I had my Women's Cognitive Therapy Group tonight. We listened to a pretty standard type of
guided meditation used in mindfulness-based cognitive therapy that had us check in with all the different parts of our body to see where we were holding any anxiety or stress. If you have not tried one of
these, they can be very relaxing... they can also be difficult to do because it requires you to slow down and methodically check in on each area of your body. I find it difficult and often inconvenient to do this I'm upset about something or feeling anxious. Sometimes as I try to do it, I feel like a car with it's wheels spinning, trying to go 80mph, with the brakes on. It's hard to slow your mind when it wants to race around. But with practice, this becomes a skill that you can eventually use to invoke calmness almost instantly, at any time.
I didn't have trouble easing into this one tonight though, because I had one of those "lost" days today,
