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Stuff that's supposed to help...
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sabbath92003
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It's focusing on what's going on around you instead of within you. Observing rather than thinking. Sometimes called mindfulness. It's used in meditation. But you don't have to be meditating to do it. We use it in ACT to distance ourselves from our thoughts.
kayelle
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Yeah I've kind of actually learned to do that. It's just not obsessing CONSTANTLY about things in the future that may not happen.
If I'm in a lecture in college, I usually find myself freaking myself out. Wondering how far I am from the car, what everyone would think if I left the lecture, worrying that I shouldn't go out because then I'd miss the lecture, not wanting to feel that panic and that need to run to the car.....GAAAAH!
So I tell myself 'I am present'. I am not panicking RIGHT NOW and that is good. I feel ok now except for the fact that I'm talking myself into a panic. So if I just talk myself into a calm state instead I can continue feeling good and now panicking. I guess that's what I'd call living in the moment.
If I'm in a lecture in college, I usually find myself freaking myself out. Wondering how far I am from the car, what everyone would think if I left the lecture, worrying that I shouldn't go out because then I'd miss the lecture, not wanting to feel that panic and that need to run to the car.....GAAAAH!
So I tell myself 'I am present'. I am not panicking RIGHT NOW and that is good. I feel ok now except for the fact that I'm talking myself into a panic. So if I just talk myself into a calm state instead I can continue feeling good and now panicking. I guess that's what I'd call living in the moment.