It can easily become a compulsion, especially if you're engaging in thought patterns like: "If I just get the right balance of vitamins, then I'll solve this," or "I'm going to have a bad day if I don't take my vitamins," etc. Recovery is all about cutting out compulsions and research shows that balanced, healthy eating can help people make healthy decisions to cut out compulsions, so I would focus on healthy eating so you have the energy to make healthy decisions and eliminate compulsions.
Fishing. I go fishing, by myself turn off my ringer, ( gotta photo the skies and fish if I’m lucky ) and I usually stay tangled up .... but it’s about knowing exactly where I’m going getting there. Throwing my line in the water ( or 2 ) and I breathe. Soak up the view, ask myself a few questions, give myself options, throw it all away in the air, water.... and leave it. I’m not quite sure I knew what I was doing at first but I’ve learned over the past 3 1/2 years. I did exactly what my body n mind told me to do. Finding peace. It can be done in so many more ways than one. Find peace in what you love and date it. Have a date with yourself for at least 15-30 min a day. Best I know how to describe it. Keep up the videos . First one I saw that wasn’t just laying down or sitting to meditate. Pretty cool I don’t feel so weird now🙋🏼♀️
It sounds like you know what to do! It's great that you can see how anxiety is affecting your running routes. Anxiety really infiltrated everything about my exercise routine in the past so workouts became a great way to expose myself to those anxieties and learn how to not react to them. I hope you have some very meditative runs ahead!
Thanks for making these videos, they are very helpful. I'm trying to learn walking mindfulness, because I have been struggling with anxiety, depression and panic disorder for long time and I hardly leave my house. I want to be more active by slowly starting to walk more, but sometimes my mind is just worrying when I walk, so I hope this video helps
Bringing your awareness to your breath and your feet on the ground can be more enjoyable than focusing your awareness on lots of worries and fears, but I'd also recommend watching the other videos in my channel on cutting out compulsions. There are many changes you can make to support overcoming challenges. Enjoy the journey!
Mark, thanks for the tips. I'm practicing walking, sitting, and eating meditation for 1 1/2 hour in the morning and the same before bed. Trying to incorporate it in my daily life, as well. Can't leave my apartment, but for brief periods. It seems to get my mind off that "AGENDA" where the OCD-which Always tells me that it's ME, and that there is some reason/thing I need to "Fix/think thru"...and that Rite after that, I will be happy...but I never am. It's a "Lie", cause it never lets me go. than
You're welcome! Ruminating about ruminating about ruminating is tricky. But you're definitely right that stopping anything that feeds the OCD is going to get things moving in a better direction. That journey takes time so I hope you find it interesting and can accept the ups and downs. :)
You are so helpful! I’m finding response prevention is stressful at first but it gets easier and easier. If I have a bad thought, like if I don’t do this ritual to get rid of the thought someone will die, I am now mostly able to recognize that as OCD and its lies and stick it up as a cloud that is just gone then. No ritual. Very stressful at first but I find fewer and fewer of those thoughts coming through as threatening the more I do this. 😊
Walking Meditation is something I do a great deal of and find really helpful to work through the daily stress, before the anxiety creeps in. Great video and very helpful :)
Thanks for the tips! I really wished you wouldve uploaded the video where you were walking even if you had some minor difficulty. lol. Thanks once again.
thank you so much!!! this is so helpful. your videos have been helping me more thank you know, it's amazing. I wish more people understood and talked about anxiety OCD the way you do. You've made things A LOT clearer for me. I especially like the tip about breathing into things around you, I never thought of it that way, and I think thats such a great idea
Thanks for talking more about ruminating, Mark! That's my worse compulsion and my hardest to break. The more tips I can have the better. I've even found myself ruminating about ruminating and I know the quicker I can stop ruminating about anything that feeds my OCD, the better I'll be.
I have another tip : There are very subtle injections of your thoughts, almost preverbal, which comment on your feelings and emotions on the spot, live. IF you spot them you will see that they say "This emotion means x. X is bad. So change it." I sometimes find myself walking to the bathroom mirror to look into it even though I hadn't intended to. But if you look closely there likely had been a preceding little simulus of thought which said "This feeling is bad, get rid of it". Also Buddhists stress the importance of not seeing emotions and thoughts as one. They are influencing each other, but emotions do not express directly what thoughts make of it . Much of it is conjecture that feels like it's telling the truth but isn't.
I learned how my compulsive thoughts were causing my SA on lsd. not the best trip. I've made insane progress since that event 6 weeks ago. I have been learning alot of act and really wish I would have found thess videos and other related materials years ago.
