Use this calming guided meditation to bring yourself back to your natural state of inner stillness. Feel the peace and receive healing energy for your nervous system throughout the meditation.
What causes anxiety?
To get the most out of this guided meditation for anxiety, it is helpful to know what causes anxiety and in which situation your anxiety arises, and even identify triggers.
Every mental disturbance is really caused by one thing: emotions. And emotions are ‘energy in motion’. Jealousy, anger, loneliness, sadness - these are all different forms of energy in motion.
Happiness and joy come from peace, and peace happens when your energy is not moving. Perfect stillness of energy is perfect peace, perfect happiness.
When we are not thinking, our energy is calm. Every time you think, your energy moves. So you can see that emotions and nervousness are caused by your mind overthinking or over-worrying.
How the mind thinks
You can be thinking about your life, thinking about why your life is not working, thinking about how to solve your problems, thinking this, thinking that, thinking, thinking. Distracting your mind from other important more positive thoughts, beliefs and tasks.
Anxiety is being trapped in the mind
Of course, when energy moves like this for one minute, or two minutes, or five minutes, that’s fine. An hour is not too bad. But when that energy just keeps on moving, moving and then stops for a moment, and then repeats again, and that continues for days or weeks, you will start to feel anxiety. If it continues for a year or more, you will be diagnosed with anxiety and probably depression as well.
So anxiety happens over years, it doesn’t happen in five minutes. And when it continues for such a long time, you feel trapped and can’t get out of it.
You could be in a beautiful mansion, but if you’re locked there and can’t get out for many years, you’re not going to feel peaceful. In the same way, being trapped in the moving, non-peace energy creates this feeling of anxiety and suffering, and you want to get out of it. You want to get out of it but you can’t, so it feels like your spirit is jumping out of you.
Anxiety affects the nervous system
Anxiety is a mental illness that very heavily affects your nervous system. When you have that anxious energy, you feel nervousness and you can’t control it. And when your energy is moving constantly your nervous system can’t cope. It’s almost like an inner tremor, and it scares you or freaks you out. This is what is often referred to as an ‘anxiety attack’.