If you meditate because you hate your anxiety, you should stop.
Do you often say to yourself: “If you meditated consistently, you wouldn’t be feeling so stressed out right now”?
Meditation is great and may help you get grounded but is NOT the antidote to anxiety.
Even if you get to meditate 10 times a day, it doesn’t mean one day you will be 100% protected from anxiety.
Meditation does NOT immunise you against anxiety.
If this is the reason you meditate, you’re doing more harm than good.
Because …
1 – You beat yourself up for not being able to stick to meditation.
2 – You get angry because no matter how much you meditate, anxiety doesn’t disappear.
3- The worst is that if you meditate or do something consistently “for your anxiety”, you send a subliminal message to your unconscious mind that you’re afraid of anxiety.
Fear of anxiety means … more anxiety.
With love, Angelos
PS: The picture is from my homeland—Lefkada, Greece. 💙