"It felt like I'm not a freak, I'm not alone" - George Ezra on his OCD. If you or someone you know has been affected by any topics covered in this clip, find information and support here 👉 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1NGvFrTqWChr03LrYlw2Hkk/information-and-support-mental-health
If you have OCD (compulsions and/or intrusive thoughts), do the following practice and your compulsions and intrusive thoughts WILL 100% get better and most likely even completely vanish if you apply this advice for long enough, you have to do this if you want to get better, there is no way around it: Meditate daily, ideally 30-60+ minutes, but you can start with 5+ minutes and work your way up. I recommend Vipassana meditation, which simply means putting your attention on the bodily sensations of breathing. Meditation is essentially about one thing: Practicing Awareness. Sitting meditation is an intentional, focused practice of Awareness, but it's just the beginning. You also have to practice Awareness when you are not sitting down to meditate. You basically have to meditate/practice Awareness 24/7, no matter what you are doing, no matter how many thoughts come up and no matter how much you suffer mentally and physically. Practicing Awareness means simply observing your thoughts and compulsions (and also emotions, sensory perceptions, bodily sensations, pain etc., basically everything you experience) in a distanced and detached way. You have to realize that you ARE the observer/the Awareness that is free from all experience. YOU ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS AND COMPULSIONS. You are free from your thoughts, your thoughts just fool you into believing that they are real. Thoughts are just randomly generated bullshit, don't ever worry about them and don't ever think they are more than that. Never believe ANY thoughts. Do not identify with your thoughts and simply observe them from a distance. Your OCD will try to come up with all kinds of sneaky shit to draw you back into it, but NEVER give in to it, no matter what it says. Examples of sly tricks of OCD would be thoughts like "Meditation/Awareness doesn't work", "Your OCD will never go away" etc., but all these tricks only work because you let yourself get fooled by them, because you believe in them. You willingly give your power to these meaningless thoughts so that they can destroy you with it. See the absurdity in that. Also, never try to argue with thoughts, correct them, fight them, get rid of them etc., all of that is more tricks of OCD. You cannot solve OCD inside of the mind, only by stepping outside of the mind and observing it (Awareness). Intrusive thoughts and compulsions are randomly generated and you have absolutely no control over them whatsoever, but you have the power of being able to simply observe them, which will make you realize that you are not these thoughts, which will make them go away if you do it long enough. They only keep coming if they keep getting negative reactions from you. Fully accept and welcome all thoughts, no matter how strange or disturbing they may be. Never resist thoughts. Thoughts have no power over you as long as you don't give it to them. Never feel ashamed, disgusted or shocked by your thoughts, this fuels intrusive thoughts and compulsions immensely. Compulsions and intrusive thoughts thrive on your negative reactions to them. Simply observe them without being irritated by them. OCD is threatened by Meditation/Awareness, that's why it will try to keep you from practicing them. When you practice Meditation/Awareness, your OCD might try to draw you back into its grasp through anxiety and anxious reactions in the body: tension, racing heart, sweating, stomach/heart pain etc., don't identify with these uncomfortable bodily sensations either and also observe all of this in a detached way. It's all just the OCD trying to trick you and ruin your life. The fact that your OCD will try to keep you from meditating/practicing Awareness should be a clear signal to you that you are on the right path to overcoming it. Meditating and constantly practicing Awareness might be very hard at first, but don't be discouraged, it will become easier and easier with time, and your OCD and all its symptoms will gradually become better. Even if thoughts still come up, they will not bother you anymore, you will just see them for the random bullshit that they are. The end goal would be to remain in Awareness 24/7, which would make you completely invulnerable to all compulsions and intrusive thoughts. Also, as corny as it may sound, what's even more important than Meditation and constantly practicing Awareness is fully and unconditionally loving yourself and everybody else and everything else in the world, even the most evil shit you can imagine, even your intrusive thoughts and compulsions. Your world and life have to become completely filled with Love. Negativity and suffering can only thrive where there is a lack of Love. Love repels negativity and suffering like oil repels water. You WILL get through this if you follow my advice consequently for a long enough time, please trust me for your own sake. Wishing you all the best and much love my friend. 😊❤
A thousand times yes. 1 in 100 people are estimated to have Pure O, and I reckon that statistic is significantly lower than what it should be because Pure O is criminally underdiagnosed due to misdiagnosis and people feeling too ashamed of their thoughts to seek help. 58,000 people watched this video, which means that *at least* 580 people have just found out what is wrong with them. That is 580 people who will now have access to a diagnosis and the clarity, community, treatment, resources, education and so much more that comes along with it. 580 people who will live a little easier knowing that there is hope. 580 people who feel represented. 580 people who might seek therapy. And, because unfortunately those with OCD are 10 times more likely to off themselves then the general population, 580 people who might choose to live another day; 580 families who will keep their loved one. 580 people who might help to spread awareness of the condition themselves, like a game of infection tag as a child where those who are tagged tag other people, who tag others, who tag others. Bless anyone who works to spread awareness about Pure O.
