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This. Being a very anxious person in nature, I will add there is something that positively helps anxiety in repetition of something known. I can't put my fing
by gotbeans 5y ago
This.
Being a very anxious person in nature, I will add there is something that positively helps anxiety in repetition of something known.
I can't put my finger on it but, I always feel aliviated when a new episode starts after the previous one. It's one of the things that has helped me most during hard times, and gave me back being able to fall sleep at night.
- lanstin 5y agoThis human truth is at the heart of many religious practices. Time as we experience it has aspects of repetition and aspects of novelty. Doing something again and again makes it powerful for us. For the general issue of worries keep me up at night, I have found that after a few years of meditation, this has almost stopped being issue for me. Maybe if there is some big issue I will wake up one morning early and not be able to stop the thoughts from waking me, so then I bring my problem solving techniques to it and resume sleeping well. Granted some types of stress, financial, child well being, relationship, are more destabilizing and force a higher level of practice than others (like a recent car accident where no one was hurt but my pride and my car and maybe my trust of highway 87). But three slow deep breaths, with all my attention I can summon, note the beginning of the pause and plan reflex, and then nicely numbered breaths, connected to many hours of sitting meditation and those basically chill experiences, and I can let sleepiness do its thing without fuss.
- koheripbal 5y agoNow I understand why my grandmother would pray, saying the Hail Mary prayer again and again and again, when she was going through emotional times.