Decrease Anxiety With Mindful Attitudes

@Sody

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Mindfulness is the practice of being aware of whats happening or what your experiencing in the present moment.Its being here and now without judgment. This is a capacity that all human beings possess. Whenever you bring awareness to what youre directly experiencing via your senses, or to your state of mind via your thoughts and emotions, youre being mindful.

Mindfulness allows us to interrupt automatic, reflexive fight, flight, or freeze reactions, fear, foreboding, and worry. By bringing mindfulness to our actual experience in the moment, we can increase the likelihood of exerting more conscious control over our behaviors and attitudes. In so doing we learn to work with our intention, wise effort, will, discipline, and capacity to be kind to ourselves. These are all resources that can be harnessed and cultivated.

With that in mind, there are certain attitudes that play an important role when when working with anxiety mindfully. These attitudes are central to mindfulness, and fostering them will help you develop and sustain your practice. Its similar to adding nutrients to the soil to cultivate a vibrant and healthy garden. By attending to the attitudes of mindfulness, you can support your practice and help it flourish. And just as a well-tended garden bears seeds and fruit, so too will practicing mindfulness help foster all of the attitudes of mindfulness. Keep in mind that you may find slightly different lists of the attitudes of mindfulness in other places. Below are the qualities that we believe all play an important role in working with anxiety mindfully.

Read on a few of attitudes I found online

1) Volition or intention is the foundation that supports all of the other attitudes. Your intention, will, or volition is what sets you on the mindful path to working within yourself to gradually transform your anxiety and find more ease, freedom, and peace. By bringing intention to working with anxiety, youre developing persistence in seeing yourself as whole, capable, and resourceful.

2) Beginners mind is an aspect of mind thats open to seeing from a fresh perspective. Meeting anxiety in this way, with curiosity, can play an extremely important role in transforming your experience. When youre willing to adopt another point of view, new possibilities arise, and this can help you challenge anxious thoughts and feelings.

3) Patience is a quality that supports perseverance and fortitude when feelings of anxiety are challenging. Patience offers a broader perspective, allowing you to see that moments of anxiousness will pass in time.

4) Acknowledgment is the quality of meeting your experience as it is. For example, rather than trying to accept or be at peace with anxiety, you meet it and your experience of it as they are. You canacknowledge that anxiety is present and how much you dont like it, even as you apply patience and see anxiety as your current weather system, knowing it will pass.

5) Nonjudgment means experiencing the present moment without the filters of evaluation. In the midst of anxiety, it can be all too easy to experience a secondary layer of judgment on top of the already uncomfortable anxious feelings. Stepping out of nonjudgemental mind-set allows you to see more clearly. When you let go of evaluations, many sources of anxiety simply fade away. When you feel anxiety, adopting a nonjudgmental stance can reset your mind into a more balanced state.

6) Self-reliance is an important quality for developing inner confidence. With practice, you can learn to trust yourself and your ability to turn toward your anxiety or any other uncomfortable feeling. In turning toward these feelings, its important to bring other qualities of mindfulness to your experience, allowing the feelings, acknowledging them, and letting them be.

Discussion:

Take some time right now to slowly reread the descriptions of the attitudes of mindfulness. After reading each one, pause and reflect upon what it means to you, especially as you begin to work with anxiety. Take a moment to try on each attitude and see how it feels. As you do so, tune in to how you feel in your body, mind, and emotions. Finally, after trying on each attitude, briefly describe your experience, noting how it felt. For example, did it feel natural or easy to adopt a particular attitude, or was it difficult? If it was difficult, why might that be? Was the attitude unfamiliar, or did you feel yourself resisting it in some way?

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@Sody

very interesting post. the most difficult things for me are patience and beginner's mind/judgemental because i still automatically use profiling with people which limits the development of trust

@amiablePeace77

HI Peace I do agree with you on patience and the beginners mind/judgemental are difficult toacheive. I understand on the "profiling" others to develop trust. It is almost like a coping skill you know. To protect us from further hyrt. I do hope in time by more practices and giving yourself some patience n kindness that you have no need to do this. But feel safe and secure with others.

@Sody

thanks for your kind words Sody

@Sody this is very interesting. Sounds a lot like the 9 attitudes series of youtube videos by Jon Kabat-Zinn. thanks for sharing this.

@soulsings

Hiya Souls Yes it kinda does-lol I searched alot on this cause someone was talking on this. I found very interesting things and could of kept sharing

@Sody

Hey Sody, Sorry for late reply. Such an interesting post. Thank you for sharing with us. <3

@ASilentObserver

Hey there Silent better late then..................ummmm hey you got some coffee

@Sody

coffee????? where is the coffee?

@Sody - Thank you so much for posting this! I started mindfulness to help with anxiety a few months ago and found it really helps - I'm less tired, more focused and more rational and relaxed in my thinking, so thank you for this post!:)

@Sody

Thanks for posting this info. I will read it and later post my answers.