@@marilynstarkie7321 im glad he helped!! I’m also a sufferer. Ive never been diagnosed but there came a point where there was no explanation why I had to do all these things and why it took up so much of my time. I hope you’re doing alright and if you ever wanna talk about it or about anything, feel free to !
If you have OCD (compulsions and/or intrusive thoughts), do the following practice and your compulsions and intrusive thoughts WILL 100% get better and most likely even completely vanish if you apply this advice for long enough, you have to do this if you want to get better, there is no way around it: Meditate daily, ideally 30-60+ minutes, but you can start with 5+ minutes and work your way up. I recommend Vipassana meditation, which simply means putting your attention on the bodily sensations of breathing. Meditation is essentially about one thing: Practicing Awareness. Sitting meditation is an intentional, focused practice of Awareness, but it's just the beginning. You also have to practice Awareness when you are not sitting down to meditate. You basically have to meditate/practice Awareness 24/7, no matter what you are doing, no matter how many thoughts come up and no matter how much you suffer mentally and physically. Practicing Awareness means simply observing your thoughts and compulsions (and also emotions, sensory perceptions, bodily sensations, pain etc., basically everything you experience) in a distanced and detached way. You have to realize that you ARE the observer/the Awareness that is free from all experience. YOU ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS AND COMPULSIONS. You are free from your thoughts, your thoughts just fool you into believing that they are real. Thoughts are just randomly generated bullshit, don't ever worry about them and don't ever think they are more than that. Never believe ANY thoughts. Do not identify with your thoughts and simply observe them from a distance. Your OCD will try to come up with all kinds of sneaky shit to draw you back into it, but NEVER give in to it, no matter what it says. Examples of sly tricks of OCD would be thoughts like "Meditation/Awareness doesn't work", "Your OCD will never go away" etc., but all these tricks only work because you let yourself get fooled by them, because you believe in them. You willingly give your power to these meaningless thoughts so that they can destroy you with it. See the absurdity in that. Also, never try to argue with thoughts, correct them, fight them, get rid of them etc., all of that is more tricks of OCD. You cannot solve OCD inside of the mind, only by stepping outside of the mind and observing it (Awareness). Intrusive thoughts and compulsions are randomly generated and you have absolutely no control over them whatsoever, but you have the power of being able to simply observe them, which will make you realize that you are not these thoughts, which will make them go away if you do it long enough. They only keep coming if they keep getting negative reactions from you. Fully accept and welcome all thoughts, no matter how strange or disturbing they may be. Never resist thoughts. Thoughts have no power over you as long as you don't give it to them. Never feel ashamed, disgusted or shocked by your thoughts, this fuels intrusive thoughts and compulsions immensely. Compulsions and intrusive thoughts thrive on your negative reactions to them. Simply observe them without being irritated by them. OCD is threatened by Meditation/Awareness, that's why it will try to keep you from practicing them. When you practice Meditation/Awareness, your OCD might try to draw you back into its grasp through anxiety and anxious reactions in the body: tension, racing heart, sweating, stomach/heart pain etc., don't identify with these uncomfortable bodily sensations either and also observe all of this in a detached way. It's all just the OCD trying to trick you and ruin your life. The fact that your OCD will try to keep you from meditating/practicing Awareness should be a clear signal to you that you are on the right path to overcoming it. Meditating and constantly practicing Awareness might be very hard at first, but don't be discouraged, it will become easier and easier with time, and your OCD and all its symptoms will gradually become better. Even if thoughts still come up, they will not bother you anymore, you will just see them for the random bullshit that they are. The end goal would be to remain in Awareness 24/7, which would make you completely invulnerable to all compulsions and intrusive thoughts. Also, as corny as it may sound, what's even more important than Meditation and constantly practicing Awareness is fully and unconditionally loving yourself and everybody else and everything else in the world, even the most evil shit you can imagine, even your intrusive thoughts and compulsions. Your world and life have to become completely filled with Love. Negativity and suffering can only thrive where there is a lack of Love. Love repels negativity and suffering like oil repels water. You WILL get through this if you follow my advice consequently for a long enough time, please trust me for your own sake. Wishing you all the best and much love my friend. 😊❤
This is a pretty difficult condition to live with it's weird because everything is internal and it's exhausting sometimes. It's almost like having a little monster control your thoughts.
