Meditation

Thanks Dahila, I'll remember this when I meditate again. I know what you are saying though and expecting unrealistic results or expecting a 'quick fix' defeats the whole purpose and not at all what it about.

Thanks Ponder for you detailed guide for meditation. I am simply blown away by your posting for me and I have printed it to read another time when I can really focus on that. Sadly, I've been dissociating lately (I must stay offline when this happens) and find it hard to do anything but sleep. I did read the entire tutorial and 2 things jumped out at me right away that really makes sense. "Meditation can be as short as one minute" and "Meditation is more about being aware rather than in some state of trance". I needed to hear those 2 things, because I was getting hung up on both. So even if I feel it was a benefit for only few minutes, I'll be happy.

Again, thanks for taking the time to go into so much detail for me, and I'll try to not get as frustrated with it now.

http://anxietyforum.net/forum/showth...ded+meditation
Try this:))
If you have problems to do it yourself, let someone to teach you, then you start without the instruction.

Nice thread, I also have written an article with the collaboration of Dr. Jeffery Martin about meditative experience.
It deals with three easy steps that I use nowadays to simply have every day my best day.

You can find the source at this link: Meditative Hacks That Reduces Anxiety.

Please let me know if one of you is actually willing to try one of these simple and brief meditative tips so we can share our experiences.
Have a grat day :)

Mindglobe thanks but I am done the simple steps like 15 years ago, without the meditation I would be dead long time ago. I bumped it for you :))

A great thread, I think it was in this thread that I first learned about Headspace. I'm now in my third month of that and it really helped me get the meditation going. I wasn't doing that well with it on my own, it's nice to have some kind of structure and to know that there's a practice waiting for me every day.