Defeated the Anxiety

[Rahul998]

One month ago I have posted here about my anxiety here :

I'm suffering from Agora-Fobia


From last two week I'm feeling fully free , not worried/feared in even a single moment , not even a single panic attack . Last week i have given two seminars/presentations in my college in the front of lots of people with full confidence ....

What I have done & doing : from last 2 months meditating(although not experienced any deeper or meditative state yet) with lifeflow-10 , I also listens lifeflow-10 in sleep ... listened self-hypnosis audios 5-6 times .... doing some simple aerobics exercise(2-3 times per week , not regularly ) ......

I don't know what exactly helped me from all this (Or in contribution) ...

One more improvement i observed is Memory .... before few months ago what I could read in a half hour with 20% comprehension(or lower , I know how I was doing my engineering ) , now i can read the in 10 minutes with 80% comprehension ..... .... I don't know how (May be the "LifeFlow" ) ....


-Thanks LifeFlow & Michael Mackenzie & Project-Meditation Members

[Boris Badenov]

Very good Rahul, I know exactly what you are going through. I suffer from anxiety and panic as well and sometimes my memory was almost non-existent. My panic attacks have become a lot less severe through diet and meditation, I feel as if I have gotten my life back.

[Franz]

Hello to both of you. I myself also used to suffer from anxiety and panic attacks. Once I started meditating and using Lifeflow I eliminated them completely. Just wanted to quickly share how the process went. I didn't simply just wake up and they disappeared. My panic attacks went from every day to everyother day, then a couple of times a week then to once a week, then a couple of times a month, to once a month, to just anxiety without ever reaching a full blown panic attack, to mild anxiety, to very little anxiety, then to being even more calm then even before my anxiety even started.

In my experience, every day I meditated I brought my anxiety benchmark down just slightly. There were even times when I would go a couple of weeks without any and it would just come back. The reason of this, in my experience, is that the gaps between the anxiety episodes become longer and longer. this is how you indicate that you are making progress. I used to think, "why did they come back?" Then I realized anxiety works like a cycle. Just know if you go a few weeks with any anxiety and they return for a brief moment it is because the cycle is dwindling down and that you're just going through the normal anxiety cycle and it will pass and to keep meditating. You ever notice that you will be fine one moment, then out of no where anxiety kicks in. Anxiety works like an alarm to make sure everything thing is ok. The more you relaxe and meditate the less and less the alarm goes off until eventually it is gone completely. Where the body goes the mind must follow so relaxe every muscle in your body when you meditate. Just know every time you reach a state of deep relaxation while meditating you have made progress. Talk to you soon.

[Harry Hondo]

Originally Posted by Franz

In my experience, every day I meditated I brought my anxiety benchmark down just slightly. There were even times when I would go a couple of weeks without any and it would just come back. The reason of this, in my experience, is that the gaps between the anxiety episodes become longer and longer. this is how you indicate that you are making progress. I used to think, "why did they come back?" Then I realized anxiety works like a cycle. Just know if you go a few weeks with any anxiety and they return for a brief moment it is because the cycle is dwindling down and that you're just going through the normal anxiety cycle and it will pass and to keep meditating. You ever notice that you will be fine one moment, then out of no where anxiety kicks in. Anxiety works like an alarm to make sure everything thing is ok. The more you relaxe and meditate the less and less the alarm goes off until eventually it is gone completely. Where the body goes the mind must follow so relaxe every muscle in your body when you meditate. Just know every time you reach a state of deep relaxation while meditating you have made progress. Talk to you soon.

Franz, I tend to view things in a medical/scientific manner, so even though I agree with your description I want to try and relate it to what's going on at the cellular level. I too have suffered from extreme anxiety since age 13 and in my research I've come across the findings that there is an imbalance of neurotransmitters, namely serotonin and dopamine. The one being a calming neurotransmitter (serotonin) and the other being stimulating. I'm only on Level 10, however I can tell that the two neurotransmitters in question are beginning to balance out, so the brain is producing proper levels of both, depending upon what the situation calls for. Essentially then, what meditation is doing is balancing the brain... we knew that, right?

I think over time your panic attacks become less frequent simply because your two main neurotransmitters are finally starting to come into balance with one another. And like most things, the process of achieving balance takes a little tweaking, therefore you'll occasionally have lapses of the anxiety until meditation has completed its task of balancing the brain.

[Franz]

That makes perfectly good sense Harry. Thats great to hear Rahul. It also feels as if after you overcome anxiety you carry something else with you. A better understanding of yourself that can only come to you through this experience. It continues to get better...just wait and see.

[M L K]

Rahul, Hondo, Boris, and Franz,
I have never had the anxiety issue to contend with, but it heartens me to hear how you are successfully using meditation and LF to find greater peace for yourselves. I'm wishing you continuing success and ever-deepening resources. Margaret