Spirituality Revealed

Ocd made me weak, I stay home most of my times , I go out only, when it, important I have negative thoughts
I grow up with ocd, I love my family, and my friends
I hate being alone with panic attack chist pain and back pain

This man breaks things down in one of the most calming soothing manner. He also possess one of the coolest laughs I’ve ever heard.

thank you Eckhart for bringing clarity in life,or at least pointing at it.I know you aint reading this but i express my gratitude.

Here's a break down of steps based on what he says/asks in his video and how I use them. 1) If there's fear, you direct your attention to it and acknowledge that it's there – been trying that, and it gets so intense that I can't step out. 2) Are there any thoughts producing the fear? Yes, I feel this feeling I'm going to go crazy, lose my mind. An intense feeling comes over my mind/head and I start telling myself the story that I'm scared, going to lose it, die perhaps. That makes me panic, but not in a physical heart/breath way. I panic in my mind that my mind is losing it, going to lose control, shut down, die. It's hard to explain. Then he says 3) How do you tackle the thoughts? – He says to realize the futility and destructive nature of these thoughts. I absolutely know these thoughts are both futile and destructive, but my mind still feels it's going to go to some state of psychosis and it seems my fear cannot do anything but grow. So I know it's futile, not helping, destructive, but when it feels it's really happening (or going to happen), I believe it so much I can't step out (as he puts it). 4) So he says to "choose to step out" by first, not believing your mind that you cannot step out then 2) taking a conscious breath and/or focusing on inner energy. I try to step out, but it's too intense. So there's a part of me that says "this is just anxiety" and not real, but the other part of me that because I actually believe I'm close to going into psychosis, I guess I am believing my mind's story…… Now sidenote: I have felt minor relief at very brief moments where deep breathing, focusing on present moment seemed to, even if for a moment cause a tiny relief from the above mentioned fear of psychosis/going crazy. Like perhaps for a brief moment I convince myself I'm not going to go into psychosis/go crazy (just saying that makes me sad that I actually believe it). But those moments are for a second or two. I'm functioning, but getting out of bed, going to work (own a company with employees), taking kids to sports events, going places, all at some point scare me. I'm just getting through every day and I cannot live like this. As I asked in previous message, I wonder if anybody here was ever diagnosed with actual anxiety "disorder" and this helped them come out of it, or at the least live a much more peaceful life if not fully healed…. Much love, mike, 41 from Canada

This video is medicine

Hi everybody. My name is Simon. I would like to share this story with you in an attempt to maybe get som tips or advice or anything at all really. I’m 24 years old. When I was 17 I developed an extreme form of OCD. I could not leave my room without plastic bags om my feet and my bed was like a desserted Island surrounded by trash from the floor all the way up to the madrass. I managed, however, with the help of medications and therapy to get it to a liveable level. I tell you this not to further identify with my past but to give you some information about my history of mental illness.

But I had a fighting spirit. My favorite movie since childhood was Rocky and I always found myself identifying and relating to the underdogs. I ran my first Marathon two years ago. In heinsight it was probably in an attempt to stand out from others. This year my egoic endeavours reached it’s height. I went to China to run a marathon on the Great Wall, thinking it would make me feel better about myself. When I got home I felt completely empty. It only took a couple of months before I had my eyes locked on something else. I was going to Iceland for a month without my cellphone. My idea was to not distract myself from myself. An Idea much more romantic in theory than in practice. Haha.

Before going I had an idea of what the trip was going to be. I was going to photograph, write, read and run. I had seen a couple of Eckhart’s videos before going and asked the employe at the bookshop if they hade any books of him. She brought me The Power Of Now.

About twenty days into my Iceland trip I fell into a very dark hole. I was pinned down by my mind and there was no escape. I had already read the book once by then but felt so exposed that I hid it in order not to get reminded of it. When I fell into the hole I decided to read it again. It really helped me through a rough time.

When I got home I bought and read A New Earth aswell.

It helped me dissolve past guilt and resentment. But now I’m experiencing pretty extreme existential anxiety. Everything is so alive. I feel almost too aware. The colors, the sounds, everything is crystal clear. Disidentifying from my thoughts has made me feel completely lost. I am feeling overwhelmed in a way that is hard to describe.

I want to add that I currently don’t have a job to go, I study math twice a week (which Im having difficulties focusing on because of this), and try to excercise but other than that I have no distractions. I realize how important it is to have a regular activity to go to, but now it feels hard to get one.

I don’t know what I want with writing this. I think I just had to write it down. Perhaps if any of you have had a similiar initial experience of extreme overwhelm after a spiritual realization, you could let me know what helped you handle it.

Thank you all for reading this.

Simon.

I believe everyone of us suffer from anxiety on some level. I’d like to think it’d be abnormal to be totally anxiety free. However It only depends on us how much we let it cripple us.
For some it becomes a habit and then the spiral starts.

Great video!

On a side note thats a nice color, it matches you 🙂

Love and light to all ✨ 💜

I really needed to hear this. Bless you Ekhart. You're just simply an angel.

He is the Gift for humanity