OCD Meditation | Guided Meditation for OCD/Anxiety - Detachment from Intrusive Thoughts
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Do not fear your intrusive thoughts - they exist because they’re the last thing you’d want to act out. Simply look at them as laughable little thoughts they’ve been randomly configured in your mind - maybe you had the absolutely random image or thought of hurting or even killing, yourself, someone you love, or someone innocent on the street. Because you’re an interoceptive person, you’re inclined to believe this means something. We all have random and disturbing thoughts run through the river of our attention - it’s only when we pay far too much attention and think they mean something that we lose our peace over them. Exposing yourself to these thoughts, sitting with them, writing them down, and speaking them aloud, over time will help you to realize just how silly and outrageous they are. And precisely when you stop trying to run from them, they begin to fade. Your brain noticed it doesn’t scare you - and registers that it must not be a threat. You all will get better, soon. Trust me on that 🙏🏽❤️
Thank you. This has helped me a lot. I’m gonna win over these intrusive thoughts.
thank you
Thank-you from all of us struggling. We will make it 💞
Thank you so much! I definitely needed this ❤️
I know but my heart hurts because of it idk what to do
I use this often... we are bigger than anxiety and OCD... we will get through this!
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Umm ocd is not curable is tratble sorry man i have ocd to
@@bigadiel2988 keep believing that man
@@bigadiel2988 anything good is possible :)
To everyone struggling: I hope things get better for you. Hugs :)
I’ve been struggling for years still am but thank you so much ❤️
I needed this. These past few weeks have been hell, I'm fighting what feels like shadows in my own mind. Nothing is real and yet it all feels like it's coming out to kill me. I haven't meditated in weeks, and this gave me a moment of peace. To be validated in my worry and distracted nature felt really reassuring and lifted a burden off me, even if just for half a minute. I'll definitely be coming back to this, thank you
How are you now?
Struggling very hard with intrusive thoughts right now. My intrusive thoughts are often accompanied by physical feelings in my body and it makes it so much scarier. I feel like I’m the only person on Earth who gets a physical feeling and that it makes me intrusive thoughts real.
And i thought i was the one going crazy it’s horrible it ruined my pre teen years it cost alot of distrust with others and so much more sometimes i wish i didnt have a body anymore
That’s anxiety my friend, can cause your body to do all sorts of things, I’ve had lots of physical symptoms, it’s normal!!
I feel this way too
Your not alone Ik what you mean I’ve been struggling with this for a 2 years but it’s got more intense couple months ago when I finally decided to evolve to kill my old patters your ok your gonna be ok trust your body and God
Thank you for sharing that it makes me feel like I'm not alone. The physical symptoms are the worst part for me.
I was on the verge of an OCD anxiety attack and this meditation really helped bring me back down so thank you ❤
Just wanted to tell you thank you. I think this saved my life tonight. Thank you so much.
I hope you're well ❤
Love this. Am often alarmed and unsettled by intrusive thoughts, but this helps to melt away the anxiety. Thank you.
Just try to see them outside of you. Because thats what they are they’re not part of you. Tell it to yourself, this is an intrusive thought and it’ll slowly lose strength and go away. It helps for me! You’re not alone!
Thank you. When I get a bad intrusive thought I often have to ask for a lot of external reassurance that it’s not true. I’m tired of living this way and so are others around me
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As someone who suffers from ocd this really helped. My mind was trying to focus on the intrusive and make me act on it (perform the task it wanted me to do) but through listening to this meditation I was given guidance in ignoring and suppressing it, to not give it any attention. Thank u so much, sometimes it feels like there is another person inside my mind trying to dictate me but you were there to protect me from them, just for 10 minutes. Going to use this whenever I’m feeling anxious, thank you.
