Mindfulness for anxiety

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Interesting pickles.  Truly.

I've worked with several therapists in the past that advocated mindfulness and since I'm a pretty fast paced person it was difficult for me. I had a dear friend that talked to me a lot about meditation and even that was a difficult struggle, but he told me to just keep trying to meditate in smaller and smaller increments of time until I could manage it. At first I had to keep physically moving in order to get my mind to focus to even be able to successfully count to 2, sounds ridiculous right? But the reality was that my brain just works very quickly so to slow it down enough to focus I needed that physical movement component. Once I had a better handle on how to slow my mind I was able to remove the incessant need for physical movement to focus better. I still require a great deal of physical movement in order to keep my whole mind and body in the present, but it's no longer as extreme and I get a little better everyday at focusing my mind while keeping my body still and  keeping my mind still while my body moves. My point being, have faith in yourself that even if you must start small keep trying because every small achievement is progress!