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"I dream of a world where I can lay my vulnerabilities out there, open for everyone, until they are my strengths. I am longing for this."
Harper Steele
Basic Info Anxiety
Basic Info Anxiety
This Site is NOT a Replacement for Therapy, Medication or Medical Treatment
This Site is NOT a Replacement for Therapy, Medication or Medical Treatment
Caution with Mindfulness and Quiet Mind with Trauma
Caution with Mindfulness and Quiet Mind with Trauma
Remember to go to the BEGIN HERE page for many additional resources and information that is helpful for living with, reducing frequency of and intensity of, and ability to manage, anxiety.
"Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers" Dr. Robert Sapolsky
"Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers" Dr. Robert Sapolsky
This video helps you understand more about your brain and nervous system and how we respond to stress. Helpful for understanding many things, including anxiety. Here is a link to the longer version of this talk. FULL VERSION Check out the other Sapolsky videos on YouTube. Also more links on the Begin Here and Other Resources page.
The other video below
CAUTION
Things to Remember about Anxiety and Activation of Trauma
Meditations that can be Helpful for Anxiety:
Connecting with AWE and Wonder
Awe is beneficial for everyone, especially when dealing with anything difficult. Do this often - even for a couple minutes when you are stressed/overwhelmed/hurting. This meditation guides you through remembering with all of your senses an experience of being in a place where you FELT AWE
Music: Village Love Story by Buddha’s Flute on YouTube
This meditation anchors you in your strong, immoveable center and allows you to rest in strength as you observe all thought, feeling and sensation that arises
Music: Bamboo Garden by Buddha’s Flute
Use this meditation to balance the mind, increase focus and attention, and most importantly to interrupt the signaling from the amygdala so that you can bring your system into CALM. This is my version of one from the NMI page on insight timer and also on this page.
Music: Powerful Meditation Music for Concentration and Focus by Meditation and Healing on YouTube
The Net of Indra for Connection
Weave Yourself INTO Life
This Open Heart meditation increases the felt sense of being woven into the very fabric of life
Music: Village Love Story by Buddha’s Lounge on YouTube
This meditation guides you through shifting your attention inward to: build connection with self and body; increase awareness of, and ability to listen to, information coming from your body which can help you begin to tune into what state your nervous system is in and to assess effectiveness of interventions
Music: Krishna’s Healing Power by Buddha’s Lounge on YouTube
This focus meditation uses imagery of the tree of life; drawing energy up from your roots and down from your limbs and leaves, allowing them to mingle, grow and connect you with the vitality of life.
Music: Golden Blossom by Buddha’s Lounge on YouTube
This Meditation anchors you into your stable, rooted self using the vagus nerve; balances the mind through bi-laterall focus and bi-lateral touch
Music: Vagus Nerve Stimulation by Narayanjot Records on YouTube
What is Safety and Why Does it Matter SO Much?
The system responds and can return to calm when you send it messages of safety. This meditation is helpful for that, or whenever you need a barrier to the world, a deep sense of safety, unconditional love and support, or when you are doing difficult work. Practicing often can help restore a sense of safety.
Music: Golden Blossom - Tranquil Flute by Buddha’s Lounge on YouTube
This meditation helps you to gently stretch into acceptance of things that may be difficult
Music: Dive into Tranquility - Buddha’s Flute on YouTube
This meditation guides you through increasing love and compassion for yourself. Observe yourself and how the experiences of life have impacted you. Through the lens of love, connect with both giving and receiving whatever is needed, fostering and growing your compassion and understanding for yourself.
Music: Healing Mother by Buddha’s Lounge on YouTube
OH: Increasing Compassion for Self & Others
This meditation is the basis and foundation of Open Heart meditations. It increases love and compassion for self and others.
Music: Peaceful Garden by Buddha’s Lounge on YouTube
Meditation for Self Forgiveness
This meditation gently guides you through sitting with your deep regrets and assists you in allowing and receiving the balm of self forgiveness
Music: Dive into Tranquility by Buddha’s Flute on YouTube
Open the Heart by Being the Tree AND the Forest
This meditation uses imagery of being both the single rooted tree AND the entire forest to Open the Heart and increase connection
Music: Morning Flute Music - New Day by Buddha’s Flute on YouTube
** Caution: This Meditation is not suitable for people living with, or experiencing, suicidal ideation **
Using imagery of Ouroboros, this meditation supports you through times of great change, growth and/or transformation. It assists you through your process of, and your acceptance of, letting go and shedding the past - moving you forward into this new life phase.
Music: Peaceful Garden by Buddha’s Lounge on YouTube
This meditation supports you in expanding yourself as you hold both your joys and your sorrows.
Music: Buddha’s Flute - Healing Mother by Buddha’s Lounge
This meditation can be helpful when you feel pulled in opposite directions or the splitting experience arising from what seems to be conflicting thoughts, feelings, or sensations. By helping you stretch and expand the meditation this supports you so that you don’t have to pick either/or, and rather can hold BOTH things.