Just to clarify for everyone, Pure O DOES involve compulsions. The compulsions are just mental instead of physical. Because the obsessions and compulsions are both thought-based, it can feel like you're just constantly obsessing.
@@jamesjohnstone1224 Yes you can. The same methods apply to mental compulsions as physical compulsions. Refrain from engaging in the thoughts, do not perform the compulsions that you feel you need to do to feel safe, and accept everything you feel and accept the fear of not doing the compulsion. This with practice teaches the brain that it's not a real danger that warrants a fear reaction
I think lots of us relate to the moment we first found out about Pure O. If only it was talked about more & people were educated more on mental health in school - people wouldn’t have to feel alone or scared sick about what’s happening in their head - it’s the worst feeling
If you have OCD (compulsions and/or intrusive thoughts), do the following practice and your compulsions and intrusive thoughts WILL 100% get better and most likely even completely vanish if you apply this advice for long enough, you have to do this if you want to get better, there is no way around it: Meditate daily, ideally 30-60+ minutes, but you can start with 5+ minutes and work your way up. I recommend Vipassana meditation, which simply means putting your attention on the bodily sensations of breathing. Meditation is essentially about one thing: Practicing Awareness. Sitting meditation is an intentional, focused practice of Awareness, but it's just the beginning. You also have to practice Awareness when you are not sitting down to meditate. You basically have to meditate/practice Awareness 24/7, no matter what you are doing, no matter how many thoughts come up and no matter how much you suffer mentally and physically. Practicing Awareness means simply observing your thoughts and compulsions (and also emotions, sensory perceptions, bodily sensations, pain etc., basically everything you experience) in a distanced and detached way. You have to realize that you ARE the observer/the Awareness that is free from all experience. YOU ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS AND COMPULSIONS. You are free from your thoughts, your thoughts just fool you into believing that they are real. Thoughts are just randomly generated bullshit, don't ever worry about them and don't ever think they are more than that. Never believe ANY thoughts. Do not identify with your thoughts and simply observe them from a distance. Your OCD will try to come up with all kinds of sneaky shit to draw you back into it, but NEVER give in to it, no matter what it says. Examples of sly tricks of OCD would be thoughts like "Meditation/Awareness doesn't work", "Your OCD will never go away" etc., but all these tricks only work because you let yourself get fooled by them, because you believe in them. You willingly give your power to these meaningless thoughts so that they can destroy you with it. See the absurdity in that. Also, never try to argue with thoughts, correct them, fight them, get rid of them etc., all of that is more tricks of OCD. You cannot solve OCD inside of the mind, only by stepping outside of the mind and observing it (Awareness). Intrusive thoughts and compulsions are randomly generated and you have absolutely no control over them whatsoever, but you have the power of being able to simply observe them, which will make you realize that you are not these thoughts, which will make them go away if you do it long enough. They only keep coming if they keep getting negative reactions from you. Fully accept and welcome all thoughts, no matter how strange or disturbing they may be. Never resist thoughts. Thoughts have no power over you as long as you don't give it to them. Never feel ashamed, disgusted or shocked by your thoughts, this fuels intrusive thoughts and compulsions immensely. Compulsions and intrusive thoughts thrive on your negative reactions to them. Simply observe them without being irritated by them. OCD is threatened by Meditation/Awareness, that's why it will try to keep you from practicing them. When you practice Meditation/Awareness, your OCD might try to draw you back into its grasp through anxiety and anxious reactions in the body: tension, racing heart, sweating, stomach/heart pain etc., don't identify with these uncomfortable bodily sensations either and also observe all of this in a detached way. It's all just the OCD trying to trick you and ruin your life. The fact that your OCD will try to keep you from meditating/practicing Awareness should be a clear signal to you that you are on the right path to overcoming it. Meditating and constantly practicing Awareness might be very hard at first, but don't be discouraged, it will become easier and easier with time, and your OCD and all its symptoms will gradually become better. Even if thoughts still come up, they will not bother you anymore, you will just see them for the random bullshit that they are. The end goal would be to remain in Awareness 24/7, which would make you completely invulnerable to all compulsions and intrusive thoughts. Also, as corny as it may sound, what's even more important than Meditation and constantly practicing Awareness is fully and unconditionally loving yourself and everybody else and everything else in the world, even the most evil shit you can imagine, even your intrusive thoughts and compulsions. Your world and life have to become completely filled with Love. Negativity and suffering can only thrive where there is a lack of Love. Love repels negativity and suffering like oil repels water. You WILL get through this if you follow my advice consequently for a long enough time, please trust me for your own sake. Wishing you all the best and much love my friend. 😊❤
