Buddhists relaxation..

[jenkydora]

In the anxiety group, just last night, we learnt a budhists relaxation. The therapist asks us to look at 10 things around the room, and mentally note the item, then feel 10 items, be it the collar on your neck, toes in your shoes, ring on your finger, your rear on the chair, and hear 5 sounds, hard to hear 10 things, cause it relatively quiet, and then to cut it down by 5 items to look at, hear and feel, then down to just one, it is amazing how calm you end up feeling at the end of this.
These buddhist will probably live to be 150 years old.

I'm not totally clear, what this does, it does bring your attention to your breath, and you go within, in a good way.

Feel free to elaborate on this, I'm more interested in what this does for the mind and body.

Do you think this could be used in a high anxiety situation.?

Relaxation is so much easier in a no risk anxiety environment, put yourself where the anxiety is and its so much harder.

jenky

[Loopycat]

I am starting to learn about Buddhism also and am trying to practice it during high anxiety situations. Sometimes I have been able to change my immediate reactions in response to anxiety but I have not yet been able to stop the feeling.

[caseybug]

I practice Buddism meditation as well. I think it works well for sa sufferers because you have to channel your energy into focusing on these small usually insignificant things. we are used to analysing, thinking and worrying about everything in our lives, losing this energy to calm ourselves.

buddist ways can definetely work wonders for sa.

[Anatomica]

I'm a Buddhist, but I've only started the meditating part recently (I'm not a convert, I was just born one so I never took it seriously). Buddhist ways can definitely help with sa. I like to go this site http://www.bswa.org, and listen to the Dhamma talks. They're not boring, some are actually very funny. One of things that one of them said that really struck me was to practice positive affirmations, to learn from successes, instead of mistakes,because when you focus on the mistakes your thoughts become negative.

He also talks about how punishments never work, for example when a parent punishes their kid for something, the kid becomes sad, angry which are negative emotions which leads to further bad behavior. Instead work on giving them positive remarks on the things they do well. Anyways, enough of my rambling, but I'm beginning to discover my own religion and I wish I had done it sooner.

[Ms Deer]

Hi Inane and thanks for yet another excellent Buddhist website. I've added it to my favorites.

Making a small correction to your URL. It doesn't display because you've inadvertently added a , (comma) at the end.

Correctly displayed it is:
http://www.bswa.org/

Thanks again!

[fiver]

Hey, thanks for that, I think I'm gonna try that next time I'm in a social situation.

[Anatomica]

no problem Ms Deer!

[Caedmon]

Originally Posted by jenkydora

Do you think this could be used in a high anxiety situation.?

Relaxation is so much easier in a no risk anxiety environment, put yourself where the anxiety is and its so much harder.

jenky

If you practice it daily in a low-stress environment, over a period of a few weeks or months, then it should work in anxious situations as well. You'll just need to establish that psychological "base" first.