164: How To Ease Into A Formal Meditation Practice For Anxiety
The Anxiety Coaches Podcast
Gina Ryan
4.6 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2016
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode we break down step by step the "How To" for formal sitting meditation practice when you have anxiety. From how long to where and what to do with difficult thoughts and feelings coach Gina walks us through a plan to keep us inspired to sit daily.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Anxiety Coaches |
| 0:09.3 | Coaches podcast, a relaxing and informative show where we explore anxiety, panic and PTSD sharing how you can overcome them for life. |
| 0:22.0 | Oh, Loh how welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast. |
| 0:27.0 | Today I am going to answer a question that I get quite often, both in email and I see it on the Facebook group. |
| 0:39.1 | And I actually get this from clients, whether I am seeing straight up anxiety clients or eating disorder or |
| 0:47.8 | substance abuse clients, they are asking this question. |
| 0:53.0 | If I have anxiety, how can I meditate? |
| 0:56.0 | It seems so difficult. |
| 0:58.0 | So that's what we're going to talk about today, |
| 1:01.0 | and I'm going to try to lay it out in a form that you can go back to over and |
| 1:08.0 | over when you have questions. So let's get to that. Let's get to our subject matter for today. |
| 1:16.0 | If I have anxiety, how can I meditate? |
| 1:19.0 | So I want to take this question by question |
| 1:22.0 | as people usually begin to accept and break this down and |
| 1:27.3 | more questions come up. |
| 1:29.3 | So to actually start a meditation practice and I'm talking here today about the formal practice |
| 1:36.2 | about actually setting time aside each day to spend giving your mind body the connection and the break from our daily life constant |
| 1:50.8 | thinking, worry, so forth and so on. The actual taking time out to try to let things be. |
| 1:59.0 | Isn't that an interesting term? Trying to let things be. |
| 2:02.0 | But in the beginning, that's what it feels like you are |
| 2:04.4 | doing and the beauty of establishing a practice of having a time where you are actually building a nest so to speak a little |
| 2:18.9 | meditation nest is that you want to go there eventually. You're drawn to go there. |
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