Techniques for changing fear based mindset

Okay..somebody told me about this exercise. The four box breathing exercise. I havent tried it myself. It will not get stuck energy out of your body like the watertank exercise, but maybe it is worth trying www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZzhk9jEkkI

Peter Levine also has a cd with exercises, that comes with one of his books (I can´t remember wich one)

brokenbiscuit - I have quite a lot of experience with mindfulness, as a major research participant and as a teacher-trainee.
There are lots of free mindfulness mp3s available if you google.

And as anne12 says Peter Levine - who you can also youtube for mindfulness and TRE (Trauma Release Exercises), which are very good too.

Yes, Michael Sealey is very calming.

Hello - strangely enough this is something I have been playing with alot recently. Absolutely - that being able to detach from the reaction and watch as a dispassionate observer is the path to freedom.

I have practiced meditation for a very long time and it's been incredibly life enhancing. One of my favourites in the relational sphere is Tara Brach - she's a very eloquent and compassionate teacher as well as being a psychologist. Part of the healing process is the recognition that we all suffer in this way, we're not alone with some kind of wierd problem, the kind of difficulties we face are universal and one of the reasons that this board is so helpful is that it allows us to recognise this, be vulnerable (something I have really struggled with) and with the vulnerability, begin to actually face what's in front of us and therefore to heal.

It is helpful to have supportive and wise friends in all of this and I hope we can be that for you and vice versa!

The link below is one of my favourites and might be something that resonates with you - if you don't have time for the whole thing, you can click on the link to the meditation.

www.tarabrach.com/saying-yes-meeting-edge-softening/

Thanks for your posts on here - I love your sense of humour in the midst of dark depths. I am not sure if this is a FA thing but I often bring lightness to moments of great seriousness too - maybe it's yet another way of avoiding feelingness - or maybe it's just us!

I've always used humour as a way to get people to like me. Maybe that's part of the low self esteem thing. My first ever therapy session I spent 30 minutes just trying to make her laugh. She looked at me like I was mentally ill, and she was right!