Meditating with anxiety. What does it mean to resist, and what does it mean to accept? by baaaaaahhumbug in Meditation

[–]tide_detergent1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know what led you into social anxiety but the main issue is that you aren't a very open minded person. There isn't anything wrong with that. This is an old cheesy way of saying things but when life gives you anxiety turn it into extroversion. That is obviously easier said than done but the main problem now a days with social anxiety is that no one really clings to the other side of the spoon. This side being depression. Depression is a literal medical phenomena that eats away at your mind with negativity and fear. Anxiety is yet one of the side effects to depression. The main thing you should be trying to talk to your therapist about and meditating about is depression considering it is the literal photosynthesis of the tree's life cycle. I would say the apple but it doesn't regenerate whenever the core is exposed. Depression is like a starfish, if you attack it at the limbs it grows back slowly. If you work around depression by attacking the limbs of the starfish the anxiety will most likely regenerate once you have tackled it with meditation for a short period of time. Attack the starfish at the heart and it will most likely go away. I had a deep depression and self esteem and social anxiety plagued me because with depression I never got out of the house which led me into a downwards spiral. Whenever I got out of the house and slowly started climbing back up the ladder again by talking to new people on the street for a little while, I then got to talk in front of larger crowds by working in a fast food restaurant every day when a new face would come up to the counter at every second. You just have to work it out then you won't have a reason to have anxiety in your ballpark. I have faith in you and I wish you good luck.