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Searching for tips and methods to deal with stress 22 May 2019 07:38 #341358

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Stress and anxiety are very big issues for me, and the main causes for me to fall.
Especially because I have a very difficult relationship with my mother, and when she speaks to me with hurtful words that break me, it becomes the highway to hell...
(She lives alone and I am his only son. My father is dead since many years. It could take many and many pages to write this story, perhaps I will do it here one day...)

It's better than when I was younger, but it can be difficult sometimes to deal with these emotions. Sometimes, they invade me.

I also try to stop be worried about the events of the life, and taking things one by one. This helps but only at a certain limit...

Do you have some tools or tips to help ?
I am starting to read Rav Fanger's book about FHT method, do you heard about it ?

Thank you

Re: Searching for tips and methods to deal with stress 24 May 2019 03:32 #341406

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There are ways to deal with stress...and I understand how criticisms from close relatives can hurt you and make you think you need porn to help you...as an antidote to the emotional pain.

I recommend above all else - Mindfulness.

www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/beyond-self-destructive-behavior/201601/mindfulness-in-the-treatment-self-destructive-behavior

I also recommend 

Walking
Talking to Hashem
Reading a book that you enjoy
Creative writing
Playing a musical instrument
Meeting friends
Painting/drawing/fixing something around the house

Re: Searching for tips and methods to deal with stress 24 May 2019 03:51 #341407

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Colincolin you beat me to it. 
I’m sorry to hear about your situation. I know for me and plenty others mindfulness can be a game changer, it helps with stress, anxiety, and best of all ( at least for me) is it teaches you that your emotions and feelings aren’t you and don’t define you.
Theres this book called “finding peace in a frantic world” which is a 8 week mindfulness program and comes with 8 mindfulness meditations to go along with the program. 
Let me hear what you decide to do.
Hatzlacha!!

Re: Searching for tips and methods to deal with stress 27 May 2019 07:25 #341460

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Thanks for your answers !
I heard a much about mindfulness from a partner.

I tried to meditate, but after 3 or 4 minutes, I was feeling very unpleasant feelings like all my body was charged with electricity, and bizarre thoughts coming and coming... And then, all I could do was to stand up and stop.
I am not sure about to try it again, and I wonder if this reaction was normal.

Perhaps, I have to start it more progressively ?

And also, talking, reading are efficient, but in my case, only if yhe stress is not too high. Otherwise, the stress persists...

Re: Searching for tips and methods to deal with stress 27 May 2019 11:33 #341466

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Stress is a killer. I used to masturbate 3 times a day from it.......  I found therapy very helpful. In the beginning I also was given a low dose anti anxiety medication to give therapy a chance to be heard and internalized. Until I climbed out of deep stress I never knew that some people are actually calm....  Hatzlocha!
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Re: Searching for tips and methods to deal with stress 27 May 2019 18:27 #341475

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Everybody reacts differently to meditation. I’m not an expert but maybe it’s because you were fighting these thoughts and feelings as opposed to just letting them be. I would advise to google around and see if anyone else experienced it like that and see how you could go about this.

Re: Searching for tips and methods to deal with stress 28 May 2019 01:03 #341487

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Mindfulness and meditation are not the same thing.

Kosher Jewish Meditation from a Chabad man named Gutman Locks can be found by searching for "Jewish Meditation explained" or searching his Mystical Paths website.
Last Edit: 28 May 2019 01:04 by colincolin.

Re: Searching for tips and methods to deal with stress 28 May 2019 14:41 #341499

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Thanks for your answers, I will take a look

I think I am not the first to have a such displeasant réaction to meditation. It's also so opposite to my nature to let the things go by themselves (I always want to control anything, like many of us I suppose...), so this could explain my reaction
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