Music: Krishna’s Harmonious Flute by Buddha’s Lounge
This meditation aids you in accepting and facing the unknown through connecting with your core immovable self and anchoring into your strength.
Music: Calm Mountains by Fantasia Echoes
This meditation connects you with being like a tree and then slowly to the feeling of being the entire, vast and expansive forest
Music: Relaxing Flute Falling Leaves by Buddha’s Lounge on YouTube
This meditation uses space imagery to quiet the mind for sleep. Using both the darkness between all things in space and its vast neverending expansiveness.
Music: 8 Hour Hans Zimmer Time Cover by Cozy Sleep Sounds on YouTube
Using Movement Meditations for ANXIETY
Various Routes to the Quieter Mind
Various Routes to the Quieter Mind
Remember to go to the Begin Here page for more meditations, tools and resources which help Anxiety. Especially for the Cave of Safety Meditation information. Working with the Cave of Safety is a crucial tool for people living with Anxiety, and one that has helped me MOST.
My Favorite Meditations from the NMI for ANXIETY
The first three meditations are from the NeuroMeditation Insitute's page on Insight Timer. If you have not already done so do the following:
download the Insight Timer App
Search for the NeuroMeditation Institute in the app or click this link
Select the Follow Button
Open the links below for each meditation and bookmark them in the app for quicker/easier access in the future
Use this daily to reduce frequency and intensity of activation.
Use this daily to reduce frequency and intensity of activation.
Use this regularly to reduce frequency of activation and to increase calm.
Also use this before bed to help with sleep disruption or diffuculty falling to sleep.
When you are activated and need to interrupt the amygdala before shifting to calming.
Also use this before going into a stressful situation or when surprised or caught off guard by an activation.
Go to the Other Tools and Resources for more tools, information and book recommendations for Anxiety.
The Vagus Nerve and Polyvagal Theory
What are the Vagus Nerve and Polyvagal Theory and Why they Matter to YOU?
Go to the Vagus Nerve and Polyvagal Theory Page for Images, Links and More Information
Working with Safety
Working to Know Thyself
Working with Connection
Working with Nature
Go to the pages below for more information and meditations for each:
Importance of Therapy
Importance of Therapy
Therapy helps us understand ourselves better so that we can feel more empowered and able to manage the experiences of our lives. They help us to keep it on the rails as we navigate who we are, how our life experiences have impacted us and hopefully new tools for living in alignment with our goals and our choices for living.
Go to the Begin Here page for more info on why working with a therapist is helpful and important, as well as links for finding a therapist!
This website has SO many AMAZING resources, which are broken down in clear and usable ways, to help you that is safe and inclusive.
This link takes you to the crisis section of a page, which has very important info, but also has more info if you scroll up. There you will find links to finding whatever resource you need.
Time in Nature Helps Reduce Anxiety and Negative Impacts of Anxiety
Why Nature is Important for Mind/Body Well-Being
Why Nature is Important for Mind/Body Well-Being
Being Safe While Meditating in Nature
Being Safe While Meditating in Nature
Various Ways to Access Nature: Especially When You Can't Get There
Various Ways to Access Nature: Especially When You Can't Get There
Scroll up for other meditations using nature imagery such as Being the Tree and the Forest and Connecting with Awe and Wonder
When Your Anxiety Stems From Our Societies LACK of Understanding Gender
The Facts About Gender
Brain Gender
Transgender NeuroBiology
The Neurobiology of Trans-Sexuality
Why Understanding Your Perception Matters
Redefining and ReCLAIMING Your Perception
Redefining and ReCLAIMING Your Perception
What Temperament are YOU?
What Temperament are YOU?
Knowing what temperament you are at a base level can help you as you come to KNOW YOURSELF more fully.
We come into the world having a base temperament. This is our Nature. Who we are is comprised of this and our NURTURING or how we were nurtured. Understanding your nature can offer you amazing insight into yourself. Exploring the impacts of how you were nurtured or where you weren't allows you to see the story that is YOU. Our Nature can't be radically changed. However when we come to understand ourselves better we can gain the awareness to make choices which are in alignment with our nature so that our lives can feel more peaceful and fulfilling. It is part of learning to truly love, accept and respect yourself and the WONDER which you ARE! No one is the same as us... we are connected and can have shared experiences, but the internal world that is us is something which is as unique as our fingerprint.
Why Understanding your Personality Type is Helpful
Why Understanding your Personality Type is Helpful
Click Above for the link to the FREE survey!
Take time to answer the questions slowly and honestly for accuracy. They offer a breakdown of a buttload of very interesting and helpful information that can help you gain insight into yourself.
Go to the Other Tools and Resources page for more information, tools, and book recommendations.
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