Videos for anxiety

Obiwan said:
I'd recommend orthotics and a good podiatrist if you haven't tried it. I was amazed at how effective mine was.
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Thanks Obi. Yeah the first step is I've got an appointment with a family doctor and I was thinking she'll possibly refer me to a podiatrist. In the meantime I'm going to try to see also a physiotherapist.
 
Ian Gordon said:
My anxiety/emotional-mental storms are more like PTSD reactions, stemming from, well, (very early starting) trauma. I've already got different therapeutic modalities (psychological, chemical) going on now for almost a couple of decades. I can go through long stretches feeling fairly stable, with light anxious undercurrents, and occasionally extremely hard-to-manage reactions like this week. The thing is it's hard, when you're in it, to not freak out and think you're going to stay that way, because it's so intense and can be unrelenting. When it happens, I always regret not having already established meditation techniques.
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This describes my life, Ian, so I empathise. I don't have an answer for you or myself. I have started doing yoga once a week and taking a walk has proved more beneficial than any of the anti-depressants I've been prescribed over the years. But, looking back, what brings some stability has been to remove myself from stressful situations. I've had two long-term relationships and both were very stressful. I live alone now and, although I am on very good terms with both mothers of my two children, I would not go back to living with either.

That goes for small-scale triggers too. For example, I don't deal well with conflict but I do like to have my say in discussions. If the heat gets too much for me, I remove myself (which is why I take regular breaks from this forum). I have found that Meetup Groups are good for spending time with people of like mind and just infrequent enough to avoid emotional attachments or conflict.

People might say that I'm avoiding the problem rather than facing it and dealing with it but, like you, if I knew of a sure-fire way of dealing with it I'd try it.
 
Kamarling said:
People might say that I'm avoiding the problem rather than facing it and dealing with it but, like you, if I knew of a sure-fire way of dealing with it I'd try it.
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Thanks David. We're all doing what we can and looking for whatever works.
 
This is a hypnosis one that I've just tried. I've been at a very high peak of anxiety when I listened to it so I don't know how much it will help, but it's supposed to give results. I'm going to listen to it again tomorrow.


The same guy has very long "subliminal messages" videos, like this one:


But given the intensity of my anxiety right now I don't know if I'm in the mood to take this much time out on this sort of video. If anyone has had any positive experiences with these subliminal messages videos, let me know.
 
I wanted to suggest mediation but since you asked for a video I looked on youtube and found this:

Jon Kabat Zinn - Meditation Relieving Panic

I suggest you look up more videos on youtube with Jon Kabat Zinn.

I haven't watched this video but I've read articles by him and like the way he explains how meditation works:

"So this one can actually attenuate and liberate you a little bit from the constant thinking, thinking, thinking — a lot which is driven, of course, by anxiety and, "What’s wrong with me?" The story of me is often a depressing story. And a fear-based story."

http://bigthink.com/videos/jon-kabat-zinn-on-the-science-of-identity
If you put people in a scanner and tell them to just do nothing; just rest in the scanner; don’t do anything at all, it turns out that there’s a region in the midline of the cerebral cortex that’s known as the default mode network that just lights up, that all of a sudden gets very, very active. I mean you’re told to do nothing and then your brain starts to use up energy a lot. ... And that’s called the default mode network because when you’re told to do nothing, you default to activity in this mode and when you inquire what’s going on there, a lot of it has to do with my wondering and just daydreaming. And a lot of that has to do with the self-referencing our favorite subject, which is me of course. So we generate narratives. ... it’s also called the narrative mode network or the narrative network. And it’s the story of me.

When you train people in MBSR, you find that another area of their cortex lights up more lateral after eight weeks of training in mindfulness. And that that area is associated with a region called the insula and that doesn’t have a linear, time-based narrative. It’s just the experiencing of the present moment in the body — breathing in, breathing out, awake, no narrative, no agenda. And the interesting thing — and this is the study — when they put people through eight weeks of MBSR, this narrative network decreases in activity and this experiential network increases in activity and they become uncoupled. So they’re no longer caught together in such a way. So this one can actually attenuate and liberate you a little bit from the constant thinking, thinking, thinking — a lot which is driven, of course, by anxiety and, "What’s wrong with me?" The story of me is often a depressing story. And a fear-based story. We’re like driving the car with the brake on, with the emergency brake on. And if we learn how to just kind of release it, everything will unfold with less strain, with less stress and with a greater sense of life unfolding rather than you’re driving through it to get to some great pot of gold at the end, which might just be your grave.
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I meditate like this, and I recommend the technique for others.
 
Thanks Jim. I've mentioned a few videos already in this thread that use mindfulness meditation and I've been practicing with them. Like this one:
Ian Gordon said:
This is a short one for a panic attack using a mindfulness meditation technique.
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I'll look for some with Zinn. I wonder if he has some where he does a guided meditation guidance. At this point I feel like I need the guidance and the reassuring voice.
 
Jim_Smith said:
I wanted to suggest mediation but since you asked for a video I looked on youtube and found this:

Jon Kabat Zinn - Meditation Relieving Panic

I suggest you look up more videos on youtube with Jon Kabat Zinn.

I haven't watched this video but I've read articles by him and like the way he explains how meditation works:
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That's a good talk, Jim.
 
Brian_the_bard said:
Search Youtube for "binaural beats" and find either an alpha or a theta video. You will need headphones to get the psycho-acoustic effects. Some people don't get the effects for some reason but if you do, it is well worth it!

I have a thread on Binaural beats
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I don't know if it worked, but I did feel better after having this in the background. (Although I didn't use headphones.)
 
Ian Gordon said:
I don't know if it worked, but I did feel better after having this in the background. (Although I didn't use headphones.)
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I'm glad you found something useful. Headphones are needed for the effects because each ear needs to hear a separate tone but often with this kind of thing, the music is great on its own.
 
Also known as the 1st or Root Chakra, the Muladhara (sometimes spelled as mooladhara) is considered by many to be the most important Chakra (although we know they are all important, right?) because it is the Chakra that connects us to our physical world. Located at the base of our spine, it is the root chakra that governs over our physical energies, giving us a sense of safety and security with other people and ourselves.
 

c. 23 minutes: important insight, also mentioned in one of the videos posted above, about becoming aware of your addiction to thinking.

 
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