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Whether you call it serpent power, kundalini, the power of Soul Consciousness, or Divine Consciousness, the gift of this divine energy gives a person equilibrium. You must remember that whenever your mind is in a state of equilibrium, you will be radiant. Your spirit will rise like the tide rises. When the moon is near the Earth, there is a high tide. The same thing happens to the spirit in a person.
Yogi Bhajan (via babylibra)
alternative positive anxiety coping tools:
running - (my personal favorite/most successful for me) it gets my heart rate up through activity and peaks it in a different way than anxiety makes it, so after a nice long run my heart rate slows down, i’ve had a nice distraction and also some reflection time to think about whats been bothering me. i also feel pride in being active and that helps counteract the negative feelings that come with anxiety.
yoga - its a good way to relax your mind and your muscles, anxiety tends to cause a lot of tension and doing yoga helps loosen you up so you don’t have to deal with at least some of the physical symptoms.
meditation
breathing techniques** - i starred this one because its something to take note of no matter what tool you’re using to calm down, slowing your breathing generally helps calm you down and helps counteract the catastrophic thinking and helps you to think more rationally, someone described it well: Sit in silence. Close your eyes. Take some slow deep deep breathes. Listen to your heart beat, and your breathing. Try to not concentrate on anything but your heart beats. Don’t let any bad thoughts enter your mind, if your mind wanders focus it back to monitoring your heart rate and your breathing. its also important to breath into your belly, not your chest!
doing chores or small tasks - helps you get shit done and gives you a sense of accomplishment
long hot bath - read a book, light a candle, make yourself comfortable!
listening to slow/relaxing music (someone said jazz is really helpful specifically)
make a list of the things bothering you - and then start writing solutions for them, getting your thoughts down on paper helps you realize them how they actually are and can help you come to a solution or approach more easily when you aren’t being bombarded with negative thoughts distracting you from finding a solution. only the words you’re writing are what you should focus on
take a nap - i know its usually hard to sleep with anxiety but if you can get some rest it usually helps with cooling down and getting through/avoiding the panic
5-4-3-2-1 -Take a deep breath. Name the basic shapes and colors of FIVE things you see (ex. red circle=stoplight). Close your eyes. Name FOUR things you feel touching you (I feel the chair under me, I feel the air from the fan.. etc.) Name THREE sounds you hear at the moment.Take two deep breaths. Name TWO scents in your environment. Take a deep breath. Name ONE thing you are grateful for/like about yourself. Exhale slowly. (this was said to help with especially with public attacks)
4/7/8 - breathe in for 4 seconds through your nose, then hold 7 seconds, then you blow all your air out from your mouth for 8 seconds. repeat this until your calm. you can also use it if you have trouble sleeping
a cup of hot tea
make art - don’t worry about being neat, be sloppy, be emotional get that anger or frustration or whatever feelings that are fueling that anxiety and put them into your gesture, throw paint on the canvas, scribble hard with the pen, really allow your emotion to be put into the art. it helps you relieve tension and also reflect and gives you something cool to look at after. it gets the feelings out of your head/chest and on to something else.
write down everything you’re feeling - don’t think, don’t plan, just write.
cook something hella yummy - the process helps gives you something to focus on, and gives you something good to eat by the time you’ve calmed yourself down
holding an ice cube in your hand - focus on the cold and nothing else, til it melts, let your anxiety melt with it
tense and release method - Tense your face for 10 seconds relax. then neck, then shoulders, then one arm, the other arm etc… when you’re tensing hold your breath. when it’s all done lay down/or do this laying down and at the end just allow your whole body to relax
sit down - put your head between your knees, close your eyes, inhale through your nose to fill your lungs, hold for 10 seconds, exhale slowly while counting to 10
brain stimulation - puzzles/crosswords/building something/sudoku etc
taking a string - (thread or a hoodie string anything) and wrapping it around your finger then unwinding it and wrapping it around the other finger helps bc its so monotonous but easy to focus on
take a long warm shower - let the water wash the anxiety off of you
clenching and unclenching your fists
singing loudly
visualize the worst possible outcome - and how even in the worst turn of events there is always the next time the following day your world will not end regardless of what is to come there is always another opportunity another chance although circumstances change the potential remains the same your potential your ambition is undiminishable failure may be a lost battle but never a lost war
glitter jars - shake it, watch the glitter settle to the bottom, its calming to watch, repeat as many times as necessary
i compiled this list from personal experiences as well as tons of asks and advice from my followers. everyone has a different experience with anxiety, there’s no universal method or technique thats going to help everyone, but i will say controlling your breathing is something everyone should try and take note of or practice because it really does help alleviate a lot of the physical symptoms. these are not all of the possible methods or techniques just what either me or my friends and/or followers have found to help them. i hope this helps you guys as well. much love to all of you!!! you’re not alone with this!!
This is so important and so helpful. I alternate between all of these every time I get anxious and they all work v well! Please do these I’m sure at least one should work!
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Murder, death, violence, and mental illness are symptoms of a dying nation that refuses to take Life seriously. Life goes beyond nations. Life goes beyond politics. Life goes beyond death. I don't think we take death seriously enough and as a consequence we live complacently. We live for things. We live for ideologies. We live for happiness, but do we know happiness?
What does happiness mean to you?
Everything affects everything. In this universe, when one thing changes, everything changes (all minds are joined). Hence the great power of man in changing the world by changing himself.
