Please seek professional advice if you haven't already. Advice from strangers on the internet can sound comforting but it won't do much for serious problems that are also very personal.
I am seeking it, and as probably everywhere it takes weeks or months to get some.
Also, it's not that personal, in the sense that symptoms are similar, and ways to address them are also similar.
I'm not looking for comforting tales, but success stories could lift my spirit, which would be helpful?
I just do it myself. I heard from several teachers that "process of entering meditation" is what the beginning of the practice is about.
I also read that meditating in a quiet room with no distractions is sort of like the "5-pound weights" of meditation, where you begin to learn how to practice... But the real payoff is knowing how to meditate when you are in a stressful situation, when the techniques can really help. I read this in Wherever You Go...
Because I don't get many opportunities to go to hour-long guided meditations or to take a 14-day silent meditation retreat, etc., I decided that I would combine these two ideas, and jump straight to the "10-pounders".
I decided that whenever I was a) waiting for something b) annoyed by something, or c) at an overly long work meeting, I would seize on this wonderful opportunity to meditate and just start meditating, without changing anything about myself externally, on my breath.
Breathing, external sounds, and tactile sensation, are three things I've heard teachers suggest meditating on, one or two at a time. Breathing works well for me, but not for everyone.
When I am "meditating on [something]", it means I'm paying attention to it the way I pay attention to the tip of the pencil when I'm drawing, or the paintbrush when I paint, or the cursor area when I'm typing on screen. With breathing, I sometimes think about how each breath out is connected to the next breath in, all the way to the beginning... Sometimes I also think about how the breath connects the conscious with the automatic.
I've been doing this for several years now, and I've found it to be one of the most helpful things to help in almost any situation.
With regards to mental state, it also helps to think about that "this is temporary"
I knew someone who benefited from taking extra vitamins and resolving mold issues in their home. It didn't cure it, but it made it vastly more manageable.
If you learn to engineer your interior the way you want it to be, i.e. your thoughts and emotions OCD will not be that big of an issue to handle. I'd recommend taking the Inner Engineering program online. It has done wonders for me and millions across the world. Visit: innerengineering.com
I'm not a doctor (obviously) but, as I understand, the solution to OCD is not to give in to your compulsions. Suffer through your discomfort and anxiety without performing any actions to control your discomfort and anxiety. Treat your compulsions as your enemy rather than your unpleasant internal states.
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[ 3.7 ms ] story [ 26.8 ms ] threadI sit down, if possible in the circumstances, and begin paying attention to my breath.
I pay attention to it the same way I would pay attention to the tip of the paintbrush as I am painting.
I do this for several seconds or minutes at a time, until I'm able to achieve a calm state.
Sometimes I do it counting the breaths, which may work well with your attention specifics.
Remember that you are experiencing evolved behaviors and states which are being triggered in unproductive ways.
You can change these triggers by first dissipating their effects. This is what breath meditation did for me, over the course of several years.
I also read that meditating in a quiet room with no distractions is sort of like the "5-pound weights" of meditation, where you begin to learn how to practice... But the real payoff is knowing how to meditate when you are in a stressful situation, when the techniques can really help. I read this in Wherever You Go...
Because I don't get many opportunities to go to hour-long guided meditations or to take a 14-day silent meditation retreat, etc., I decided that I would combine these two ideas, and jump straight to the "10-pounders".
I decided that whenever I was a) waiting for something b) annoyed by something, or c) at an overly long work meeting, I would seize on this wonderful opportunity to meditate and just start meditating, without changing anything about myself externally, on my breath.
Breathing, external sounds, and tactile sensation, are three things I've heard teachers suggest meditating on, one or two at a time. Breathing works well for me, but not for everyone.
When I am "meditating on [something]", it means I'm paying attention to it the way I pay attention to the tip of the pencil when I'm drawing, or the paintbrush when I paint, or the cursor area when I'm typing on screen. With breathing, I sometimes think about how each breath out is connected to the next breath in, all the way to the beginning... Sometimes I also think about how the breath connects the conscious with the automatic.
I've been doing this for several years now, and I've found it to be one of the most helpful things to help in almost any situation.
With regards to mental state, it also helps to think about that "this is temporary"