I should probably say obsessive thought rather than intrusive , I suppose they are similar but ueah
I have obsessive thoughts
Feeling like there’s someone else in my mind trying to dictate my actions describes me perfectly. I wish you the best on your healing journey
i should have not read this. it made me anxious knowing that u perform on ur obsessive thoughts
@charlenelouise4758 listen to this, and read a healing book about healing mental health. Pray and know intrusive thoughts are not real they're meaningless and junk. Allowing them to pass and not giving them attention, not getting entangled with them gives them no power. They will become less and less eventually fade with time. Trust and have faith believe you're already cured. Praying for you and God is always there with you 🙏✨️❤️ supplements that help are ashwagandha, nac, l theanine and inositol. Take multi vitamin and probiotics, eat healthy, move your body. Exercise. You are already healed believe 🙏
Thank you so much. I've returned to meditation after a very long break from it caused by my ocd. I was scared of what would happen if I was left alone with my thoughts, but this has been exactly what I needed. This meditation made me feel at peace and this comment section made me feel less alone. I hope everyone here has a beautiful day ❤
I agree - this video is amazing for ocd... hope you're doing well! ❤
@@noshoes1588 I'm doing okay, still have OCD but it's way less intense! I hope you're doing well too
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This is the first time I'm seeking out a meditation like this. I've struggled with depression and anxiety for many years. And as hard as those conditions are to live with, I understood the symptoms of them. But as I grew older, I struggled more and more with obsessive thoughts and behavior. It took me a long time to connect it with any one condition, like OCD. I'd keep checking things like stovetop burners or locks on doors. I'd count things out because it felt better to number things. And my thoughts were even worse. I'd think about something over and over until I couldn't get it out of my head. I'd feel negative thoughts spiraling over and over with no control. It's gotten worse these past few weeks. I can't get any mental health care, and I have very few people to talk to. I'd watch movies to distract myself, but I'd get obsessed with the movies and certain actors in them. My mind has become overwhelmed with negative thoughts and feelings. I don't even know who I am anymore. I wouldn't wish an illness like this on anyone. I'm watching this video to get some semblance of peace. I hope I can be helped. I'm scared.
Yes, it's gotten harder for me, too.. I'm isolated without many people to talk to.. I feel better when I'm talking to strangers in the store about absolutely anything.. also, the human exchange reminds me I'm still here.. when my children were home still ,all my thoughts were about their needs..ofcourse, I'd obsess over them with paranoid thoughts. Even if all my thoughts are figured out ,my brain says uh oh let's find something else.. I cried when I turned this on when he simply said what's going on in our head... My thoughts all crashed into a collision, and I heard fuzz or white noise in my head. To many that my brain freaked out, I guess.
I really liked the comment about the overactive car alarm, it just felt like a perfect analogy to recognize the issue and accept it
As someone who has intrusive thoughts, and earlier it was much worse, firstly I dealt with that thoughts with help of other people, and my own logic too, why it's not gonna happen, or why it's just an illusion, then what will I do if that happens, and so. In case of some my resentments, that bring fear, with help of other people and myself too I took apart my side of those, what was my fault in each of those, what I did wrong and I accepted it. And now I have much less of the thoughts I try to fight. Because I took them and considered them closely, and worked with them they themselves no longer bring me much fear. But I still have fear of having them. And I remind myself everytime - let them be, I cannot control my thoughts, it's the same thing if I tried to control weather and tried to not let bad weather happen. It will happen anyway no matter how much effort I put to not let it. So do I live then in fear that I will fail to not let the bad weather happen, in fear that it will occur? It the same thing if you live in fear that bad thought will occur. It's just a thought of mine, it's completely normal to have my mind giving me any kind of thoughts, any memories, any images. I can't control them I only can try and think about something good, something lightsome, or be in the process, but still not expecting that I will get what I want. I only can try, but the result can be any, I need to let the result to be any.
And even if bad thought comes, I don't have to react on it, just a thought, now I have it, now don't, it doesn't define me.
My mind doesn't care if I have good emotions or bad, it's just want them, any emotions, any energy, negative or positive, it's me who need to put some effort and try to think of some good things, instead of bad things.
