Why Healing Your Nervous System is the Key to Overcoming Anxiety

Before I started any kind of meditation or mindfulness, I was all over the place. After a lifetime of not knowing how to process or heal my experiences in life, I had slowly gotten to a point where my mental and physical health was beyond bad. I experienced some of my lowest of lows and I’m quite sure that at that time I would have been told by just about any doctor that I had:

* An Anxiety Disorder

* Depression

* Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

* An Eating disorder

* ADHD

* Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

I had spent a lifetime dealing with everything on my own, not feeling like I could let anyone in, nor having the tools or resources to be healthy and thrive. I had no idea the impact that this could have on a person or the chronic stress that my body was under as a result.

I hadn’t understood that it was the reason I couldn’t read a page of a book without getting distracted, why I was losing my memory, why I always had to be 10 minutes early everywhere I went or why I felt like I needed to have everything done right now. I was so focused on getting things done that I was living the next moment before I had even left this one. I wasn’t sleeping, was drinking copious amounts of coffee to compensate and drank more alcohol than I would like to admit. I had issues with my digestion, my skin would flare up and I experienced debilitating panic attacks that left me feeling terrified inside.

Starting to apply mindfulness and meditation changed my entire life. It naturally allowed my nervous system to heal and when it was at peace, it finally made me realise how I actually should have been feeling all along.

Meditation allowed me to see all the ways that my symptoms would come to the surface, and all the ways I would get trapped by them. It allowed me to have the awareness to see where things were actually coming from, and to have the patience and confidence to process and work through them. It allowed me the chance to finally read a book and to focus on one thing at a time. It allowed me to be accepting….of myself, of others, and of how things really are. It has allowed me to develop deep inner peace and to see that there is actually no good or bad in what I feel.

Most importantly, it allowed me to see that there was nothing wrong with me and that nothing needed to be fixed. It made me realise that when I change the way I saw myself, I was capable of doing far more than I ever imagined.

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Molly is a Holistic Counsellor & Meditation Therapist with a Masters in Counselling & Psychotherapy.. However, most of what she brings to the table is her personal human experience and dedication to self awareness, healing and growth. She is the founder of Mind Habitat which offers Holistic Counselling & Psychotherapy to humans who are looking to reduce suffering and access more freedom in their life. You can book a session with Molly here or visit the Mind Habitat homepage here.