Wednesday, 13 March 2013
Saturday, 9 March 2013
Anxious Thoughts and Broken Records
By
Barry McDonagh
Have you ever noticed that anxious thoughts are like a broken record? I know with Ipods etc. it’s a bit outdated to be using a record analogy here but it works well to illustrate a key point about anxious thoughts. Remember when a record got scratched it made a very unpleasant sound and caused the needle to get stuck on the same groove. The same one line would play over and over again ad nauseam until you picked up the needle and moved it past the scratch. Anxious thoughts are bit like this. You might be happily going about your day and then something triggers an anxious thought. The worry the thought creates sends an unpleasant shock wave through your nervous system. (The scratch on the record). Then once you start reacting to the anxious thought it is hard to stop thinking about it over and over again. (The needle stuck in a groove) The repetitive anxious thought can last minutes, hours , days depending on how upset you become by the thought.
I want to share with you a quick technique to jump out of this anxious groove. This technique is you learning how to pick up the record needle and move it past the scratch. Here it is: 1, Observe 2, Trust 3, Move
Observe the anxious thought and label it. Say “Oh there is fear X again, imagine that” Try your very best to not get sucked into reacting emotionally to the thought.
Then Trust that what you are worrying about will in all probability never come about. Almost all the anxious thoughts we have are a complete waste of our energy. Trust that things will work out fine. Joseph Cossman said “If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.” If you are religious/spiritual then hand your anxious thought over to a higher power. Trust that there is nothing to fear and you will be looked after. Trust and let it go. “Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He’s going to be up all night anyway. ” ~Mary C. Crowley
Lastly, Move your attention elsewhere. Focus on something positive that takes your mind out of the anxious groove. Replace the anxious thought with a positive thought. You are not trying to suppress the anxious thought, you are simply moving your attention elsewhere. To continue the record analogy, you pick the record needle up (your attention) and move it out of the groove it was caught in. If you are engaged in an activity then move your attention fully there. Be 100% present in the moment. If you are walking focus on the surroundings, if you are driving observe all the sights and sounds. If you are with someone focus all your attention on them. By moving your attention into the present moment there is no room for anxious thoughts to dominate your mind. Play around with both moving your attention to positive thoughts or into the present moment. Different people find one or the other is easier to accomplish. The key thing is to move your mind out of the anxious groove and put you back in your natural flow.
So to sum up remember O.T.M. Observe, Trust, Move It takes a bit of practice but as long as you remember the above 3 steps you will be able to dramatically eliminate anxious thoughts from your day.
To learn more about how to end panic attacks and general anxiety fast then Click Here
Barry McDonagh PanicAway.com
All material provided is for informational or educational purposes only. No content is intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Consult your physician regarding the applicability of any opinions or recommendations with respect to your symptoms or medical condition
Have you ever noticed that anxious thoughts are like a broken record? I know with Ipods etc. it’s a bit outdated to be using a record analogy here but it works well to illustrate a key point about anxious thoughts. Remember when a record got scratched it made a very unpleasant sound and caused the needle to get stuck on the same groove. The same one line would play over and over again ad nauseam until you picked up the needle and moved it past the scratch. Anxious thoughts are bit like this. You might be happily going about your day and then something triggers an anxious thought. The worry the thought creates sends an unpleasant shock wave through your nervous system. (The scratch on the record). Then once you start reacting to the anxious thought it is hard to stop thinking about it over and over again. (The needle stuck in a groove) The repetitive anxious thought can last minutes, hours , days depending on how upset you become by the thought.
I want to share with you a quick technique to jump out of this anxious groove. This technique is you learning how to pick up the record needle and move it past the scratch. Here it is: 1, Observe 2, Trust 3, Move
Observe the anxious thought and label it. Say “Oh there is fear X again, imagine that” Try your very best to not get sucked into reacting emotionally to the thought.