And then again do not confuse control with responsibility. Control is when one does something and expects the result to be exactly what he wants, and there comes the fear of not getting it. Responsibility is when you do something, e. g. try to be in the process, or to think about something good, but you let the result be any, you might fail, and still be thinking of some negative thoughts, but gradually, the result will be better and better. You do something and let the Universe decide what the result will be of your actions (or call it chance, or circumstances, or God, if you believe in God), most likely it will be positive, but other options are possible too. You just do what you can. Same goes for everything in life, even for the thoughts of inflamed consciousness
This was so incredibly helpful! I wish there was a one hour long version
If your dealing with this your not alone I have been going through it a year now but I have learnt to cope and I have good days again it’s hard at the start but I promise you it gets better with time and understanding that it’s not real your thoughts are not you they come and go and that’s it your, you and you have got this xxx
I cried while listening to this meditation… THANK YOU! This is lifesaving
I've woken up from a bad dream after I have tried to fall asleep, which was difficult because I felt extremely guilty over something small and insignificant. This video really helped to put my mind at ease. Thank you so much!
Oh my goodness, this helped me! I have fluctuating thoughts of hurting my mom which I would never do! But this is so helpful
That means you would never dream of hurting your mom... Intrusive thoughts are the opposite of what you truly think, feel, and believe. Welcome the thoughts, feel the fear, and then make the decision to let them pass. Xxx
You are not alone brother keep going you are NOT your thoughts I promise
Very nice meditation. My mind is often out of control and nasty. This gives me hope.
I think this is the first time I’ve ever cried my eyes out during meditation. Man, I need help lol.
I am so glad to know I’m not alone or crazy bc I struggle with these things too and I developed ocd after taking far too many antibiotics for a infection and now every time I take a antibiotic it comes back again full force! Scary! Has anyone else developed ocd or anxiety from medication either antidepressants or antibiotics?!
How long did you take it and what kind? I have been on Bactrim MWF since January and I have major anxiety, I am thinking this was the reason. But I am also on prednisone so not sure which is causing the anxiety.
I suffer from intrusive thoughts that in the end, latch onto my lack of self love. This really helped me accept that this part of me who constantly frets and worries. She is not my enemy, but is simply just trying to protect me from the danger I once faced as a child, even if she does more harm than good. She wants to be heard and accepted just as much as my “good” qualities, I just have to find it within me to help guide this part of me so I can reunite myself into one again. Sometimes these thoughts hurt me, but when you are right, they are just nothing. Nothing I can touch or feel or smell, they only exist within my mind and nowhere else.
I cried when I read your comment. I never thought of it this way 😞 but it makes so much sense. Thank you ❤️
I can identify myself with this, thank you for describing it this way
I struggle with complex PTSD and this video ahs helped me. a small miracle. I pray for all of you.
Omg i too suffer from ocd and intrusive thoughts for god knows how many years and this meditation really calmed me down. Thank you so much💓 just OMG
Did it get rid of them?
My go to meditation video whenever I feel like my mind is racing and my anxiety is through the roof❤️🙌🏼
Thank you so much for this! I struggle with ROCD and this truly helped me diffuse myself from the thoughts.
same here, it helped
@@RichieDoesStuff hi .do you have to take medication to help you for anxiety ocd ?
I have anxiety ocd to hiv for 6 yrs I dont know how can I get over it
I’m so greatful for this meditation I get intrusive thoughts that get stuck sometimes and this meditation helps me move on
I have severe health anxiety/ocd. Recently I started to get some depersonalisation as a result of severe stress caused by rumination, some bad news I’ve struggled to process and starting a new job. The depersonalisation causes a rift between me and my memories making me feel as if I observe them through my mind but someone else was present and living them. I had a disturbing intrusive thought the other day saying ‘what if the memories aren’t actually my own and I have split personality disorder’. This thought really took hold and I’ve been obsessing over it since to the point where I’ve convinced myself I have split personality disorder. The ocd mind is truly a wild thing and I’m glad I’ve discovered meditation to help with this foggy and confused hell I’ve been going though.
