Mindful Breathing for Anxiety

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Regular practice of mindfulness meditations has been widely researched and has been shown to reduce symptoms like anxiety, depression and stress and increase quality of life and overall well-being. Walk through a simple breathing exercise with Dr. Christiane Wolf, Mindfulness and Insight Meditation Teacher at InsightLA. [1/2022] [Show ID: 37746]

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I hope everyone who's watching this has the strength to just get of bed today, the that you're watching this video means that you're trying, and that's enough ♥

iamaffirmation
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June 27. My wife 46 birthday, Her health is not good. We met in 1973. I stumbled across this video. Thank you Richard in Toronto.

rmleighton
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Hate anxiety. I really don't want to get out of bed and go to work most days. Hoping these mindfulness exercises help me out.

ald
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Useful video. To reduce overthinking and stress most important is to be careful what you feed your mind and body. Avoid comparing yourself with others, any bottled up emotions need to be shared with someone, reduce watching negative social media and avoid constipation as it affects the mind. Your breathing is closely related to the brain [mind] and gives relief from stress-anxiety. For a relaxed mind observe the sensations of your natural incoming--outgoing breath at the entrance of the nostrils for 10-15 minutes or more. You can sit anywhere or lay down--eyes open or closed--No deep breathing. Don’t fight your thoughts. Never meditate with expectations. Make it a lifetime habit to observe your breath day and night before sleep, when travelling, when reading, at the workplace etc, etc. Best wishes--Counsellor.

shyaaammeneen
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Found this during an anxiety attack and realized I practiced with this teacher once at a retreat. This was very soothing. Thank you.

carlosue
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Found this. Thank you! Was having a mild anxiety attack

maegs
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I don’t know what’s wrong with me, I just cried the entire time 😅

GemSounds
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what if the 'present moment' is full of pain? i have chronic head pain as part of depression, anxiety.. i sit with this and its close to intolerable...

jasonstone
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My mental health has been quite weird honestly…
Anxiety. Emetophobia. Nostalgic depression. I get anxiety in the morning, noon, and the deep nostalgic depression at night. Sometimes both of them hit at the same time and it ruins my day/appetite. Been like this for about a year and a half. I’m 17.
I feel stuck because I feel like I can’t tell anyone about this. I’m not close enough with my friends to talk to them about this. I don’t feel comfortable sharing my issues with the school councillor/teachers/police/strangers, etc. I know if I tell my mum she’ll use it against me in arguments (verbally abusive) and just put me down when she’s in a bad mood (she has very unstable mood patterns). If I tell my dad, well, he doesn’t believe in mental health issues. Once I tried to reach him little about my anxiety and he told me he has it too, but how he dealt with it was to suck it up, study hard, and it’s very obvious that he thinks he’s helping. And when he thinks he’s right, he becomes stubborn and there’s no way I can help him help me on this mental illness situation.

What bothers me the most currently is the nostalgic depression. Literally everything makes me nostalgic. Looking out the window, etc. it’s absurd. I think I miss my childhood before Covid, because that’s when quarantine began and relationships failed. Now it’s so bad because I have school and going into uni. I wish I could just be a careless child again. I wish there were no responsibilities and just friends. No loneliness. Loneliness is what I face on a day to day basis at school because I am swept up in nostalgic depression or social anxiety. I am starting to see no point in anything.

My mental health is getting worse by the day but I’m keeping my mouth shut. I just hope everything would resolve in my head. I am so desperate to tell someone in person about my struggles but no person is available to me, at least one I feel comfortable bawling my feelings out to. However there’s no one out there.

What should I do next?

Leon-cdfg
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Perfect video! It works if you're on a time crunch and need a quick way to relieve any stress/anxiety you may be feeling. Life sometimes brings us down, but the best part is, we can always go up!

stoddard
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Thank you
for this!! I have type 1 diabetes, and this morning i had my first high, with my sugar being 376. I treated it, then listened to this, and my sugar went back in range!!!😊

laylahayes
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if depressed one’s living in the past
if anxious one’s living in the future
this isn’t the asmr video I was looking for, but it’ll do

starless
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Found this during an anxiety attack and realized I practiced with this teacher once at a retreat. This was very soothing. Thank you.

SofiaVanderPol-ox
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what if your body is stack in anxiety while your mind is fine, i have no thoughts that upset me but my body starts feeling tense and its hard for me to relax

jefimijakoncar
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Useful video. To reduce overthinking and stress most important is to be careful what you feed your mind and body. Avoid comparing yourself with others, any bottled up emotions need to be shared with someone, reduce watching negative social media and avoid constipation as it affects the mind. Your breathing is closely related to the brain [mind] and gives relief from stress-anxiety. For a relaxed mind observe the sensations of your natural incoming--outgoing breath at the entrance of the nostrils for 10-15 minutes or more. You can sit anywhere or lay down--eyes open or closed--No deep breathing. Don’t fight your thoughts. Never meditate with expectations. Make it a lifetime habit to observe your breath day and night before sleep, when travelling, when reading, at the workplace etc, etc. Best wishes--Counsellor.

StephinePrysock
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This doesn't work for me - yes I'm in the future, and no I don't know that the future is going to be okay because there are lots of problems in my life. So yeah if I'm fine in the moment, then it seems like we're saying "Well you're fine right now, you're not in imminent danger, so you shouldn't be feeling anxious, just don't worry about all the other stuff that's going to come and bite you on the ass. Now run along". I watched this on the 4th day of anxiety driven chest pain.

davidrgilson
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Feeling anxious about not ever being good enough. Im so focused on how i used to be, im neglecting all the work my present self has put in. Healing my inner child has been one of the hardest things I've ever had to do. This has been effecting everything in my daily life, from caring for my children, being a wife, going to school, and working. My mind doesn't stop racing with the what-ifs.

alaynahenson
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Thank you for this interesting mindful technique 🙏.

myfreedom
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Thank you Christiane, what you said about the mind is either in the past, rehashing or in the future, rehearsing. That is so well said and really clarified things for me!

joelbogart
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Any body how are here and watching this video, you are not too bad, because you could open your computer and seek help.
for all of you, what ever this nasty feelings are, they are going to go over. :) happy to get rid of this

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