YES! People say not to self-diagnose, but the moment I found out about Pure O was so amazing. It wasn't like, oh my gosh, I'm sooo OCD because I like to organize my colored pencils in rainbow order. It was like, no one ever talked about anything remotely similar to what I was feeling. And then, after 1 1/2 years from the time of onset (which is unfortunately an extremely short amount of time compared to other sufferers), I heard about Pure O and it was such a moment of clarity, like I didn't need to keep searching anymore. I just knew what I had.
It’s true how much of a difference it really is to finally find out it’s a mental illness and that you aren’t some kind of pervert or evil person. Luckily my mother is the one who researched what it was and told me because I was sleeping my days away because when I slept I wouldn’t have to deal with the thoughts.
If you have OCD (compulsions and/or intrusive thoughts), do the following practice and your compulsions and intrusive thoughts WILL 100% get better and most likely even completely vanish if you apply this advice for long enough, you have to do this if you want to get better, there is no way around it: Meditate daily, ideally 30-60+ minutes, but you can start with 5+ minutes and work your way up. I recommend Vipassana meditation, which simply means putting your attention on the bodily sensations of breathing. Meditation is essentially about one thing: Practicing Awareness. Sitting meditation is an intentional, focused practice of Awareness, but it's just the beginning. You also have to practice Awareness when you are not sitting down to meditate. You basically have to meditate/practice Awareness 24/7, no matter what you are doing, no matter how many thoughts come up and no matter how much you suffer mentally and physically. Practicing Awareness means simply observing your thoughts and compulsions (and also emotions, sensory perceptions, bodily sensations, pain etc., basically everything you experience) in a distanced and detached way. You have to realize that you ARE the observer/the Awareness that is free from all experience. YOU ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS AND COMPULSIONS. You are free from your thoughts, your thoughts just fool you into believing that they are real. Thoughts are just randomly generated bullshit, don't ever worry about them and don't ever think they are more than that. Never believe ANY thoughts. Do not identify with your thoughts and simply observe them from a distance. Your OCD will try to come up with all kinds of sneaky shit to draw you back into it, but NEVER give in to it, no matter what it says. Examples of sly tricks of OCD would be thoughts like "Meditation/Awareness doesn't work", "Your OCD will never go away" etc., but all these tricks only work because you let yourself get fooled by them, because you believe in them. You willingly give your power to these meaningless thoughts so that they can destroy you with it. See the absurdity in that. Also, never try to argue with thoughts, correct them, fight them, get rid of them etc., all of that is more tricks of OCD. You cannot solve OCD inside of the mind, only by stepping outside of the mind and observing it (Awareness). Intrusive thoughts and compulsions are randomly generated and you have absolutely no control over them whatsoever, but you have the power of being able to simply observe them, which will make you realize that you are not these thoughts, which will make them go away if you do it long enough. They only keep coming if they keep getting negative reactions from you. Fully accept and welcome all thoughts, no matter how strange or disturbing they may be. Never resist thoughts. Thoughts have no power over you as long as you don't give it to them. Never feel ashamed, disgusted or shocked by your thoughts, this fuels intrusive thoughts and compulsions immensely. Compulsions and intrusive thoughts thrive on your negative reactions to them. Simply observe them without being irritated by them. OCD is threatened by Meditation/Awareness, that's why it will try to keep you from practicing them. When you practice Meditation/Awareness, your OCD might try to draw you back into its grasp through anxiety and anxious reactions in the body: tension, racing heart, sweating, stomach/heart pain etc., don't identify with these uncomfortable bodily sensations either and also observe all of this in a detached way. It's all just the OCD trying to trick you and ruin your life. The fact that your OCD will try to keep you from meditating/practicing Awareness should