I found your comment very interesting and thank you for sharing. It truly is scary how our OCD seems to pick the perfect intrusive thoughts to cause the most stress. I also wonder if it’s me causing those thoughts because I also feel like it’s almost a separate person from me.
Have you managed to recover from ocd?
@@npxtel_ hi, yes I have! I still have occasional intrusive thoughts but on the whole I’m a different person now. The truth is, that many don’t like to hear, is that you can’t beat ocd, anxiety, DPDR by thinking your way out of it. Therapy can of course help but I learnt recently through an excellent course by Jordan Hardgrave that the build up of stress/anxiety caused by ocd is having a profound effect on your body and as made clear by Dr Bessel Van Der Kolk, ‘the body keeps the score’. The stress and trauma that builds up in the body through such a struggle needs to be released in order for you to be able to get on top of your thoughts and your anxiety levels. You can do this through progressive muscle relaxation, massage, yoga Nidra and breath work. You will begin to realise that once you start dealing with the physical build up of tension, your brain responds accordingly and you will be able to rationalise more easily. I wish you all the luck with your recovery, believe me, I was in a very dark place when I posted that comment and if I can do it, anyone can.
I listen to this everyday and it helps a lot. Thanks for this. Very helpful!
Wow. Being present is making me cry
This video really helped me out. It's currently very early in the morning, and I needed this pretty bad. I'm also a fan of the video game-sounding music, haha. Thanks so much for this.
This is so amazing!! Really helped me today, will definitely keep using this! Thank you ☺️
This was lovely! Will sure practice it everyday! Thank you so much!❤🙏
I listen to this every morning. Thank you! 🙏🏻
I listened to this twice because it was just so good. I cried during but I felt so much more present afterwards. Thank you.
I never imagined I'll be here, but here I am. . Intrusive thoughts are making me suffer recently, and I feel extremely guilty over them. I also try to avoid, and even tried dissecting them( which apparently is wrong, its better to not engage them, and let them pass through accdg. to an article I read.) Hoping this will help me bcoz I really feel weirdly uncomfortable, and guilty when it just sneaks up on me or when it pops in my mind, its also starting to take ahold of me which I hate so much, bcoz it comes back too often.
Best meditation ive ever come across and will listen to this every day for the rest of my life to remind myself thoughts are just thoughts. My intrustive thoughts latch onto my lack of self-worth that stems from a traumatic childhood. I am in therapy currently and on antidepressants to help calm my flight or fight response back down as its become, like you said in the video "an over-active car alarm". My psychologist and psychiatrist have both diagnosed me with PTSD and OCD. It makes sense. I had tried the natural route for so long though - working out 3 times per week, eating a balanced diet, moving to a less stressful job, (admittedly I was slack on the meditation which I will now change) and got to a point where I needed medical intervention after another big stressor in my life, and there is absolutely no shame in that whatsoever. This meditation is a great place to start and learning not to let the intrusive thoughts rob you of your peace or falsely rob you of your perception of your self - detach yourself from your thoughts because you are not your thoughts. Remember who you are, you are amazing and your thoughts do not define you ❤️ I wish you all peace and be kind to yourselves.
No shame in medication. I’ve been there. Recovery doesn’t need to be one thing. Ultimately it’s everything in the round.
It sounds like you’ve been through a great deal. I’m really pleased this has been helping you. These aren’t the most successful meditations in the world but I love that they are reaching the people who need them. Sounds like you’re doing all the right things. Wishing you all the best in your continued recovery 🙂
thank you so much for this it was amazing. what you said about our minds constantly preparing us for a bunch of scenarios really spoke to me. i'm adding this to my regular meditations!
His voice sounds just like actor Clive Owen.