Then Trust that what you are worrying about will in all probability never come about. Almost all the anxious thoughts we have are a complete waste of our energy. Trust that things will work out fine. Joseph Cossman said “If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.” If you are religious/spiritual then hand your anxious thought over to a higher power. Trust that there is nothing to fear and you will be looked after. Trust and let it go. “Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He’s going to be up all night anyway. ” ~Mary C. Crowley
Lastly, Move your attention elsewhere. Focus on something positive that takes your mind out of the anxious groove. Replace the anxious thought with a positive thought. You are not trying to suppress the anxious thought, you are simply moving your attention elsewhere. To continue the record analogy, you pick the record needle up (your attention) and move it out of the groove it was caught in. If you are engaged in an activity then move your attention fully there. Be 100% present in the moment. If you are walking focus on the surroundings, if you are driving observe all the sights and sounds. If you are with someone focus all your attention on them. By moving your attention into the present moment there is no room for anxious thoughts to dominate your mind. Play around with both moving your attention to positive thoughts or into the present moment. Different people find one or the other is easier to accomplish. The key thing is to move your mind out of the anxious groove and put you back in your natural flow.
So to sum up remember O.T.M. Observe, Trust, Move It takes a bit of practice but as long as you remember the above 3 steps you will be able to dramatically eliminate anxious thoughts from your day.
To learn more about how to end panic attacks and general anxiety fast then Click Here
Barry McDonagh PanicAway.com
All material provided is for informational or educational purposes only. No content is intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Consult your physician regarding the applicability of any opinions or recommendations with respect to your symptoms or medical condition
Wednesday, 6 March 2013
Soak in a spiritual autobiography to gain in strength
Author: serena
If you look carefully, you will notice a pattern in every spiritual autobiography: the writer is always a much stronger and better person at the end of their ordeal. A tough time moulds a person in many ways, and the spiritual awakening is one of the changes it brings. At times, it seems your life is spiralling out of control. Then it seems like there is no end in sight, and you can't go back to where you started. While the prospect surely looks totally bleak at such a juncture, bring to mind the lines of a popular song: "every endless night/ has a dawning day/ every darkest sky/ has a shining ray." The phase is bound to end somewhere. And, by the time you reach the end of the tunnel, you are a stronger person capable of penning down your own spiritual memoir.
Spiritual writing helps a lot in times of stress and trouble, and getting hold of an inspiring spiritual autobiography can indeed help you on the path to awakening and strengthening. There are a number of great people who have worked on this earth, whose help you can take for the purpose of making you life a better one. Of course, you also need to keep in mind that there is no reason at all why you should have to read a spiritual memoir of someone everyone knows and reveres; you can read up on the memoirs of a lot of our contemporary souls who have gone through the hardships and risen from the ashes of them.
There are a few writers in the present day that everyone knows and loves. Each one of them has written their own spiritual memoir to help you through the path of your life. Do understand, on the other hand, that just reading up on the memoirs of these people is not likely to help you through the tough times in your life. These can certainly give you the necessary inspiration, but at the end of the day it is you who has to pick yourself up and carry on with renewed enthusiasm and grit. You can read up on the spiritual autobiography of each and every one of the following: St. Augustine, Louise L. Hay, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Dr. Deepak Chopra, Marianne Williamson, Eckhart Tolle, Elaine Pagels, Gary Zukav, Neale Donald Walsch, Dr. Wayne W. Dyer and Shakti Gawain.
Reading a spiritual autobiography can be a great way to recognize and boost the dormant spirituality in you. Do keep in mind, however, that you need to maintain the thin red line between spirituality and religion; too many humans blur the distinction to regrettable ends, and only a few can merge them seamlessly. Your spiritual memoir hardly has anything of value if it doesn't recount your own experiences of standing beside and picking yourself up every time you stumbled. Also, don't let it ever slip you that ultimately it is you who is going to see you through the toughest of times. The popular rocker got it right when he said "the light at the end of the tunnel might be you.
