Dear greenshade:

Congratulations for successfully managing to meditate through yesterday’s panic attacks.

Today, you wrote, your mind is quiet but you have this “feeling of heart crushing anxiety’- where do you feel it? Where in the body, that is, do you feel it (or felt it today)? How does it feel?

This is what my therapist taught me: attend to how it feels in the body, describe, observe how it changes (and it does change)- learn that way to be with the feeling.

anita