Incredibly relaxing audio-Thank you!
this was really helpful: the visual of the stream and being the observer of my thoughts helped me a lot. thank you :)
this meditation is amazing!!! love it and thank you for bringing it into the world!
This is the first time I encountered intrusive thoughts. And upon assessing myself.. I've been suffering with that kind of thoughts for how many years. And i don't know what to do and it's so hard for me. That's why I don't know how to be happy
I have had OCD since I was a kid and I’m now a middle-aged person. From my experience I have found getting the right medication or combination of medication‘s is truly helpful as serotonin and our lack of it I think is a huge reason for the OCD. Add in cognitive behavior therapy and it truly does become controllable. But remember even after being on medication and therapy if you get an intrusive thought it’s more of a lapse in your current recovery as opposed to a true relapse because you can simply start right over where you left off not at the beginning. God bless you and I pray you can recover as I pray for everybody here and myself
I can’t believe this actually worked to help my racing mind. I’ve been dealing with high OCD the past couple of days. Finally, took some advice from the NOCD app. Didn’t even feel like 10 mins, and my ocd feels like it’s now at a level where I can sleep without panicking.
All time FAVOURITE medication
Thank you so much this has helped me a lot with one of my ocd themes
Thank you so much.
I am so glad I found this video
Thank you for this!
Great content. Really enjoyed it
Thank youuu smmm to whoever made this made me feel so happy
Thank you, I really needed this x
Thank you. Thank you for doing this :)
I really needed this thanks ❤️
This was INCREDIBLE
Thank you. This is changing my life
thank you❤️
Rn I don’t understand my thoughts I have stuck ones but they aren’t about harm so it’s hard to get others to understand I just know they are stuck and it allways makes me feel like a differant version of myself I hate it it’s hard to watch anything cuz I wanna not have other things on my mind other than the task and be able to get lost in tv or anything like that I just wanna be my old self it’s much easier and enjoyable and easy and fun but these vids kinda help
Hey! I want to say thank you for this video. Yesterday I wanted to watch a movie but I started to have a lot of intrusive thoughts. Thank to you I was able to enjoy it and it became one of my favorite movies.
You’re more than welcome. Glad it’s helping. What was the movie? Need recommendations.
Really helped. Saving it for futture medtations. Thanks ❤
Who puts commercials in meditation videos??? Goes against the most important part of meditation... Uninterrupted!!
@Alana Holmes Yeah...that's not true. YT will suggest ads on videos, but creators can choose not to put them on/choose how many and where they go in the video.
No ads on it for me, so must've been TH-cam's doing!
i love this video this made my cry
This was amazing. Thank you for this video.
dude you are life saver
Thank you
THANK YOU
the real life saver video
Thank you.
Thank you for the helpful meditation 🙏
thank you thank you thank you
Cool thank you this helps a lot!
Thank you a lot for this great meditation
I have river access down the street.. I pictured myself down there. My ruminating thoughts are people. Whether I'm concerned about their welfare, them hurting me, or did hurt me , things i wish I could say, but I don't do that anymore. I don't say anything to the people who mess with me as to practice self-control. And I want to not react to some of the them gaslighting. So I'm at the river picturing them all on rafts drifting by. At one point, I pushed my mother in law in really hard, but then I had a thought to do it gently no matter how horrible she was. So I'm picturing separate rafts, then I say , "Here you guys ,here's a big one, and I want all of you to get in and go now just leave." I saw me in the raft for a bit, and at the boat launch ahead, I jumped in the cold, fresh water and walked back alone. I remember actually doing this, and coming out of the cold water to a warm breeze on my body with river smells in the air was amazing.
thank you 🙏 this really helped me, bless you friend
Thank you!
Very cool
Wishing the best for all here. ❤
He sounds like Richmond from IT Crowd 😊
Beautiful….and effective. ❤❤❤
Great 👍👏😊
Very helpful. Thank you!
