Guest guest Posted December 30, 2007 Report Share Posted December 30, 2007 Hi I am new here, i've been looking around here for a while. Not so long ago I read the post from Mr Forsyth with in it an exercise called 'Compassion with Anxiety'. While the intention of the exercise made sense, I found that doing the exercise is very hard. First of all 'breath in anxiety' I don't know how to do that. When you have GAD it's not realy like you can make up an anxious thought, it's not like having a phobia or something, actualy most of the time the mind is very dull because of the disconnected feelings of unreality I often have. but before I could make up any anxious thought it was time to breath out again. But I should breath out good stuff like love en joyfulness, I don't realy know how to do that either, I just breath out air. Not to sound offending towards the exercise, I realy liked it and I have read stuff about tonglen. Its just that it sounds a bit vague at some points. Is it possible to give examples of breathing out joyfulness and breathing in anxiety? Ofcourse this is all very new to me so its wrong to expect that it will work out perfectly at the very first try. But I can realy use some sugestions for doing this exercise. Thanks Mark,, Holland Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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