Article Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/motivational-articles/soak-in-a-spiritual-autobiography-to-gain-in-strength-6466413.html
About the Author
If times are tough and you need to turn to your inner self for comfort, take strength and inspiration from any spiritual memoir in our website. With us, you can share your spiritual experiences via a personal spiritual autobiography, and you can follow the light from the experiences of other people.
If you look carefully, you will notice a pattern in every spiritual autobiography: the writer is always a much stronger and better person at the end of their ordeal. A tough time moulds a person in many ways, and the spiritual awakening is one of the changes it brings. At times, it seems your life is spiralling out of control. Then it seems like there is no end in sight, and you can't go back to where you started. While the prospect surely looks totally bleak at such a juncture, bring to mind the lines of a popular song: "every endless night/ has a dawning day/ every darkest sky/ has a shining ray." The phase is bound to end somewhere. And, by the time you reach the end of the tunnel, you are a stronger person capable of penning down your own spiritual memoir.
Spiritual writing helps a lot in times of stress and trouble, and getting hold of an inspiring spiritual autobiography can indeed help you on the path to awakening and strengthening. There are a number of great people who have worked on this earth, whose help you can take for the purpose of making you life a better one. Of course, you also need to keep in mind that there is no reason at all why you should have to read a spiritual memoir of someone everyone knows and reveres; you can read up on the memoirs of a lot of our contemporary souls who have gone through the hardships and risen from the ashes of them.
There are a few writers in the present day that everyone knows and loves. Each one of them has written their own spiritual memoir to help you through the path of your life. Do understand, on the other hand, that just reading up on the memoirs of these people is not likely to help you through the tough times in your life. These can certainly give you the necessary inspiration, but at the end of the day it is you who has to pick yourself up and carry on with renewed enthusiasm and grit. You can read up on the spiritual autobiography of each and every one of the following: St. Augustine, Louise L. Hay, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Dr. Deepak Chopra, Marianne Williamson, Eckhart Tolle, Elaine Pagels, Gary Zukav, Neale Donald Walsch, Dr. Wayne W. Dyer and Shakti Gawain.
Reading a spiritual autobiography can be a great way to recognize and boost the dormant spirituality in you. Do keep in mind, however, that you need to maintain the thin red line between spirituality and religion; too many humans blur the distinction to regrettable ends, and only a few can merge them seamlessly. Your spiritual memoir hardly has anything of value if it doesn't recount your own experiences of standing beside and picking yourself up every time you stumbled. Also, don't let it ever slip you that ultimately it is you who is going to see you through the toughest of times. The popular rocker got it right when he said "the light at the end of the tunnel might be you.
Article Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/motivational-articles/soak-in-a-spiritual-autobiography-to-gain-in-strength-6466413.html
About the Author
If times are tough and you need to turn to your inner self for comfort, take strength and inspiration from any spiritual memoir in our website. With us, you can share your spiritual experiences via a personal spiritual autobiography, and you can follow the light from the experiences of other people.
Saturday, 2 March 2013
The Gift of Giving
By James Kyle
A short post today as in fact quite a lot of what I would want to say was stated a couple of weeks ago in this post: Do You Realize That You're Living Someone Else's Dream?
A recent conversation with a friend reminded me that an obstacle to people being willing to give money to charity is a concern that the money will not go to the needy but to directors and advertising budgets instead. So I would simply like to draw your attention to this site: charitynavigator.org
I found for myself this charity to support: eastmeetswest.org ... who knows, perhaps browsing the Charity Navigator site might just be some of the most rewarding time you find yourself spending on the Internet.
A short post today as in fact quite a lot of what I would want to say was stated a couple of weeks ago in this post: Do You Realize That You're Living Someone Else's Dream?
A recent conversation with a friend reminded me that an obstacle to people being willing to give money to charity is a concern that the money will not go to the needy but to directors and advertising budgets instead. So I would simply like to draw your attention to this site: charitynavigator.org
I found for myself this charity to support: eastmeetswest.org ... who knows, perhaps browsing the Charity Navigator site might just be some of the most rewarding time you find yourself spending on the Internet.
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