Dissolving Stress and Anxiety

I have started a bunch of blog entries and just found them too large to fit into about a page due either to the topic's complexity or my inability to succinctly articulate the ideas in writing... so I will keep trying. Eventually I will end up with some material worth posting that is not so long an cumbersome as to put anyone to sleep.

Meanwhile, expanding on my meditation topic might be a good idea to continue with for now.

I have managed to keep the meditation up almost daily, missing a day or two here and there as the odd time my schedule gets in the road. I do consider it a habit now and it is something that I look forward to as it completes my day even before my day begins. Although I have been enjoying that still time in in the pre-dawn while the house is quiet it is something else to have a particular plan and to execute that plan every time.

During my meditations I have been experimenting with relaxation, posture, breathing, focus, un-focus and various other aspects of meditation. The interesting part is that some of these "new to me" things (not that I thought for even a moment that I was breaking ground) I read about shortly after "discovering" them. Others I am sure I have read sometime in the past but have long forgotten them, at least in my conscious thought.

A cool method for literally removing stress and anxiety intentionally and directly was one such example. In some places it is referred to as "clearing" and perhaps known by a few other names and not specifically associated with meditation. The simple version is that focusing on the anxiety as an inner energy, letting it flow to an external imaginary point and dissolving it, effectively removes the anxiety and it stays removed. This has worked wonders without even having to know what the anxiety was about or what it's source may have been.

I will admit that any underlying issues are not directly addressed nor are they just covered up either. Unlike  just "thinking happy thoughts" it feels more like telling my inner self that I am OK with the issue no matter what it is. The anxiety and stress over some unresolved issue only serves to keep me away from directly addressing it anyway, so eliminating the anxiety will ultimately let me at it at some future point.

Besides, I think that a lot of this negative energy is just that, negative energy for it's own sake.

I know, like any other methodology it is easy to shorten it to an almost unusable description and call it simple or easy, so I will work on the specifics another time.

Jeff.