My anxiety has gotten much better with daily meditation and daily mindfulness practice, but I still have a little ways to go to my ideal self of calm and living moment by moment. Mindfulness makes me think of where I was when I was a child when living moment to moment was actually quite natural. I want that natural mindfulness again.
I meditate 30 to 60 minutes every day now for the past couple of years. I want to work into my schedule 30 to 60 minutes in the evening as well, but I find that difficult because sleepiness takes over.
My anxiety is not as bad as it use to be, but I realize now how bad it really was. With meditation and mindfulness I'm more aware of my anxiety. I notice that I'm actually anxious about the next moment after the next moment even though I have no data to support my reason for being anxious. Getting stuck in the thought streams about the feelings from those anxious feelings is where I often end up.
My favorite meditation is "loving kindness" meditations. They seem to really help with the negativity that comes with anxieties dark streams of thought. When anxiety runs you so low that you start to feel depressed and disconnected from your feelings these types of meditations help you reconnect.
Anyways, I'm new here and look forward to contributing whenever I can. Thanks for approving me.
Kevin