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I have high anxiety and I hate being alone
Rachel asks…
“I’m only a teen, and I talk to somebody about my anxiety issues. She said I have high anxiety, and I also have nightmares. I HATE being alone. Even in my own house. I’ve talked to my therapist about meditation, deep breathing exercises, and muscle relaxation. But when I get to sleep and wake up from one of these nightmares, it just makes me sweat and breathe faster and faster. Tips?”
Habit Guide includes relaxation and meditation as part of a complete health system that gets to the roots of nearly all our suffering. So please read Habit Guide as your first step and you’ll see very clearly, the causes of health problems, what to do about it and most importantly… how to do it.
All problems have many factors, so you need to correct all factors to find the true cure and be happy and healthy. Habit Guide will show you what all these factors are and how to correct them.
Normally, I would say if you feel very anxious, the best remedy is to exercise. That’s because your body goes into a “flight or flight” state and so it basically prepares for exercise, to enable you to fight or run away, so it’s the perfect natural solution… Read more
Fear of death
Gerardo asks…
“I don’t know what’s happening to me. I was fine until maybe 2 months ago one morning — I was making a pizza and out of nowhere I had a big panic attack. I felt unreal and started thinking about death and how unreal everything is.
And from that day on, I think about those things and I get a warm feeling on my stomach. And i get scared and that’s how I’ve been feeling for the past 2 months. I’m tired and angry — I just want to be like I was before but I don’t know how, and also I am kinda scared of going to sleep.”
Fear of death has been said to be the root of all fear. It’s the great unknown isn’t it? Perhaps I cease to exist altogether!? The end of ME!? But I don’t see death anywhere around me. Everywhere I only see LIFE… Read more
The importance of health
How can we learn the importance of health without having to suffer first?
This is how it often plays out… we’re born, we unwittingly get into bad habits, we suffer, and then if we’re lucky, we figure out what’s gone wrong and fix it. But most often, we don’t figure it out, and just simply suffer more and more. That’s a tragedy… pointless suffering. And even if we do figure it out, old habits die hard. The road back can be full of pit-falls… Read more
Can’t stop thinking
Please Help asks…
“The thought is a very silly one, and what’s worse is I know that it isn’t true, but it still pops up! (As I was typing this, for example, ‘How do you know it isn’t true’ popped up, but I just ignored it.) The last two weeks have been very good, and I haven’t had any issues with the thought because I’ve been distracted with school (a sign that the thought is definitely losing some of it’s hold over me, as earlier this term even school couldn’t distract me from it.)
However it’s now the holidays and I have very important exams coming up, and I’m worried about being on my own and stuck in the house for so long because when I’m on my own the thought does tend to pop up and I can’t shake it, and this in turn stops me from being able to revise which makes me even more stressed and so makes the thought and the anxiety worse… Read more
How to stick to your New Year’s resolutions
© Avital Gertner
Do you want to finally be able to stick to your New Year’s resolutions?
Do you want to look good, feel good and have plenty of energy in 2012?
We know what we want. What’s seriously lacking is how to get it — how to lose weight, how to get ourselves to exercise, how to eat healthily and so on. We know we should but when it comes to that critical moment we cave…
Often, all our good intentions are crushed by the most minuscule set back. How easily we cave!
We go around and around in circles — attempting, failing, giving up, getting fed up and back to another attempt which is equally doomed to failure!
Of course, we know when our lifestyle is having bad consequences. And every New Year our attention is focused in on our own particular lifestyle issues. It’s time for a fresh start, to put the past behind us and look to the future. Mentally we just love the idea of a new year for making changes… Read more
