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Dec 04, 2022, 11:07 PM
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Member Since: Jul 2019
Location: Downtown Vibes, California
Posts: 15,701
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Originally Posted by Aurelius710
The Mindfulness of Breathing meditations I learned when I attended a Buddhist temple helped me immensely with negative thoughts. It's exactly what it says on the tin: One is supposed to focus on the breath and clear all else from your mind. I never could do it and it bugged me, until I realized it wasn't about clearing your mind at all, but returning to center. When I did that meditation and my thoughts strayed, I "looked" at my stray thoughts, accepted that they were there and turned my mental self back to center and the breath.
Took a lot of practice to get to that point!
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Thank you for sharing your experience with that, Aurelius. It is such an amazingly liberating experience when we are able to let that happen.
I feel like I've gone backwards. When I was younger I clicked into the concept of meditation well. "Watching my thoughts"...I understood the idea and was often able to pull it off pretty well. Along about my late 40's I began to feel so anxious, so fearful. Doubted my beliefs, doubted everything. Then the awful seasonal depressions and by now managing my thoughts has become terribly challenging.
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