Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 3:37 pm
No matter how bad anxiety and depression has gotten for myself, I've realized there was always 1 particular thing that would make me feel good when I did it. I really really enjoy singing!
Singing has always been something I liked to do. Actually I would sing wherever I was and whoever was around...Until I moved away and people started to make fun of me. They started to make fun of me for another reason but after they started to target me...they would make fun of any aspect of me...including singing and so I didn't do it infront of people....but i still sung. I Had created in myself the idea that expressing myself was a very bad thing and ment alot of pain...but I never completely stopped singing.
About 2-3 years ago, I went to a karaoke place and I sang infront of people for the first time (well for the first time deliberately). I was a little scared but I was singing with someone else and it made it easier. It felt so wonderful that I could do that infront of others. I honestly feel great when I do it when i'm in the house by myself. I can be very expressive and as loud as I want. It can lessen my stress and my anxiety and even my depression.
With anxiety we tend to link many things to it...we link up fear with anxiety and then fear becomes linked up to anything else that we link anxiety to. Many things become scary and difficult to handle...even if they are seen as very easy to do things by the average person. We can use this idea of linking to our advantage. I'm actually learning this stuff from a diffrent source which doesn't really matter where it is. I'd like to share this stuff with you guys without worrying where it comes from.
If you can spend some time doing that 1 thing that can make you more positive...that thing you felt good doing when you were even a kid...You can put yourself in a state where you're open to link things to this positive state.
What is your ultimate Pleasure? Do you have something that makes you happy when you do it?
Mike
Singing has always been something I liked to do. Actually I would sing wherever I was and whoever was around...Until I moved away and people started to make fun of me. They started to make fun of me for another reason but after they started to target me...they would make fun of any aspect of me...including singing and so I didn't do it infront of people....but i still sung. I Had created in myself the idea that expressing myself was a very bad thing and ment alot of pain...but I never completely stopped singing.
About 2-3 years ago, I went to a karaoke place and I sang infront of people for the first time (well for the first time deliberately). I was a little scared but I was singing with someone else and it made it easier. It felt so wonderful that I could do that infront of others. I honestly feel great when I do it when i'm in the house by myself. I can be very expressive and as loud as I want. It can lessen my stress and my anxiety and even my depression.
With anxiety we tend to link many things to it...we link up fear with anxiety and then fear becomes linked up to anything else that we link anxiety to. Many things become scary and difficult to handle...even if they are seen as very easy to do things by the average person. We can use this idea of linking to our advantage. I'm actually learning this stuff from a diffrent source which doesn't really matter where it is. I'd like to share this stuff with you guys without worrying where it comes from.
If you can spend some time doing that 1 thing that can make you more positive...that thing you felt good doing when you were even a kid...You can put yourself in a state where you're open to link things to this positive state.
What is your ultimate Pleasure? Do you have something that makes you happy when you do it?
Mike
