jossclimb
Joined 4 years ago
Joined 4 years ago
It did a total number on my anxiety levels and pulled me out of the constant cortisol fuelled fight or flight mode I found myself as I slowly crashed and burned into the ground
I wish someone had taught me as a child, it would have made a marked difference on my life, I am sure of it.
That was exactly the approach I was doing.
> If you tried to follow all your anxious thoughts and delve into their "meaning"
That is the opposite of meditation, I've never heard of that being described anywhere as meditation, that sounds like daily rumination / churn.
What fixed me was finally reading Breath by James Nestor and how you breath has a direct impact on the parasympathetic / sympathetic nervous system. I learned to take long slow breaths into the diaphragm and too nose breath all of the time. Basically my vagus nerve was fried from burn out and being in the fight flight mode of the parasympathetic system, as opposed to the 'rest and digest' chilled nature of sympathetic nervous system.
My own view now, is that mediation should not be attempted (at least by anyone with mental issues) until the parasympathetic / sympathetic system is balanced and stress is significantly reduced. This should start with the breath.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/vbaedd/meditation-is-a-power...
What I like most is, its like a runtime `nono run ... agent` and there is not managing vms, containers ,mounts.