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samyParticipantHi anita
I am doing well. How are you?
Girija
samyParticipantHi anita
I will get treated for this. I do want to live feeling more confident and in control.
Girija
samyParticipantHi anita
Thank you so much for this post. I always said I have anxiety, but almost like it is a personality trait and not a disorder that can be treated. I never looked at my thoughts and feelings as symptoms. I just decided that’s who I am. You and I have spoken about professional help before but the clarity I have now is amazing.
I am scared of speaking about myself to a professional but I will do it. I wish I didn’t have to. When I know it is treatable, I should get to that quickly. Thanks a lot!
Girija
samyParticipantHi Roberta
That’s a wonderful quote. We can choose what we do after shit happens. I think for far too long I’ve been a follower. Never made any decisions or choices for myself. That I can solve. The other, like anita, pointed out is I may be suffering from an actual disorder that leads to me going into auto pilot. I don’t ever want to be angry at people for how they treat me. I just want to leave and move on.
Girija
samyParticipantHi anita
Forced to stay by my own conscious sounds right
Girija
samyParticipantHi Roberta
Thank you for the detailed answer. I will checkout the youtube channels. I have already seen some videos of Ajhan Brahamn, he is funny.
Thank you for listing so many resources. I will make a list and go over them.
I struggle with believing in rebirth. To me it feels unfair to have to bear the consequences of what you don’t even remember doing, in a previous life. A lot of women in my family use it as a way to say the abuse they face now is because of what they did in a past life. So I don’t like it. I feel like it was taught to keep people submissive. And I find it weird that mostly women think like this. Men weren’t taught this. So I feel stuck. If I believed in rebirth, maybe I could look forward to my next life, the current one I really hate. But at the same time, it feels like propaganda in my culture atleast.
Girija
samyParticipantHi anita
No, I did not feel powerful over the snake. It’s poisonous! It just felt like someone had to do it, so I did it.
I did mean constant. It may be consenting by not leaving everything and going away.
Girija
samyParticipantHi Roberta
Thank you for explaining dharma to me.
I would also like advice from you with an issue I face when I try to follow any spiritual practice or teachings. I find myself getting really down. I want to believe in a pay off for being good but most religions don’t guarantee that. Can you really enjoy life while also being spiritual? I have found myself getting really depressed when I tried in the past.
Girija
samyParticipantHi anita
My cousins have come home, so I couldn’t reply to you on Monday. I did do the courage pose you mentioned. I don’t think courage is what I am lacking. I killed a snake yesterday. My cousin brother and father were scared. I was too but I just went ahead and did it. If I decide I must do something, I’ll go ahead and do it, no matter what. Even at work, I have not held back on expressing issues or concerns. I am anxious, not because I am afraid, I am anxious when I feel helpless about what I am afraid of. And I have an underlying discontent with life that seems to be a consent. I am sick of drama.
Girija
samyParticipantHi anita
We’re working from home because of Covid. I don’t know if I mentioned that before. Our office will open again in May.
I will try this out. Today is Sunday, I will tell you how it goes on Monday.
Girija
samyParticipantHi anita
I am not sure if this is how it should be but here it is:
I wake up and still feel groggy. Brush my teeth and check my work messages. If there is a message I need to respond to, I keep rehearsing what the answer should be. If it is a low risk message and shoot an answer really quick. There is an impulse to reply. I turn my laptop on and constantly look for any messages I may get. I am bored. But at the same time, feeling tensed or irritated at the thought of having to attend a meeting that happens daily. If someone tells me there’s an issue, I am already scared it may be horrible. I am reminded of an upcoming deadline or milestone and get nervous at it failing and how I should deal with. I walk around the house, and ask my mom if she needs help with anything. I do what she needs but I feel physically unable to find energy to do anything. I push things for work to the next day, but dread the consequences. I eventually will get to it because the fear of being reprimanded pushes me to action. I am sick of constantly feeling scared and acting out of fear.
Girija
samyParticipantHi Roberta
What do you mean by meets the dharma?
Girija
samyParticipantHi anita
Just to clarify, you want me to visualize an entire day and write out my feelings and thoughts?
Girija
samyParticipantHi anita
I recall using mindfulness as a way to heal my inner self. Essentially being able to focus on the present so as to not get carried away by anxiety. This is what comes back to me, it maybe a culmination of everything I ever read or heard.
Girija
samyParticipantHi anita
I recall we did.
Girija
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