Nisargadatta (via oceanandwave)
Violent Relationships with Dr. Leelia Franck
The media will show you the “angry mob” responding to police in Ferguson when the police shot an unarmed teenager, and then brought a dog and something that looked like a tank to face the crowd.
They won’t show you this.
This one time after a police shooting in my neighborhood (shot three people after they had crashed their car and were injured and needed medical attention), this guy came up to me crying and whispering under his breath “they’re always killing us, they’re always killing us.” I hugged that man harder than I’ve ever hugged someone in my life.
For future reference.
Thank you.
For those who would ever need it. -C
reblogging here because i can see this being relevant to anyone who’s ever tried to get out of an abusive relationship
Reblogging because that last comment made me reread the whole thing in a new light and realize this could be vital information. So, putting it out there for everyone, and hoping no one ever really needs it.
Open your eyes.
New age Genocide
reblogging again
#grande_dre @zellieimani #HandsUp #MikeBrown #BlackLivesMatter #RipMikeBrown #StopLyingOnFerguson #IfTheyGunnedMeDown
Police now forcing journalist and camera crews out of Ferguson. Still tear gassing protestors and aiming rifles and shot guns at people attempting to pass them and walk home. - PEACHES
HE HANDED THAT SHIT TO HIMMMMM
Farrakhan does not fear man. Amen.
DANM!!
I think this make the 10th time ive reblogged this
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Prison Labor Exposed: From Starbucks to Microsoft - A sampling of what US prisoners make & for whom May 21, 2013
Tens of thousands of US inmates are paid from pennies to minimum wage—minus fines and victim compensation—for everything from grunt work to firefighting to specialized labor.
The breaded chicken patty your child bites into at school may have been made by a worker earning twenty cents an hour, not in a faraway country, but by a member of an invisible American workforce: prisoners. At the UnionCorrectional Facility, a maximum security prison in Florida, inmates from a nearby lower-security prison manufacture tons of processed beef, chicken and pork for Prison Rehabilitative Industries and Diversified Enterprises (PRIDE), a privately held non-profit corporation that operates the state’s forty-one work programs. In addition to processed food, PRIDE’s website reveals an array of products for sale through contracts with private companies, from eyeglasses to office furniture, to be shipped from a distribution center in Florida to businesses across the US. PRIDE boasts that its work programs are “designed to provide vocational training, to improve prison security, to reduce the cost of state government, and to promote the rehabilitation of the state inmates.”
And Each month, California inmates process more than 680,000 pounds of beef, 400,000 pounds of chicken products, 450,000 gallons of milk, 280,000 loaves of bread, and 2.9 million eggs (from 160,000 inmate-raised hens).Starbucks subcontractor Signature Packaging Solutions has hired Washington prisoners to package holiday coffees (as well as Nintendo Game Boys). Confronted by a reporter in 2001, a Starbucks rep called the setup “entirely consistent with our mission statement.”
Texas inmates produce brooms and brushes, bedding and mattresses, toilets, sinks, showers, and bullwhips.
In Texas, prisoners make officers’ duty belts, handcuff cases, and prison-cell accessories. California convicts make gun containers, creepers (to peek under vehicles), and human-silhouette targets.
A stitch in time: California inmates sew their own garb. In the 1990s, subcontractor Third Generation hired 35 female South Carolina inmates to sew lingerie and leisure wear for Victoria’s Secret and JCPenney. In 1997, a California prison put two men in solitary for telling journalists they were ordered to replace “Made in Honduras” labels on garments with “Made in the usa.”
Open wide: At California’s prison dental laboratory, inmates produce a complete prosthesis selection, including custom trays, try-ins, bite blocks, and dentures.
Constructive criticism: Prisoners in for burglary, battery, drug and gun charges, and escape helped build a Wal-Mart distribution center in Wisconsin in 2005, until community uproar halted the program. (Company policy says, “Forced or prison labor will not be tolerated by Wal-Mart.”)
On call: Its inmate call centers are the “best kept secret in outsourcing,” Unicor boasts. In 1994, a contractor for gop congressional hopeful Jack Metcalf hired Washington state prisoners to call and remind voters he was pro-death penalty. Metcalf, who prevailed, said he never knew.
Federal Prison Industries, a.k.a. Unicor, says that in addition to soldiers’ uniforms, bedding, shoes, helmets, and flak vests, inmates have “produced missile cables (including those used on the Patriot missiles during the Gulf War)” and “wiring harnesses for jets and tanks.” In 1997, according to Prison Legal News, Boeing subcontractor MicroJet had prisoners cutting airplane components, paying $7 an hour for work that paid union wages of $30 on the outside.
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A lot of exciting changes are going on in your life - can you feel it? The August 10th full moon’s sun is in Leo and moon is in Aquarius. Right now is the jumping point for your heart’s desires. This means we will be stepping away from what we no longer desire and stepping towards what we do...
There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
Roberto Bolaño, The Savage Detectives (via observando)
It's powerful.It's saturating yet cleansing. It's weighty but gentle and delicate. Very concentrated. It's secure in the way it envelopes me. Distinct. 🌊
Des
"The problem with not taking relationships seriously if they don’t feel like "Mr. Right" is this: Every once in a while, Mr. Right gets here—he sometimes even appears as Mr. Wrong transformed—but we blow it because we’re not in practice.
He’s here, but we’re not ready. We haven’t been working on ourselves.
We sometimes fail to work on ourselves in the relationships right in front of us, thinking that “real life” begins when they get here.
This is just a ploy of the EGO once again, making sure that we’ll seek but NOT find.”
