I have a question.
What is the best course of meditation for someone that is very irritable and suffers from an anxiety disorder?
I have trouble keeping still and doing sitting meditation.
Any advice?
You can start by doing lying meditation.
A person who has anxiety order
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We'll do much better in lying meditation, much better in sitting meditation than in walking meditation, and much better in lying meditation than an ordinary person.
For most people, lying meditation will put them to sleep, but for someone with anxiety disorder, it will actually serve to balance the energy.
So if you find that, do sitting meditation for as long as you can,
And then when you are...
When you're not able to sit any longer, try to acknowledge the desire to fidget, to move.
Acknowledge the distractions in the mind.
Acknowledge the anxiety, the mental upset.
And then when it becomes overwhelming, then lie down and do lying meditation.
And just the same, rising, falling.
watching the stomach just the same you can lie on your back and so on but really if you're really serious about meditation no matter what your condition is the best advice one can give is to go and do a meditation course because most of the conditions we have are
Or the most important conditions to do away with are the ones on the surface.
The conditions like anxiety may be with you for a long time.
Even after you do several meditation courses, all you might find is it gets weaker and weaker.
And simpler and simpler.
But the first thing is to gain the skills to learn how to deal with the anxiety and so on.
And to straighten your mind out about the anxiety, about what it is, about whose it is, in the sense of not being anybody's.
And for that you really need a meditation environment.
You need a course.
So it really doesn't matter what your condition is.
Try to find time to go and undertake a meditation course with a proficient teacher.
And the more time, the better.
A person with anxiety, the best thing is to give them a long course, because you don't want to give them deadlines, and you don't want them to be thinking about deadlines and so on.
You want to take it slow and easy.
But in the beginning, any relying meditation can be quite useful.
So I would and do recommend that for anxiety.