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BODY SCAN FOR ANXIETY
1AlwaysThere1 December 16th, 2017

Hey everyone. I started meditation last year and find this particular method called 'body scan' really helpful in calming anxiety.

So, here's how you can do it:

1. Sit comfortably, close your eyes.

2. The main thing is to focus your breath to parts of the body, you can go from head to toe, toe to head, or just randomly start from any body part.

3. As you go through it, you'll find some sensations running through that specific area, just breath in slowly and breath out while noticing the sensation.

4. After the whole body scan part by part, try to direct a single breath to the whole body.

It is explained in a better and detailed way here:

https://www.mindful.org/beginners-body-scan-meditation/

Take care everyone. <3

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PhoenixAsh December 16th, 2017

Thanks for sharing this with us! I've used this in the past, and found it really helpful ^-^

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1AlwaysThere1 OP December 17th, 2017

@PhoenixAsh

Yes, it is indeed.

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gloriousSunrise61 December 17th, 2017

@1AlwaysThere1 Thank you for sharing this!

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1AlwaysThere1 OP December 19th, 2017

@gloriousSunrise61

:)

Hope you try it.

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politeSun December 19th, 2017

@1AlwaysThere1

Thank you for sharing.

only its a bit hard to get myself to sit when I am anxious.... but I will surely try this

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1AlwaysThere1 OP December 19th, 2017

@politeSun

Yeah, it can be. When I started, my mind used to wander every 2 sec., its getting better now.

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