I pray for us ALL ❤❤❤
My recent thought has been that if my pillows are just right I’m going to never sleep and then I’ll be late to work. It’s been keeping me up at night my pillows not being just right it makes me freak out
Lately been having very disturbing thoughts, yesterday was ok but right now im very anxious, in scared i might have a mental illess like my mother or that this will haut me forever without any end. This sucks :( the biggest thought is that these might never go away
Paul Mccartney helping a lot!
I used to use this when my ocd was at it’s worst. This was the only thing that could get me at least an hour of sleep.
It gets better everyone. Now I’m just using it bc I want to fall asleep quickly. How things change!!
this gives me so much hope 🥲 I’m on month 4 of an OCD cycle right now
@@saravictoria972 I hope since this comment things have gotten better for you! I know how painful it can be but the feeling after surviving this is unbelievably worth it.
@@saravictoria972 it’s interesting to hear you say it’s a four month OCD cycle because I’m starting to think my OCD comes in cycles. I’ve had it since I was a little kid so I’ve had OCD literally many decades. But only recently it started to occur to me that while the intrusive thoughts are always in the background there are cycles that could last weeks where they can really take over. I pray you are able to find relief as everyone else here I also pray for. Nobody who doesn’t have OCD really understands what we go through
I need to know how many times I can do it randomly? Once I did it 9 times and I was excellent for the day...but I didn't take deep breaths for 9 times....please let me know...it provides instant relief
Thank you so much🌝❤️
You’re more than welcome. Glad it’s been helpful 🙂
My intrusive thoughts have ruined my life. I am in disbelief how bad things can get, and have for me…it feels like I’m being punished for something I didn’t do.
Can someone help explain to me how to think of your mind as a flowing stream and imagining yourself sitting on the riverbank when meditating? I’m not exactly sure how to do it. Thank you.
Just visualize it, that's how you do it. Think you're sitting on the river bank and your brain will help you visualize it! Hope that helps..
go to full screen of ur mobile and try to look this video after couple of time u will get this video in ur mind.
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a couple of months ago after work (i work at a bar) i was sat with some coworkers and we all got pretty drunk and i got flirty with them, i have a boyfriend and and the guilt has been eating me up, although i know it would have never gone any further than that, i keep having intrusive thoughts of sleeping with other people and questioning my own intentions, ive spoken to him about it and he understands. i just havent been able to escape the thoughts and the guilt and shame and i feel incredibly unfaithful, i feel like ive cheated when i know that i havent. this did help me to escape for a moment, but i still cant seem to kick the guilt.
I had similar ones. The fact you had an intrusive thought meant you would never ever do this. Intrusive thoughts are the opposite of what you believe, morals, etc. Obsessing over them and trying to understand the meaning behind it is the drug. You gotta just accept that these thoughts come and laugh at them when they do, and they’ll go away. (Which is so much harder than sajd).
I looked for a vid like this for the intrusive thoughts this morning and when he says it's ok to be like this I broke down mentally. Holy shit :(
I need help but at the same time I know reaching out I'll just be told to go see a specialist and all they'll do is give me depression meds..
I’d personally recommend reaching out. I’m in the UK and as well as medication they can sign you up for therapy. This was a game changer for me. I had ERP therapy with a really lovely therapist and it changed everything. A lot of the things I learned are so similar to the fundamentals of meditation. Which is how I got involved in this 🙂 I live a happy and healthy life. Recovery is possible you just need the right support. I hope you find it.
oh my god freakin life changing video
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Struggling with both sensorimotor and pure OCD. 😢 won’t let them get the best of me
I keep focusing on my breathing making me breathe manually does this help with it?
Let your breathing remain automatic. The key is to just notice it and accept it. No need to force anything. We start off with a few purposeful breaths but then just try to relax into your natural rhythm.
Why should we accept the bad thoughts it gives us more anxiety
I know it’s time to mediate when I try to read and my focus/instrusive thoughts are starting to distract me