oh man, i worry so much! i can never stop! i constantly worry that maybe a friend is mad at me, or im doing bad in school, or ill turn out to be a loner or oh my god i need to stop worrying! ahhh! its driving me crazy! please can someone reccomend something that will stop me from worrying all the time, maybe meditation or some music or something like that???
This is a good question. One I go through as well. What I do is break my actions down to the hour, on work days, and if I have an hour before work, I meditate for a half hour, and I'll tell myself, "There's not a thing in the world that needs to be done for this half an hour, I'm free!" Then I give up cares for just a half an hour so as to meditate. After that the worry can come back if it likes or not. I look forward to the day that I can coast through without any worry. Until then though I make myself spots of non-worry times. Try that maybe!?
Try to associate every worry with the desire that gives birth to it. "why do I worry about what XYXYXYXy thinks? I desire that he/she would like me". Don't see fear or worry as arising without any cause. Once you see the cause is desire, thenyou can let go of desiring it as much, for the sake of your peace of mind. It's maybe impossible to let go of desires, but they can be diminished with intelligence.
whenever my mind gets cluttered i just let it all go and stop thinking. i just let it flow and coast. a great simple thing to remember is that life is too short to worry, so just...don't. just chill, and whenever you begin worrying, just remember that you have better things to do than worry. i can't really describe it, but i've started to get good at it because my whole life i've been a crazy OCD/depressed worrier. but it's all beginning to slowly fade because of the use of my mind. i don't even take medicine or anything. the power is within you. you almost have to kind of separate yourself from the worries. pretend the worries are an actual pysical thing and watch them pass over your head. just clear your mind. meditation is another great thing to do but you have to stick at it to get good. i'm going to start yoga too because you can get the same high that you can get from drugs after years of practice.
...can definietly see where you are coming from. like so, i have a bit of an ocd problem, anxiety... was diagnosed with depression, they put me on paxil... i took it for a bout 3 weeks... i refused to keep takin git, it made me feel like i was numb, id be sad... and not even know why i was sad... i get heated, not even know why i was heated... so i stopped taking them, i told my mom ( RN ) and my doctor, yaknow i wasnt gonna take them anymore... i dont think a person should need a pill to make them feel better... its not chaning anything i think, just putting different chemicals and what not around... tha person should learn ta deal... or find some way of inner peace within themselves... work with how your mind thinks... compromise... tha ocd is still killin me... it bothers me , but then again, tha obsessive- ness prolly keeps me sane i wouldnt be able to stop... i dotn even want to or everything would feel out of place... out of odrer... just not right i started practiceing mindfulness over tha summer... its a good way of meditation, other outlets as well... yoga IS GREAT! its works wonders... lately i have been favoring vinyasa flow yoga tai chi is good too!... i do alot of pilates too it also works for me... other outlets... art...writing...nature...
yeah ocd still gets to me too i can relate. but i've reduced it a whole bunch because as much out of place you feel without giving in to ocd it is so worth it in the long run. i mean if your ocd isn't terrible then i wouldn't worry too much about it. but if it takes over your life just do whatever you can to clear your mind when it's bothering you because you feel so free afterwards. if you give in to the ocd or fight it it will only grow stronger, but if you don't fight the ocd and just let it pass by it gets very weak. i have pure o so all of my obsessions are thoughts within the mind and the rituals are all in my mind too. and i just stop thinking when my mind gets carried away and meditate and afterwards my mind is pure and clear. it's very nice.:sunglasse
