174 SelfWork: Coping with Paralyzing Anxiety thru Meditation
The SelfWork Podcast
Margaret Robinson Rutherford PhD
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2020
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
I’ve never experienced what I did this past week but it's normal considering the current pandemic. The podcast topic was completely elusive to me. There was too much else on my mind. After really struggling to know what to talk about, I wondered if many of you were having a similar struggle. How exactly are we all supposed to focus on the tasks or experiences of the day – and not allow the anxiety from the novel coronavirus to overwhelm us?.So that became the topic - coping with anxiety.
One answer is through beginning to meditate. It doesn't take long and even though you may feel as if you're failing, the practice itself gently begins to help you focus and find more calm. Included below is are links to the best meditation apps of 2020, a graph about the benefits of meditation, and Deepak Chopra's offering of a free mediation workshop.
The listener email was a tough one for me. But I wanted to share it with you. I’d never want anyone to feel the way this listener did – of course I can’t control that, but her response was genuine.
Important Graphic and Links: Huff Post Article on Meditation and site of below graphic
Link to Deepak Chopra's free meditation course
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is self-work and I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford. |
| 0:13.0 | At self-work we'll discuss psychological and emotional issues common in today's world |
| 0:19.0 | and what to do about them. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm Dr. Margaret and self-work is a podcast dedicated to you taking just a few minutes today for your own self-work. |
| 0:29.0 | Hello and welcome to self-work. I'm Dr. Margaret Rutherford, I'm a clinical psychologist out of Fayetteville, Arkansas, and I'm so glad you've joined me today. |
| 0:38.0 | Self-work is all about trying to reach people about the power of therapy or just hearing what a therapist might have to say. |
| 0:45.8 | I've always wanted to reach out to those of you who already are very comfortable in the |
| 0:49.7 | emotional or psychological world. |
| 0:52.0 | To those of you who have just initially been |
| 0:53.6 | diagnosed with depression or anxiety and want some answers. But also to a third group, |
| 0:59.6 | those of you who think you would never darken the door of a therapist but are just |
| 1:03.9 | interested enough to listen in. So welcome to all of you. Today we're going to talk |
| 1:09.8 | about several aspects of anxiety and how current fears may be shifting you in the ones |
| 1:14.5 | you love into a more anxious place. I myself who at times can convince myself that I'm |
| 1:20.4 | not overly anxious, suddenly realized that I may not overtly be showing it, |
| 1:25.3 | but last week I had a cold sore and last night I had a strange frightening dream. |
| 1:29.7 | So yeah, I'm anxious along with everyone else. So I really hadn't in the last three years |
| 1:35.4 | since doing this podcast I hadn't experienced what I did this past week. It seems that a |
| 1:40.5 | podcast topic was completely elusive to me. |
| 1:43.6 | There was too much else on my mind. |
| 1:46.5 | So after a huge struggle to know what to talk about, I wondered if many of you were having |
| 1:50.9 | a similar struggle. How to focus on the tasks or experiences of the day |
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