Ideas on change, anxiety and expanding our comfort zone

Hey holmes you want to change the thread title? I understand what you mean but I think it will be lost on most of your intended audience.

Also, what do you think of eft/tapping?

I actually have my second ever appointment with a bio-energetic therapist on Saturday, she got me into tapping. I sometimes do tapping mainly on my chest, its where I find I have the most locked up energy. I like it ok, it probably works great for some. What I'm really into these days is deep resonating sounds (om's). Elliott Hulse talks about it in the "breathe into your balls" video. It's been great for me in what he would describe as breaking up "neurotic holding patterns", allowing me to feel more grounded. Another sexy benefit is its deepening my voice 

Oh yeah that's part of the vocal training we did as well. I just call it a different name and give it a different focus.

It's interesting a lot of the guys in the community try to hate on tapping as if they're trying to say, "Yeah sorry I refuse to acknowledge my weakness/ignorance any farther!" Lol

But it's just a very powerful and absolutely mandatory practice for humans. We NEED to stay in direct mental contact with our bodies. Otherwise we lose control of it. And then this is when bodily emotions and physiological responses start existing outside our control. We become a slave to our mind's control of our bodies. General social anxiety, approach anxiety, being stifled and mentally/vocally blocked.. these are all symptoms of this extremely common affliction.

I'd be interested to hear from Infinity and Dark Rain and whatever other artists might be kicking around.. What effect does your artistic expression have on you? Do you feel more calm, grounded when you're making more art, music etc?

Any of you fuckbots have OCD or the like? Insomnia, etc. 

I have OCD.

What kind of tools do you use that allow you to feel in control? Have you done any meditation etc?

I don't know know first hand what OCD is like but it seems similar to other forms of anxiety in that your mind is trying to run a program on you, telling you a story, trying to stress you out about something that's not real.

Elliot has some awesome videos. Try rolling out the bottom of your feet with a baseball bat, it grounds the hell outta you. I also enjoy the rapid and random shaking, it really spreads out any locked up energy. 

I have OCD when it comes to keeping things clean and I live with a bunch of fucking slobs lol, it actually stresses me the fuck out. 

Making music definitely gets me into a 'flow' state, a couple of times I've spent all day working on a song and got a euphoric high off it, literally like I'd dropped molly on a couple of occasions. Never really realised you can get such a natural high from getting deeply immersed in something.

I don't know man, my OCD started whit supertitions shit. Like you shouldn't pass under stairs, don't walk through a black cat, otherwise you will have bad luck, etc.

So I think that I kind of develop my own superstitions like wash hands two times, don't touch things with the pinkie finger, etc.  YEP I KNOW... lol

My mom took me to a neurologist and I started to took 15g of clomipramina/anafranil, I think I was 15 at the time.

Then I starded to get into the pickup wolrd and discovered self actualization, I think I was 17. So that expanded my awareness about the world, and made me realize how ridiculous the beliefs I had were.

How retarded was the shit I was thinking, like WTF dude wake the fuck up *bitch slap*. 

So that superstition shit combine with the fact I was weak minded, walking through a fog of self doubt, probably because of my upbringing, was the psychological cause of my OCD.

Also the fact that I was very perfectionist and I still am, I think I got that from soccer and also from trying to gaing approval from my dad. I'm brazilian so I used to play every day, I wanted to be the best and I developed my skill to a professional level, I had a agent and was in a big team with top structure in the country, but I was underage and my dad wouldn't sign the deal because it would pass his legals "father powers" to the agent. So that high perfectionism was I factor too.

But nowadays I have no problem with OCD, I mean sometimes I still have those retarded thoghts, from some unrealistic belief, but I recognize them in a milisecond and realize the retardedness of it all. So it have no effect on me, it's under control.

I don't meditate or anything like that. I just play sports, study self actualization, do cold approuch pickup, go to college, it's pretty much a mindset thing I think. But I definitely want to start to meditate and create the habit.

It's interesting you "fixed" your OCD. I did the same thing back when I was a young kid. 7 or 8 years old 

Good job King. 

Outstanding

I don't know if you're serious or tooling me here, maybe both. lol 

He also killed him a bear when he was only three. He's the Davy Crockett of self development lol

Oops no ball busting, I forgot lol

Babywhore 

Lol I'll do a quick write-up on it later today.

Solid post. Bump