be a clear signal to you that you are on the right path to overcoming it. Meditating and constantly practicing Awareness might be very hard at first, but don't be discouraged, it will become easier and easier with time, and your OCD and all its symptoms will gradually become better. Even if thoughts still come up, they will not bother you anymore, you will just see them for the random bullshit that they are. The end goal would be to remain in Awareness 24/7, which would make you completely invulnerable to all compulsions and intrusive thoughts. Also, as corny as it may sound, what's even more important than Meditation and constantly practicing Awareness is fully and unconditionally loving yourself and everybody else and everything else in the world, even the most evil shit you can imagine, even your intrusive thoughts and compulsions. Your world and life have to become completely filled with Love. Negativity and suffering can only thrive where there is a lack of Love. Love repels negativity and suffering like oil repels water. You WILL get through this if you follow my advice consequently for a long enough time, please trust me for your own sake. Wishing you all the best and much love my friend. 😊❤
I have so much respect for George, he didn’t need to be open about his personal mental health issues but the fact that he has is just so inspiring. He’s such a talented, genuine and lovely guy that I hope he finds peace with this illness and manages to deal with it daily without being reminded of it. The love I have for him is something else, what a man 💛
It’s crazy because before even being diagnosed with pure O I loved listening to George Ezra, then after experiencing my lowest low and almost not making it back from it I found an article with him sharing his experience with it. I was shook to say the least, knowing an artist I jam to endures the same shit and I didn’t even know it. So much love to all y’all in the comment section♥️♥️
I'm in my 60s now and I had this for about 3 years from 16 to 19. For me it went back in its box when I got away from home and went to uni. I was so busy, so happy, that I started to forget. It never came back. Not everyone can have such a major life saving change I know. Years later, I heard about a Zen exercise. It's simple, "go away - and don't think about the tiger". Everyone thinks about the tiger ... I can see how TM puts the tiger back in its cage. A brave broadcast.
Great respect for everybody who's opening up like this! ❤️❤️❤️ This is a topic that should be discussed a lot more in public. It would stop the feeling of guilt and shame, each OCD sufferer has.
I suffer from pure ocd myself. I didn't realise until my 20s that what I had was intrusive thoughts. CBT has really helped me though :) hope it gets more awareness x
@@robertnettleship5467 I feel like I got kind of lucky, I have ocd, mine mostly occurs in my thought process. It's always intrusive but I went to CBT since I was 12. I'm 17 now, its helped a lot.
@@Eden68161 I hope by CBT, you both mean ERP (Exposure and Response Prevention Therapy). Regular CBT usually makes OCD worse, not better, because it provides reassurance and encourages mental compulsions like thought suppression and thought neutralization.
@@gymnasticsgirlie0647 It actually doesn't erp is literally the most common method amongst cbt therapists to treat ocd, as it's a literal form of cbt. bro-
I feel you brother ❤️ suffered for 18 years and didn’t know what was going on in my head it was like living hell. As soon as I was diagnosed my life changed. All the best George
His story of OCD could have come from my own mouth. The fear of telling someone about those thoughts is so great, it makes things worse. The graphic thoughts that keep repeating, and the social anxiety it creates. The depression it brings. The manic highs. The battle against self medication using alcohol and drugs to numb the mind. Tourettes in the form of physical and verbal ticks that i battle with myself to stop when they aggressively take hold. And the exhaustion, that's real killer. Every single day feeling like a whole week. It became so bad my mind reacted by going into fight or fight mode. For seven long years, from dawn till dusk, my senses were overloaded, I had vertigo continuously, became depersonalised from the world. My marriage ended. And yet, the day you have that moment of knowing you're not alone changes everything, it's amazing. But then came years of therapy and, as a last resort, medication, trying to put the pieces together about why my mind behaves this way. Trying to accept it's not going away yet unable to accept why it's even there. I was eventually diagnosed with Complex PTSD. My existence alone in my adult mind was a product of a lonely, loveless, bullied childhood. And while I am much better now, just a little stress triggers my mind into overdrive and I'm back again. I don't think I'll ever be in a relationship again, that's the pay off for living a life where getting through each day doesn't end with me not wanting to wake up. I'm happier and more settled than I've ever been though, and I'm grateful for that. And grateful I could write that down on a public post.