Mark, I really appreciate you sharing you're experiences. I've been to Psychiatrists/pshychologists, on All types of Meds, with no relief...prozac, buspar, risperdal, stelazine, tranquilizers. Been in CBT theray for about 6 months with an OCD specialist, and getting some Progress. Those Urges "Creep" in on me, Constantly, and it's hard to write them All down for my Therapist. If I stay on the computer, too long, I get LOST in OCD land/Torture. Frustrated trying to explain it to my family. thanks
Awesome video Mark!! I have severe OCD/Crippling...and notice that "Practicing Mindfulness" gets my Brain off the "OCD Path" where I am so Depressed, and in such Pain that for months I can't get off my sofa, and just wanna end it all. 45 years of my OCD telling me it's just this "Last thing you gotta work on/fix/think thru". It feels like I'm getting "Stung by Jellyfish and taken into this HELLHOLE", where my brain is FROZEN IN SHOCK/HORROR. Never any peace or happiness, just misery. Thank you.
I noticed when i leave house to walk or see other people, my anxiety becomes worse and i can't really focus on what people say or on where i walk. why is that.
@@billalchikhaoui6755 hi billal, when i had this problem i could not go outside alone. I couldn't drive alone. I felt like i was going to go crazy or faint in the middle of the store or run around screaming. What you need to do is. Take your time. YOU ARE IN CONTROL! Just go out and walk. When you feel like the anxiety is coming just turn around and walk back home. nothing NOTHING will happen to you. You are ok. Nobody has ever died from anxiety. Youre not going to get a heart attack. Youre not going to have a seizure. You are ok! Just keep in mind you have control to leave the place whenever you want. For example im in the store. There is a Loooong line.. its ok. I will wait and just look at the magazine covers. But my anxiety is running wild. Ok i will return later. Put the stuff back or on the side and walk back home. Deep breaths 4 seconds in 7 seconds out. Practice my friend. Life is VERY good. You will win!
Keiko Herskovitz Accepting does not mean ignoring. But anxiety also can't from something outside of us. If you're struggling with compulsions related to these anxieties, I'd recommend speaking to a professional that can help you understand them better.
Nice but my fear IS outside by walking, i fear to step in some kind of harmfull stuff on the ground, things I cant recognise I start to wonder If it could be harmfull, love to walk though , any suggestions?
Avoiding going for a walk is just a compulsion that will make things worse. It's entirely possible to get over these types of challenges but you don't do that by putting the fear in charge of your actions and avoiding walking. If you can access a therapist or a workbook, those could be great ways to learn about compulsions and how to start cutting them out.
Interesting. When I run, my routes tend to be dictated by anxiety. It's not always the same places, but sometimes some places just feel bad or I get anxious of thinking going down one street/route/past something. I've run a mile more just because the shorter, more direct route felt more anxiety provoking and that extra mile felt easier than that shorter way. I get what you mean though. When I face those routes...which has turned into like, all of them now anyways, ha. cont....
I struggled with that as well. The skills I talk about on this channel apply to feelings and thoughts like that, too. Here's a video all about it: ruclips.net/video/2wmANwI8PIw/видео.html
I am searching for a meditation that can help me when I go outside. I panic often when out of my safe environment. I talk walks around my house now for 10 minutes and I panic when I don't see my house. Does anyone know of a guided thing for that?
That's great you're taking walks and showing the brain you're in charge! I wouldn't look for a meditation there. Although that might seem like it would help, when cutting out compulsions, I found it more helpful to want to feel those unsafe feelings. I want to lose sight of my house and learn how to handle those feelings without doing compulsions to judge and control and avoid experiences. In Acceptance & Commitment Therapy, we like to say that "the solution IS the problem". It helped me to understand that searching for a way to fix and control feelings IS what fueled the feelings I hated.
Inner peace is to accept the reality as it is without making judgments. Thanks for this video.
It can easily become a compulsion, especially if you're engaging in thought patterns like: "If I just get the right balance of vitamins, then I'll solve this," or "I'm going to have a bad day if I don't take my vitamins," etc. Recovery is all about cutting out compulsions and research shows that balanced, healthy eating can help people make healthy decisions to cut out compulsions, so I would focus on healthy eating so you have the energy to make healthy decisions and eliminate compulsions.
Most effective in rain for me, cause it relaxes me sooo much
No problem. Matt's practically the same name. Keep pushing with overcoming the OCD issues. It really is overcomeable!
great video Mark you are so inspiring and my goal in life is to be like you I want to help people to be better just like you are helping me
Fishing. I go fishing, by myself turn off my ringer, ( gotta photo the skies and fish if I’m lucky ) and I usually stay tangled up .... but it’s about knowing exactly where I’m going getting there. Throwing my line in the water ( or 2 ) and I breathe. Soak up the view, ask myself a few questions, give myself options, throw it all away in the air, water.... and leave it. I’m not quite sure I knew what I was doing at first but I’ve learned over the past 3 1/2 years. I did exactly what my body n mind told me to do. Finding peace. It can be done in so many more ways than one. Find peace in what you love and date it. Have a date with yourself for at least 15-30 min a day. Best I know how to describe it. Keep up the videos . First one I saw that wasn’t just laying down or sitting to meditate. Pretty cool I don’t feel so weird now🙋🏼♀️
Thanks! I'm glad the videos are helpful. All the best on your journey up and over these compulsions.
