your thoughts are helpful or even true. In addition, as you meditate and become distracted by thoughts, you will practice letting go of them, which will also help with emotional regulation. After all, it is frequently the inability to let go of certain patterns of thinking that fuels anxiety, depression, and anger.
How to Practice Meditative Breathing
1.Assume a comfortable sitting posture.
2.Close your eyes, keep your spine straight, and let your shoulders drop a bit.
3.Bring your attention to your belly, noticing it rise gently with each in-breath and fall with each out-breath. The rise and fall of your abdomen as you breathe will be the focus of this meditation.
4.Keep the focus on your breathing - the rise and fall of the belly - “being with” each in-breath for its full duration and with each out-breath for its full duration, as if riding the waves of your own breathing.
5.Every time you notice your attention has wandered, notice where your attention has gone, then gently bring it back to the rise and fall of the belly as you breathe.
6.If your mind wanders a hundred times, then your “job” is simply to bring it back, non-judgmentally, a hundred times. By non-judgmentally I mean you do not judge the fact that your mind has wandered - because that's what minds do! You simply bring your attention back to the rise and fall of your belly without judgment.Like (3)
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Thanks... i like to stare at the candle... it really focuses my mind but i can't light a candle always... have you been meditating regularly?Like (1)
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For the last few years and it has taken a while to just naturally slip into doing it and clear my mind
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yes, go hummmmmmmmm. it really works
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Meditation happens.
I find many people think it's an act of the mind we're used to when awake normally but it's kind of like looking at those old 3d posters... the more you try and force it the less 3d you see. You can't fight and control thoughts as much as recognize the process and allow it to proceed to end. When it comes it comes but maybe not for a long time of calm practice.Like (2)
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I meditate. What i do is I find a nice place and get comfy. I imagine a dumpster. Then I imagine myself writing down all of my troubles and throwing them away one by one.
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yes,but no help
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Posted by fishsweeper Aug 13th, 2012 at 3:11AM
Getting to 'zero point' isn't as difficult as the people who write books and give you lessons would have you believe. Just start with an environment in which you can relax... like lying on your couch or bed.
Imagine yourself as being on a 10- flight set of stairs. The conscious, nervous (or maybe normal) you is on the top step. Relax,and when you're ready, take a step down. Stay there for a while and just enjoy a bit of calmness. Then proceed to take another step down, and down and down, etc... until you reach the bottom step or floor, relaxing and 'letting go' each time you move downward.
Big, slow, deep breaths and total exhalation are essential to moving downward. The only problem is that once you get to the bottom, you need an alarm to get you back 'up' because you won't really want to come 'home' once you've hit bottom.
It may take some practice at first... but believe me... this technique works!
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