Is There Anything That You Can Do to Help Your Anxiety?

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When i first started meditating really seriously, the anxiety nearly killed me. And it would not subside in 90 seconds. It went on for hours and days and weeks. For me, the anxiety became a horse that just ran and ran and ran. But unlike okewle, i am not the horse. So what am i? And i was the watcher,. or the compassionate witness, as it's called in some traditions. Now if i experience anxiety, anger, whatever, and i experience them every day, i stop and i say to the part that is upset, what's going on with you right now? What can i do for you? Because i've practised

Martha Beck is a bestselling author, life coach, and speaker who specializes in helping individuals and groups achieve greater levels of personal and professional success. She is the author of nine nonfiction books and one novel, and has been a longtime contributor to O, The Oprah Magazine. Her most recent book is The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self

Eric and Martha discuss how to live in integrity and find the path to your true self.

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Martha Beck and I Discuss The Path to Your True Self and …

Her book, The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self\
How what we often want is influenced by our culture
Asking ourselves what we yearn for as opposed to what you want
The repetitive cycle of thoughts that cause fear
How our culture reinforces the fear
Learning to move from fear to curiosity
How humor and using your senses can turn down our fear
The dilemma of when our nature conflicts with our culture
Psychological suffering comes from the thoughts we choose to believe
Why suffering is needed to make us pay attention and can actually be our ally
Understanding that we have different “internal parts” that make up our whole self (Ref. to Richard Schwartz’s Internal Family Systems
Her New Year’s resolution to not lie for a year and the healing that she found
Navigating her way out of the Mormon religion
How switching our identity to a material self to a limitless state of being brings joy
Learning to imagine the good that will come from facing our discomfort
The power of small, incremental, and repetitive actions to change your life