It sounds like you know what to do! It's great that you can see how anxiety is affecting your running routes. Anxiety really infiltrated everything about my exercise routine in the past so workouts became a great way to expose myself to those anxieties and learn how to not react to them. I hope you have some very meditative runs ahead!
Thank you for these videos Matt. They give me hope that I will overcome my OCD issues.
Thanks for making these videos, they are very helpful. I'm trying to learn walking mindfulness, because I have been struggling with anxiety, depression and panic disorder for long time and I hardly leave my house. I want to be more active by slowly starting to walk more, but sometimes my mind is just worrying when I walk, so I hope this video helps
Bringing your awareness to your breath and your feet on the ground can be more enjoyable than focusing your awareness on lots of worries and fears, but I'd also recommend watching the other videos in my channel on cutting out compulsions. There are many changes you can make to support overcoming challenges. Enjoy the journey!
***** Thanks, I will check out those other videos.
Mark, thanks for the tips. I'm practicing walking, sitting, and eating meditation for 1 1/2 hour in the morning and the same before bed. Trying to incorporate it in my daily life, as well. Can't leave my apartment, but for brief periods. It seems to get my mind off that "AGENDA" where the OCD-which Always tells me that it's ME, and that there is some reason/thing I need to "Fix/think thru"...and that Rite after that, I will be happy...but I never am. It's a "Lie", cause it never lets me go. than
You're welcome! Ruminating about ruminating about ruminating is tricky. But you're definitely right that stopping anything that feeds the OCD is going to get things moving in a better direction. That journey takes time so I hope you find it interesting and can accept the ups and downs. :)
You are so helpful! I’m finding response prevention is stressful at first but it gets easier and easier. If I have a bad thought, like if I don’t do this ritual to get rid of the thought someone will die, I am now mostly able to recognize that as OCD and its lies and stick it up as a cloud that is just gone then. No ritual. Very stressful at first but I find fewer and fewer of those thoughts coming through as threatening the more I do this. 😊
Keep up the intense work!
Thanks Mark. Another great video. Look forward to your chats with us (and you're easy on the eyes ;)
Walking Meditation is something I do a great deal of and find really helpful to work through the daily stress, before the anxiety creeps in. Great video and very helpful :)
Thank you for inspiration! I'm struggling with agoraphobia, but after watching this I'm looking forward to go outside and try walking meditation :)
Enjoy the mindful walking!
Thanks for the tips! I really wished you wouldve uploaded the video where you were walking even if you had some minor difficulty. lol. Thanks once again.
You're welcome. I'll try some other meditation videos in the future that can hopefully be of use. Happy walking!
thank you so much!!! this is so helpful. your videos have been helping me more thank you know, it's amazing. I wish more people understood and talked about anxiety OCD the way you do. You've made things A LOT clearer for me.
I especially like the tip about breathing into things around you, I never thought of it that way, and I think thats such a great idea
Thanks, Xanthi! Enjoy the steps and the breathing :)
Thanks for talking more about ruminating, Mark! That's my worse compulsion and my hardest to break. The more tips I can have the better. I've even found myself ruminating about ruminating and I know the quicker I can stop ruminating about anything that feeds my OCD, the better I'll be.
I have another tip : There are very subtle injections of your thoughts, almost preverbal, which comment on your feelings and emotions on the spot, live. IF you spot them you will see that they say "This emotion means x. X is bad. So change it."
I sometimes find myself walking to the bathroom mirror to look into it even though I hadn't intended to. But if you look closely there likely had been a preceding little simulus of thought which said "This feeling is bad, get rid of it". Also Buddhists stress the importance of not seeing emotions and thoughts as one. They are influencing each other, but emotions do not express directly what thoughts make of it . Much of it is conjecture that feels like it's telling the truth but isn't.
Thanks, Heather. Happy walking!
I learned how my compulsive thoughts were causing my SA on lsd. not the best trip. I've made insane progress since that event 6 weeks ago. I have been learning alot of act and really wish I would have found thess videos and other related materials years ago.
