Anxiety & Meditative Art
Friends, as of late, I have been anxious. A quick glance into the current cultural zeitgeist informs me I am not alone in this feeling. Election stress and anxiety are out and about in the world and incessant political text and phone calls do not help. I cannot chalk my feeling that a sandbag is sitting on my heart up to politics alone, but it has been, perhaps, nice (?) to have some widespread camaraderie in this feeling. In an attempt to curb the anxiety, I have followed a meditation practice sent to me by my boss, listened to a podcast on sitting still, and gone for a loooooooong walk. These were all helpful in some way but when I would, in the evening time, return to sitting on my couch (I have a couch now!! thank you Ella) the dreadful, uneasy, difficult-to-breathe feeling would creep back in. I'm not unfamiliar with this feeling. Sometimes I just get this way. And I know that what I need is to find a way to hard reset my brain. The thing that works best for me is making in