It would help to first look at what is anxiety and why does it arise? The following article explains this.
Awareness Journey · October 4, 2022
Anxiety – Understanding what is happening underneath An Energy Psychology Perspective Anxiety is an electromagnetic vibration of a certain range of frequency that is felt in our emotional mind. Feeling wretched, afraid, alarmed, anxious, apprehensive, concerned, fearful, frightened, hesitant, horrible, jittery, nervous, panicky, shaky, shocked, startled, surprised, suspicious, uneasy, unglued, unnerved or worried are all part of the same range of vibration. All sentient beings possess this emotional vibration within them all the time and this is an evolutionary survival mechanism. When it is at the lowest frequency, it just remains dormant underneath and we do not feel it, we are able to go on with our lives. Certain triggers activate this dormant vibration and its frequency increases and comes out to the forefront and then we begin to feel any of the above listed feelings. There are three sources from which these triggers originate as listed below. 1. Limbic mind. When our physical wellbeing is threatened, it activates the trigger. When the glucose or oxygen levels in the body drops due to hunger or thirst or shallow breathing all of which goes unnoticed due to our mind being preoccupied when we are busy at work, the limbic response triggers the anxiety vibrations. It can also happen due to bad posture for long time, holding off the urge to urinate or other physical discomforts. 2. Emotional mind. Anxious vibrations active in others near us can also trigger the same in us by way of a mechanism similar to that of the tuning fork that vibrates with the same frequency of another nearby tuning fork without any contact. We are always connected with all our closest relatives such as siblings, child or parent and even when they are far away, our anxious vibrations get triggered when they are suffering extreme anxiety. This is empathy and even though the anxiety does not belong to us, we tend to feel it as though it is our own. 3. Rational mind. When we read or hear news, which we use to create imaginary scenarios of doom or unpleasantness for ourselves, we end up triggering our anxiety vibrations. Once the vibrations are triggered by any of the above origins, the other two join in and feeds an upward spiraling loop of progressively stronger vibrations. It is useful to understand that anxiety or any of its above associated emotions are merely electromagnetic vibrations and can be grounded and released into the earth. This is similar to the lightning rod and electrical earthing circuit, if a building does not have this it could get burned when lightning strikes. Similarly our anxiety energies can burn us out when we are not grounded for prolonged periods of time. The restless thought vibrations cause our natural grounding connection with the earth to disconnect. The best way to deal with anxiety therefore is, understanding the importance of being grounded and using the tools and techniques to regain our state of groundedness all the time. Conversely the worst way to deal with it is to keep on thinking and trying to find a solution to our anxiety, which gives a false impression of progress while taking us up the spiraling loop of anxiety towards burnout.
The following practice would help in cultivating a set of habits to return back to mindfulness and release anxiety. Regular practice would enable gradual reduction of medication.
Selvan Srinivasan · 1y
How can I meditate 24*7?
Yes it is possible to hold a background state of Awareness or be present in the here and now or be connected with your grounding or meditate 24×7 as you call it and yet be completely focussed on something else in the conscious part of your mind or logical / analytical mind (you call this without being aware). Before I tell you how to achieve it, I would like to explain what is happening here. Let me take the example of a juggler in a circus show. This person is able to juggle several things simultaneously but if he or she looks at one particular thing they will drop all the other things. So their conscious attention may be focussed on the audience and they may be making some funny face or saying some joke to entertain the audience but simultaneously they are probably juggling ten different balls of different sizes. Their conscious mind is mindful about the audience and talking with them and their unaware mind (as you call it) which is actually their background state of awareness is taking care of the hand movements to keep all the balls in the air in continuous motion. In other words, this juggler is being present and grounded or being mindful with all the balls he/she is juggling and and not aware of it because they are simultaneously entertaining the audience with their jokes and facial expressions. What happens normally when we work and are not being mindful is that we end up having very bad body posture which ruins our health and it turn reduces our efficiency and productivity at work. But if we stop working and start spending equal amount of time in meditation and exercise, we are not able to concentrate and complete our work on time. We would like to do both and this seems to be the aim of your question. The answer is to slowly cultivate a habit of returning back to your presence or grounding often during the day consistently. I suggest you begin with the following two practices for a few days and then see how you fare with your maths. 1) Selvans Deep crossing: https://youtu.be/qq6iKZquuVI 2) Selvans Short Meditation – Witnessing the Four Simultaneous Activities The first one takes three minutes and the second one takes five minutes so together it would be a ten minute practice. I suggest that you do this practice upon waking up in the morning and once again just before going to sleep at night. In addition please also repeat this ten minute practice once every two hours throughout your day. If you can do this consistently and cultivate a habit out of it you will be able to achieve what you aim for in a few months. I have answered a similar question before and you might be interested to read that answer here For more information and plenty of free resources to aid with the practice of meditation and deep healing, please visit my website.