Relieve Your Anxiety with this Meditation for Self Soothing

[@eprohoda]

Good day. how unusual dji. Homespa. 🤝

[@homespabeauty]

Have a lovely day! 😊

[@tammy_oh_nevermind]

Wish I was better at that. Unless I'm quite relaxed to begin with, my mind won't allow it. 😁

[@homespabeauty]

So true! I think most of us have that mental block - with practice I’ve improved but it can still be a real challenge on those stress filled days 🙏🏻😊

[@PolLight3000]

And here I'm now...😁: “Relief your anxiety…” - that would actually be absolutely perfect for me. Unfortunately, I was never able to do much with meditation or meditative exercises. However, I didn't even know about this box breathing, although it seems to be very common, it is also called the Navy Seals method... I was always taught the "4-7-8 breathing technique", but the 7 and 8 seconds parts are just too long for me! If I'm not already completely relaxed, I tend to be even more stressed because of that. I guess I should definitely try box breathing.😊 But there is even much more that makes a meditation like this very difficult for me. But I'm not quite sure if I should write all of this here... Anyway, that much is already certain: I'm just a pretty messed up guy...🙈😅

[@homespabeauty]

It sounds like there are lots of similar breathing techniques and you just need to find the one that works for you 😀 I think we're all messed up and its the clever ones that know it 😂If you think you're not, you've just not figured out what your thing is! One thing I know is that we can always have a good chat on here 👍

[@PolLight3000]

Yes indeed, the chats are always great, I always feel very honored.😊🙇🏻‍♂️ But my thoughts on my problems with meditation (or certain other relaxation techniques) are very "special" (and personal). I almost wrote them here and they're still in the text storage, but: One of my main problems is that I analyze everything - and too much.🙄 A psychotherapist also accused me of this, although in that case it was necessary because he had recommended a “life coach” to me who had a right-wing extremist background😬, which the therapist did not know.😶 Still, he's right...🙄😉

[@homespabeauty]

@@PolLight3000 Your stories belong in a book! You have the gift of the gab as we say here - you can hold a reader’s attention with your true tales in a way that not many people can 👍🏻 Your experiences make you a very interesting person (although I can understand they might not have been great to go through at the time!) 😊

[@PolLight3000]

@@homespabeauty In fact, I once thought I should write a book - although that was more of a joke.😏 I'm far too unstructured and disorganized to actually write a book.🙈😁 By chance I once became a “guest editor” for a book written by a friend from Luxembourg. That was fun, I even halved his really “exaggerated praise” for my cooperation on this occasion.🤣 But in the end that wasn't my text, I just tinkered with the German version. This was a very special non-fiction book, maybe I could do something similar myself. But with this book that I'm supposed to write here, I wouldn't even know how to start or what the actual topic should be... Apart from that, most people get annoyed by my stories after a short time.🙄 And “writing” in general: My Abitur paper in the subject German had to be corrected independently by three different teachers, which was mandatory back then (my own teacher and two from other schools, none of whom knew each other). Legally, I should never have known the individual grades, but my teacher told me his grade anyway because he thought my work was quite good. From this it was then calculated that the other two teachers must have each given me a devastating grade!🤯 This got me thinking... Well, and then I'm only interesting to people if they need help from me in some way, otherwise nobody usually wants to have more to do with me than absolutely necessary, I have enough examples of this too. These chats here are something different, really special for me🙇🏻‍♂️, unfortunately they don't reflect the real life around me.😒 Oh yes, and quite simply: I don't have the money to have a book published, I would have to pay in advance, that's common practice over here.😉 By the way, my Luxembourgish friend even failed twice: In the end, his employer (the Luxembourg Police) took over the rights to the above-mentioned book so that the book could be published at all. But the law says you can't make any money from the book. Some Years later my friend found a really nice publisher for a sequel to the book (which I wasn't involved with), but that man suddenly died. My friend was then cheated by the heirs due to a loophole in the law - he'll never get a cent for his book(s)... I can do without that.😶

[@homespabeauty]

@@PolLight3000 What an experience! I can imagine a blog would do well with all your tales. You’ve certainly got a lot to share 👍🏻😊

[@grumpy9721]

I assure I wanted to follow along... but I fell asleep after few seconds😅

[@homespabeauty]

I’ll take that! Sleep is always a winner 👍🏻😊