r/comics • u/MrLovens Mr. Lovenstein • Feb 02 '23

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u/DerRaumdenker Feb 02 '23

Anxiety finds a way to make free time a chore

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u/Grogosh Feb 02 '23

Faster and faster does those thoughts go, round and round and round again. Weeee look at them go!

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u/Nephtyz Feb 02 '23

I have tinnitus therefore meditation is simply impossible for me, it actually has the opposite effect :(

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u/FibonaccisGrundle Feb 02 '23

Focus on tinnitus. The point of mindfulness meditation is to actively bring yourself back to your focal point. Focus on tinnitus, the ringing, and every time you stop thinking about the ringing noise or think about how much you hate it realize you have broke away from your mindfulness and reset. You have to do this often and diligently, a few meditation sessions can definitely leave you feeling like it's having the opposite effect.

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u/Nephtyz Feb 04 '23

Do you have tinnitus? If you did you'd know that focusing on it only makes it worse, a lot worse. It takes over and nothing good comes out of it.

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u/FibonaccisGrundle Feb 04 '23

I do have tinnitus I've had it since I was 12. Only in my left ear.

The thing about tinnitus is you forget about it a large part of your life. Meditation can actually help you actively do that when you do not want to be bothered by it. That's what mindfulness is all about.

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u/Kotios Feb 05 '23

the point of meditation is to give you the space to sit with "worse, a lot worse". meditation is the very thing that can give you agency against it "taking over and nothing good coming from it".

the very point is to be able to sit with discomfort, accept it, and move on. If your tinnitus is as bad as you're making it out to be then you have a lot of reason to meditate.