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CBT MINDFULNESS THERAPY FOR ANXIETY RELIEF

CBT, or cognitive behavioral therapy, involves changing thoughts, its the cognitive part, and actions, the behavior pattern, that interfere with leading a fulfilling and healthy life. The aim of CBT is to help you become your own therapist, and the skills are practical, goal-oriented, and can be practiced every day. Some CBT strategies aim to change thoughts and behaviors, while others promote mindfulness and awareness. Anxiety may cause your thoughts to wander, you may fret about the past, or about what might go wrong in the future. Mindfulness helps focus your attention on whatever you’re doing right now, in the present moment. Acceptance strategies help you cope with, and even accept, uncomfortable situations or emotions that you can’t control or change. THE CBT MODEL OF EMOTIONS CBT breaks emotions down into three parts: thoughts , physical sensations, and behaviors. Say you’re afraid of dogs and you see a dog coming toward you along the sidewalk. You feel afraid—that’s your

METTA MEDITATION FOR OCD

Metta meditation guided - Meditation involves using specific thoughts

That was said Metta meditation loving kindness because Metta in the Poly language of the Buddha roughly means loving kindness. Most OCD sufferers think using meditation might be challenging, the OCD has a way of turning the very concept of meditation into its opposite. But this doesn't mean you can't meditate because if you are obsessive compulsive disorder it means you have to allow for the OCD. In this OCD video series we're practice meditation for positive energy called a Metta meditation. Assumption you did practice breathing meditation, maybe you've practiced the progressive muscle relaxation meditation, as we learn in the previous videos.

So there's another form of meditation that involves using specific thoughts or phrases as your anchor of attention instead of the breath. That's why this metta meditation guided video works well for OCD medication.

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