i really enjoyed george’s dialog on pure o. i’ve been in treatment for the last 8 months for pure o and meditation has helped me a ton. for me as well engaging with/producing art, self-love affirmations, and journaling have also been a huge help! to anyone dealing with pure o know you’re not alone & it does get better!
@@Bigdogstusks I took SSRI's. for me I didn't feel good until I understood myself. which came from intense introspecition and self love. SSRI's helped but wasn't the fix. I wish you luck in you journey :)
If you have OCD (compulsions and/or intrusive thoughts), do the following practice and your compulsions and intrusive thoughts WILL 100% get better and most likely even completely vanish if you apply this advice for long enough, you have to do this if you want to get better, there is no way around it: Meditate daily, ideally 30-60+ minutes, but you can start with 5+ minutes and work your way up. I recommend Vipassana meditation, which simply means putting your attention on the bodily sensations of breathing. Meditation is essentially about one thing: Practicing Awareness. Sitting meditation is an intentional, focused practice of Awareness, but it's just the beginning. You also have to practice Awareness when you are not sitting down to meditate. You basically have to meditate/practice Awareness 24/7, no matter what you are doing, no matter how many thoughts come up and no matter how much you suffer mentally and physically. Practicing Awareness means simply observing your thoughts and compulsions (and also emotions, sensory perceptions, bodily sensations, pain etc., basically everything you experience) in a distanced and detached way. You have to realize that you ARE the observer/the Awareness that is free from all experience. YOU ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS AND COMPULSIONS. You are free from your thoughts, your thoughts just fool you into believing that they are real. Thoughts are just randomly generated bullshit, don't ever worry about them and don't ever think they are more than that. Never believe ANY thoughts. Do not identify with your thoughts and simply observe them from a distance. Your OCD will try to come up with all kinds of sneaky shit to draw you back into it, but NEVER give in to it, no matter what it says. Examples of sly tricks of OCD would be thoughts like "Meditation/Awareness doesn't work", "Your OCD will never go away" etc., but all these tricks only work because you let yourself get fooled by them, because you believe in them. You willingly give your power to these meaningless thoughts so that they can destroy you with it. See the absurdity in that. Also, never try to argue with thoughts, correct them, fight them, get rid of them etc., all of that is more tricks of OCD. You cannot solve OCD inside of the mind, only by stepping outside of the mind and observing it (Awareness). Intrusive thoughts and compulsions are randomly generated and you have absolutely no control over them whatsoever, but you have the power of being able to simply observe them, which will make you realize that you are not these thoughts, which will make them go away if you do it long enough. They only keep coming if they keep getting negative reactions from you. Fully accept and welcome all thoughts, no matter how strange or disturbing they may be. Never resist thoughts. Thoughts have no power over you as long as you don't give it to them. Never feel ashamed, disgusted or shocked by your thoughts, this fuels intrusive thoughts and compulsions immensely. Compulsions and intrusive thoughts thrive on your negative reactions to them. Simply observe them without being irritated by them. OCD is threatened by Meditation/Awareness, that's why it will try to keep you from practicing them. When you practice Meditation/Awareness, your OCD might try to draw you back into its grasp through anxiety and anxious reactions in the body: tension, racing heart, sweating, stomach/heart pain etc., don't identify with these uncomfortable bodily sensations either and also observe all of this in a detached way. It's all just the OCD trying to trick you and ruin your life. The fact that your OCD will try to keep you from meditating/practicing Awareness should be a clear signal to you that you are on the right path to overcoming it. Meditating and constantly practicing Awareness might be very hard at first, but don't be discouraged, it will become easier and easier with time, and your OCD and all its symptoms will gradually become better. Even if thoughts still come up, they will not bother you anymore, you will just see them for the random bullshit that they are. The end goal would be to remain in Awareness 24/7, which would make you completely invulnerable to all compulsions and intrusive thoughts. Also, as corny as it may sound, what's even more important than Meditation and constantly practicing Awareness is fully and unconditionally loving yourself and everybody else and everything else in the world, even the most evil shit you can imagine, even your intrusive thoughts and compulsions. Your world and life have to become completely filled with Love. Negativity and suffering can only thrive where there is a lack of Love. Love repels negativity and suffering like oil repels water. You WILL get through this if you follow my advice consequently for a long enough time, please trust me for your own sake. Wishing you all the best and much love my friend. 😊❤
