Getting fit/losing weight, lets do it together! - Page 6

Aisha Azar · 07-20-2007, 05:47 PM

Dear Miss Shimmy,
Thanks for the encouragement!!

Dear Charity,
Actually I studied metaphysics and a requisite of that is daily meditation. In some people who have anxiety disorder, meditation actually causes an anxiety response because the physiological changes that put extra oxygen in the body also can cause sensations that mimic some of those during an anxiety attack. I was usally able to keep my anxiety response undee control during meditation, but not always.

During an anxiety attack, most people want to sit still because their heart is usually beating at 150 beats per minute or more, making everything difficult,painful or just plain too scary for words. The victim feels like she/he is dying. I have anxiety disorder caused by a slight defect in my mitral valve in my heart. This, they have recently discovered, is true for many people
(especially women) who have it. Mine is congenital and my grandmother had the same thing. What helps is to know that adrenaline, the hormone that is causing the problem, has a finite time before it runs out, usually about 1 1/2 hours, so the attack is not going to last longer than that. However, usually the hormone imbalance caused by the attack causes a bout of depression after the attack is over.
Regards,
A'isha

slinks · 07-20-2007, 10:00 PM

I have probably joined this party a little too late, but I do aerobics almost every other morning if I'm not doing aerobics I'm dancing usually doing technique practice or veil work for the arms ... but anyway back to the aerobics I have 3 videos which I taped myself from my aerobics video collection (I've been doing aerobics for niegh on 22 years, I've always loved it) on one of my videos I have 7 straight aerobic workouts taped in a row which I'll do one after the other for 7 days, then I change over to the next tape which contains 7 step aerobic workouts that put me through another 7 days .. then the 3rd video has step, aerobic, step, aerobic and so on which takes me through the next 7 days .. then I start all over again or I'll do bellydancing for a week .. but never bellyrobics !!! I did that for 3 years and promptly forgot how to dance !!! As for my diet I'm a coeliac so I don't eat anything that contains wheat, oats or barley and gluton ..

Reen.Blom · 07-20-2007, 11:31 PM

Hey girls, best wishes and good luck to everyone!

*lots of hugs*

Reen.Blom

charity · 07-21-2007, 04:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by A'isha Azar

Dear Miss Shimmy,
Thanks for the encouragement!!

Dear Charity,
Actually I studied metaphysics and a requisite of that is daily meditation. In some people who have anxiety disorder, meditation actually causes an anxiety response because the physiological changes that put extra oxygen in the body also can cause sensations that mimic some of those during an anxiety attack. I was usally able to keep my anxiety response undee control during meditation, but not always.

During an anxiety attack, most people want to sit still because their heart is usually beating at 150 beats per minute or more, making everything difficult,painful or just plain too scary for words. The victim feels like she/he is dying. I have anxiety disorder caused by a slight defect in my mitral valve in my heart. This, they have recently discovered, is true for many people
(especially women) who have it. Mine is congenital and my grandmother had the same thing. What helps is to know that adrenaline, the hormone that is causing the problem, has a finite time before it runs out, usually about 1 1/2 hours, so the attack is not going to last longer than that. However, usually the hormone imbalance caused by the attack causes a bout of depression after the attack is over.
Regards,
A'isha

thats terrible, i had no idea. 1.5 hours in fear is still too long.

i only had a few anxiety attack, but it was preceded by two devastating events and i was quite young. it has been years since i have had any more. though i dont know why that is.

Shanazel · 07-23-2007, 02:50 AM

Dear A'isha,

Thank you. After so many years, I have concluded that depression and anxiety attacks are neither as fatal as asbestosis nor as chronic as juvenile diabetes, so I consider myself relatively lucky. I got over being embarrassed by the afflictions years ago- they are a fact of my life, and I neither hide them or (I hope) bore people with the details.

Charity, I am terrible at sitting meditation- I get impatient and antsy and no amount of concentration and practice has ever changed that. My best meditation comes while walking, drawing, or writing, so if you ever see me striding through the streets frowning fiercely to myself, you can figure I am actually meditating.

Shanazel

Zurah · 07-23-2007, 09:41 AM

Shanazel, that’s also my favorite way of dealing with anxiety attacks: a long, long walk, writing, or a no-brain, frothy movie or book; it normally works to sort of take my mind off it while it lasts, though not always – anyway, anything to avoid taking medicines or going to the doctor (one of the things that is pretty sure to bring on an attack – I avoid both things like the plague, even though in the end I always do well in tests and such. Just a couple months ago I had a really bad, scary reaction seemingly due to the pill I was taking, even though the doctor said I could keep taking it. I’m still not 100% well. Ugh, how I loathe medicines). All my heartfelt sympathy to everyone who suffers anxiety attacks – ever since age eighteen I’ve never been able to sleep really well again as a result of those.

Shanazel · 07-23-2007, 03:00 PM

Aren't we a jumpy bunch? Must have something to do with our artistic sensibilities, hmm?

Aisha Azar · 07-23-2007, 03:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shanazel

Aren't we a jumpy bunch? Must have something to do with our artistic sensibilities, hmm?

