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meditation for cconfidence and happiness

  • 30-08-2009 6:55pm
    #1
    LegacyUser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,012 ✭✭✭✭


    Hi,
    Just wondering has anyone here any experience with meditation?

    In the past few years my confidence has came and went. I now seem to be getting worse. Sometimes I get nervous quite easily for no reason. Other days when I am in a good mood I can be beaming with confidence. Over the past year I seem to be in a constant battle with quite mild depression, melancholy and sometimes mild anxiety. I say "mild" because when I read people with serious depression or anxiety I know mine isnt nearly as bad.

    I was never like this when I was younger. Granted I was kinda the shyer of the kids alright,and I was a bit of a late bloomer with women etc. But I have now reached my mid 20s and seem to be in a battle against my brain for happiness and confidence.
    I am a normal guy with plenty of friends, good family etc and theyd be probably shocked reading something like this.

    I would like to try meditation but would love to hear peoples first hand opinions on it first. I dont want to expect too much from it but I would love to see results from it at the same time.
    I now go to the gym, go running and have started improving my diet, I really dont think im ready to go to a councillor yet, and besides I cant afford it.

    Im just getting tired of trivial things becoming big things in my head. I have avoided potential situations that would get me on dates with girls recently because of fear of me being too nervous. Avoiding things like this is becoming more common. I wanted a day off work recently , it was for no reason to be honest , just a nice Monday off. I actually chickened out of asking. WTF was the big deal? I really dont know. I just ignored the fact that I had to do it, and so didnt bother asking in the end.

    Cheers


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  • #2
    Kevster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,980 ✭✭✭Kevster


    Hi, I was just scanning through old posts making sure that no-one's went unanswered, and then found this one. I will keep this brief, but if you want to get into meditation, then do it. In fact, getting into a habit of trying new things is a fantastic thing. Here's a success story for you:

    My brother began meditating around 6 years ago, and then eventually started doing yoga. In Trinity college, he started going to [yoga] classes and got on well with the teachers there. Eventually, he became a teacher himself and then went on yoga retreats - first in Ireland - but then on one to Austria. In Austria, he met a girl from England, and - fast forwarding to the present - he married her just last Monday.

    ... ...oh, and I bought my first 'Sister-in-law' card today!

    Kevin


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