In the last few months, many people around have been feeling an increase in their anxiety, and may not even know the cause. If you're nervous, your mind can run away trying to find justifications, and that can lead to a downward spiral - nerves leading to fear, combining into anxiety, imagining awkward situations, and so on.
You don't always need to know the causes to feel anxiety, and as it turns out, many times you don't need to know the causes to solve it either. In this episode, Kurt goes through some perspectives and techniques to help you address, overcome and start to transmute your anxiety and other emotional problems into something beneficial.
Topics discussed include:
- Pranayama or breathing exercises
- The importance of being open-minded
- Dropping anxiety like a weight
- Coping mechanisms and thriving strategies
- Tech detox
- Meditation - mindfulness, seated, walking
- The way you think
- The power of language over your state of mind
- Black and white thinking
- How to stick with a habit
- How resistance to anxiety causes you to become more anxious; and
- Having a little faith
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"You don't always need to know the causes to feel anxiety, and as it turns out, many times you don't need to know the causes to solve it either."
I would agree with that statement. Interestingly, I think some of the methods used to overcome psychedelic fear may be helpful with general anxiety too. Simple things like a change in set and setting can have a great effect on changing a bad mood despite its cause.
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So true. I like when Michael Polan says stuff like "If you see a door walk through it; if you see a staircase go up it." Learning to take things easy and go with the flow a bit on a psychedelic journey definitely helps us in normal life.
Perhaps one of the reasons these journeys are so helpful is that they give us an intense slice of life in just a few hours, giving us a wild rollercoaster ride that might take months or years of regular life to experience.
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Great article! So many people around us experience physical and mental suffering. We want to help them, but don’t know how to do it. I shall feel happy if reasoning and conclusions of this post inspires at least a few to renew our consciousness and life, ignite a new, intense, healing life energy in us. Thanks.
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I believe and tried a few teachings of Buddha. Undoubtedly, science, technology, and the economy have made great strides in improving the material well-being of people. But has modern man really become happy, and peaceful from inside?
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Uh oh...hope you are still around
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