Mark, I really appreciate you sharing you're experiences. I've been to Psychiatrists/pshychologists, on All types of Meds, with no relief...prozac, buspar, risperdal, stelazine, tranquilizers. Been in CBT theray for about 6 months with an OCD specialist, and getting some Progress. Those Urges "Creep" in on me, Constantly, and it's hard to write them All down for my Therapist. If I stay on the computer, too long, I get LOST in OCD land/Torture. Frustrated trying to explain it to my family. thanks
Awesome video Mark!! I have severe OCD/Crippling...and notice that "Practicing Mindfulness" gets my Brain off the "OCD Path" where I am so Depressed, and in such Pain that for months I can't get off my sofa, and just wanna end it all. 45 years of my OCD telling me it's just this "Last thing you gotta work on/fix/think thru". It feels like I'm getting "Stung by Jellyfish and taken into this HELLHOLE", where my brain is FROZEN IN SHOCK/HORROR. Never any peace or happiness, just misery. Thank you.
I noticed when i leave house to walk or see other people, my anxiety becomes worse and i can't really focus on what people say or on where i walk. why is that.
How are you now? Are you doing better?
@@thecollector8737 i have the same problem , if u solved it plz tell me how plz i rly need to know bcz it's getting worse
@@billalchikhaoui6755 hi billal, when i had this problem i could not go outside alone. I couldn't drive alone. I felt like i was going to go crazy or faint in the middle of the store or run around screaming. What you need to do is. Take your time. YOU ARE IN CONTROL! Just go out and walk. When you feel like the anxiety is coming just turn around and walk back home. nothing NOTHING will happen to you. You are ok. Nobody has ever died from anxiety. Youre not going to get a heart attack. Youre not going to have a seizure. You are ok!
Just keep in mind you have control to leave the place whenever you want.
For example im in the store. There is a Loooong line.. its ok. I will wait and just look at the magazine covers. But my anxiety is running wild. Ok i will return later. Put the stuff back or on the side and walk back home. Deep breaths 4 seconds in 7 seconds out. Practice my friend. Life is VERY good. You will win!
@@thecollector8737 ty brother that helped alot i appreciate it
@@billalchikhaoui6755 follow Ali greymond she is a great speaker also. Daily advice in short videos
Hi Mark, I remember you said you had an amazing therapist you did ERP with. Can you and he/she recommend someone in NYC? Thank you!
I also have OCD; with my main compulsion being ruminating. Is that the case for you as well?
Awesome.
Thanks, Zach!
You sound fantastic at reduced RUclips speed (.75).
My anxiety come from animsl abuse in wild and farm. Accepting such world means ignoring animal'swhat pain?
Keiko Herskovitz Accepting does not mean ignoring. But anxiety also can't from something outside of us. If you're struggling with compulsions related to these anxieties, I'd recommend speaking to a professional that can help you understand them better.
Nice but my fear IS outside by walking, i fear to step in some kind of harmfull stuff on the ground, things I cant recognise I start to wonder If it could be harmfull, love to walk though , any suggestions?
Avoiding going for a walk is just a compulsion that will make things worse. It's entirely possible to get over these types of challenges but you don't do that by putting the fear in charge of your actions and avoiding walking. If you can access a therapist or a workbook, those could be great ways to learn about compulsions and how to start cutting them out.
Interesting. When I run, my routes tend to be dictated by anxiety. It's not always the same places, but sometimes some places just feel bad or I get anxious of thinking going down one street/route/past something. I've run a mile more just because the shorter, more direct route felt more anxiety provoking and that extra mile felt easier than that shorter way. I get what you mean though. When I face those routes...which has turned into like, all of them now anyways, ha. cont....
How can I stop thinking people are watching me and always feeling like I’m walking weirdly - also feeling like people notice it .
I struggled with that as well. The skills I talk about on this channel apply to feelings and thoughts like that, too. Here's a video all about it: ruclips.net/video/2wmANwI8PIw/видео.html
I just have to breathe through it and just accept what's there. It's actually not that bad. Even if my brain thinks so.
On the verge of panic tryin to walk it off
Sorry, I meant Mark not Matt
You might like reading works by Thich Nhat Hanh
Tyler L I do. His work is great!
this guy is too disgustingly happy...meditation must be working....
I couldn't even finish watching the whole video ..
Obeijin Why?
I don't know...I was a different person two months ago ...
I am searching for a meditation that can help me when I go outside. I panic often when out of my safe environment. I talk walks around my house now for 10 minutes and I panic when I don't see my house. Does anyone know of a guided thing for that?
That's great you're taking walks and showing the brain you're in charge! I wouldn't look for a meditation there. Although that might seem like it would help, when cutting out compulsions, I found it more helpful to want to feel those unsafe feelings. I want to lose sight of my house and learn how to handle those feelings without doing compulsions to judge and control and avoid experiences. In Acceptance & Commitment Therapy, we like to say that "the solution IS the problem". It helped me to understand that searching for a way to fix and control feelings IS what fueled the feelings I hated.
I have depersonalization how the hell do I get rid of it I believe my ocd and ruminating is what is keeping it alive...
Could it be a gift to be unwrapped ????