In meditation, I often catch myself planning. What’s next? What’s for breakfast? What work project to focus on today? Softening, I find anxiety. An unsettled uncertainty. Tightness in my top chest, as if I don’t trust the next inhalation. What does anxiety feel like in your body?
Thank you Lizzie 🙏🏻❤️ and I absolutely agree about the "next thing", all the "must get done" things that spend far too much time popping up throughout my days. Remembering to be compassionate to myself is helpful, that I am not alone in this is also helpful. You and your mom are a Godsend to me. Happy New Year. May we all pause and be, more.
It feels the same way. A tightness in my body, a not trusting of the present moment an unease within. I soften as well, lean into the unease and let it know that I am here for me no matter what. I am enough just the way I am.
Anxiety can really feel like a tightning in the heart region, that almost feel like a heart attack. My whole body contracts. The funny thing, it happens often out of the blue. I have to remind myself (after a few visit to the emergency and doctor) that the body keeps the score and has a memory of his own....Soften, soften, a word to remember this year. xx
Contemplation: What if this is the last in breath? The audio is here https://www.spiritrock.org/nikki-mirghafori
Thank you Lizzie 🙏🏻❤️ and I absolutely agree about the "next thing", all the "must get done" things that spend far too much time popping up throughout my days. Remembering to be compassionate to myself is helpful, that I am not alone in this is also helpful. You and your mom are a Godsend to me. Happy New Year. May we all pause and be, more.
Beautiful
Anxiety normally feels like tightness in my chest too, a sense of being not quite right
It can also feel like a vague sense of pushing forward and a discomfort with the here & now.
Often I’m not aware I’m in an anxious state, but once I am, and can take a pause, it can definitely help shift things.
Anxiety feels like indecisiveness in my body to decide what to do...short breaths, unsettled. So I need to settle into the moment and breathe.
It feels the same way. A tightness in my body, a not trusting of the present moment an unease within. I soften as well, lean into the unease and let it know that I am here for me no matter what. I am enough just the way I am.
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Anxiety can really feel like a tightning in the heart region, that almost feel like a heart attack. My whole body contracts. The funny thing, it happens often out of the blue. I have to remind myself (after a few visit to the emergency and doctor) that the body keeps the score and has a memory of his own....Soften, soften, a word to remember this year. xx
Yes to the simplicity of this message 😍 trusting the next breath *exhale*