Dear Shanazel,
Back when I was in a quandry about what anxiety attacks were I did quite a lot of studying up on them. ( Had to stop frequently because reading about it made me so damn nervous!!) One theory had to do with anxiety victims maybe having more nerve endings than people who did not suffer from it, therefore being extremely sensitized physically. That along with constantly monitoring our bodies to make sure we feel the way we think we should may have some correlation to us moving our bodies around pretty well. We know what to move and how from years of being so very conscious of every little part of ourselves on the physical level. I was surprised to learn that other people do not necessarily feel their pulse and heart beat all the time like anxiety victims seem to do. It is an interesting sort of malady from many different standpoints.

Dear Zurah,
I also have medication phobias, due to having an allergic reaction to an antibiotic once and going into a full blown anxiety attack at the same time. It seems that agoraphobia is a common problem among anxiety victims, because they have attacks while they are out someplace and then equate them with that. I am luck in that I do not have it!!

Regards,
A'isha

charity · 07-23-2007, 03:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shanazel

Charity, I am terrible at sitting meditation- I get impatient and antsy and no amount of concentration and practice has ever changed that.

My best meditation comes while walking, drawing, or writing, so if you ever see me striding through the streets frowning fiercely to myself, you can figure I am actually meditating.

Shanazel

LMAO, this is so true!

miss_shimmy · 08-04-2007, 05:26 PM

hows everyone doing?

07-20-2007, 05:47 PM	#51 (permalink)
Aisha Azar V.I.P. Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Pacific Northwest USA Posts: 4,518	Weight, etc. Dear Miss Shimmy, Thanks for the encouragement!! Dear Charity, Actually I studied metaphysics and a requisite of that is daily meditation. In some people who have anxiety disorder, meditation actually causes an anxiety response because the physiological changes that put extra oxygen in the body also can cause sensations that mimic some of those during an anxiety attack. I was usally able to keep my anxiety response undee control during meditation, but not always. During an anxiety attack, most people want to sit still because their heart is usually beating at 150 beats per minute or more, making everything difficult,painful or just plain too scary for words. The victim feels like she/he is dying. I have anxiety disorder caused by a slight defect in my mitral valve in my heart. This, they have recently discovered, is true for many people (especially women) who have it. Mine is congenital and my grandmother had the same thing. What helps is to know that adrenaline, the hormone that is causing the problem, has a finite time before it runs out, usually about 1 1/2 hours, so the attack is not going to last longer than that. However, usually the hormone imbalance caused by the attack causes a bout of depression after the attack is over. Regards, A'isha

07-20-2007, 10:00 PM	#52 (permalink)
slinks V.I.P. Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Australia, Sunny Queensland Posts: 1,195	I have probably joined this party a little too late, but I do aerobics almost every other morning if I'm not doing aerobics I'm dancing usually doing technique practice or veil work for the arms ... but anyway back to the aerobics I have 3 videos which I taped myself from my aerobics video collection (I've been doing aerobics for niegh on 22 years, I've always loved it) on one of my videos I have 7 straight aerobic workouts taped in a row which I'll do one after the other for 7 days, then I change over to the next tape which contains 7 step aerobic workouts that put me through another 7 days .. then the 3rd video has step, aerobic, step, aerobic and so on which takes me through the next 7 days .. then I start all over again or I'll do bellydancing for a week .. but never bellyrobics !!! I did that for 3 years and promptly forgot how to dance !!! As for my diet I'm a coeliac so I don't eat anything that contains wheat, oats or barley and gluton .. Last edited by slinks; 07-20-2007 at 10:02 PM.

07-23-2007, 09:41 AM	#56 (permalink)
Zurah Moderator Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Spain Posts: 648	Anxiety attacks Shanazel, that’s also my favorite way of dealing with anxiety attacks: a long, long walk, writing, or a no-brain, frothy movie or book; it normally works to sort of take my mind off it while it lasts, though not always – anyway, anything to avoid taking medicines or going to the doctor (one of the things that is pretty sure to bring on an attack – I avoid both things like the plague, even though in the end I always do well in tests and such. Just a couple months ago I had a really bad, scary reaction seemingly due to the pill I was taking, even though the doctor said I could keep taking it. I’m still not 100% well. Ugh, how I loathe medicines). All my heartfelt sympathy to everyone who suffers anxiety attacks – ever since age eighteen I’ve never been able to sleep really well again as a result of those.

08-04-2007, 05:26 PM	#60 (permalink)
miss_shimmy Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: united kingdom Posts: 929	hows everyone doing? __________________ bodylicious

07-20-2007, 11:31 PM	#53 (permalink)
Reen.Blom V.I.P. Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Between Heaven and Earth Posts: 2,263	Hey girls, best wishes and good luck to everyone! lots of hugs Reen.Blom

07-23-2007, 02:50 AM	#55 (permalink)
Shanazel Moderator Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Rocky Mountains USA Posts: 4,684	Dear A'isha, Thank you. After so many years, I have concluded that depression and anxiety attacks are neither as fatal as asbestosis nor as chronic as juvenile diabetes, so I consider myself relatively lucky. I got over being embarrassed by the afflictions years ago- they are a fact of my life, and I neither hide them or (I hope) bore people with the details. Charity, I am terrible at sitting meditation- I get impatient and antsy and no amount of concentration and practice has ever changed that. My best meditation comes while walking, drawing, or writing, so if you ever see me striding through the streets frowning fiercely to myself, you can figure I am actually meditating. Shanazel

07-23-2007, 03:00 PM	#57 (permalink)
Shanazel Moderator Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Rocky Mountains USA Posts: 4,684	Aren't we a jumpy bunch? Must have something to do with our artistic sensibilities, hmm?