As a person who was currently completely stuck in my own thoughts, I found this video randomly by looking up stuff about Ezra. Reading this comment was something I really needed to hear to shake me out of what's going on inside my head and that these are just that. Thoughts. They don't have control over me and everything will be just fine. So thank you, kind stranger. 😊
I can see you wrote this comment awhile ago, everything you said is 100 per cent, if people apply what you say they will recover and you could potentially help hundreds of people, where ever you are, God bless you xx
I would like to add the idea that the part of the personality that comes up with the OCD thinking really isn’t bad or evil, it thinks that being vigilant to these worst case scenarios/ideas will help prevent bad stuff happening, but it happens to be so completely off the mark, so wrong in every single way, it’s an inevitable downward spiral, so you do everything this lovely soul recommends in these comments. That is, detach and be the observer. The true self, the wiser self - who you really are, and have always been. The other parts came about in response to earlier adversities experienced when younger. It’s not useful to judge these parts, which are weirdly enough just trying to help- this judgemental attitude only creates internal conflict and stress, and self judgement, which feeds the spiralling downwards. Accepting that the intention of this part is not bad, but so very misguided and strategically destructive, breaks the downward spiralling. We need to be calm and wise, and take leadership from this position of true self, as we would with a struggling and desperate child, or younger person taking a wrong path, and help them find a helpful path. It really is an attitude of kindness and love, self love, for all the parts that is the ultimate answer. I find this in meditation and mindfulness, as well as gratitude etc. Mantra is great. Chanting is my godsend (Krishna Das is a New Yorker with beautiful music and his own amazing journey). These ideas about the Self are from Internal Family Systems Therapy (Dr Richard Schwartz). He has written a book No Bad Parts. I hope this makes sense, and is helpful for someone. I love this thread! Thank you George for opening up this conversation. Very best to you all 🥰
It’s so important that someone like him, talks about it. All my life I thought something was wrong with me. After know that in my case was ADHD, everything changed. Thank you George to talk about it. You definitely can help others. 🙏🏼
Only just seen this.. thank you to George for being so open. It is incredibly helpful when celebrities do this and help crush the stigma that has been associated with mental health by confirming that mental health disorders are mere health conditions that are nothing at all to be ashamed of. I am sure we are actually in the majority rather than minority, if we asked every person in the UK. I too have OCD (contamination based) and the more we are able to open up and educate, the faster people will realise that there is no way it should be any more of a taboo subject than any physical, such as having a heart condition or a broken leg. I truly hope that I will see mental health being treated on a par with physical health within my lifetime. xx
This is ridiculous. How this amazing person could feel not worthy. Maybe it's because of high sensitivity. All the best for you Ezra! You are gifted and we wait for your music.
Hi George, you have helped a lot of people out there. I have OCD and you are letting people understand that they can live with Pure O or OCD and your experience of Meditation is so real. I have just learnt that you can meditate in many ways like being in the zone when you are performing a task or taking a swim or walk for example. Thank you for being You George 💜
You are helping so many people. I have had this over 53 years and is nice to know we are not alone and there are treatments for this. If I can suggest more there are many resources on TH-cam including the OCD Foundation. God Bless.
If you have OCD (compulsions and/or intrusive thoughts), do the following practice and your compulsions and intrusive thoughts WILL 100% get better and most likely even completely vanish if you apply this advice for long enough, you have to do this if you want to get better, there is no way around it: Meditate daily, ideally 30-60+ minutes, but you can start with 5+ minutes and work your way up. I recommend Vipassana meditation, which simply means putting your attention on the bodily sensations of breathing. Meditation is essentially about one thing: Practicing Awareness. Sitting meditation is an intentional, focused practice of Awareness, but it's just the beginning. You also have to practice Awareness when you are not sitting down to meditate. You basically have to meditate/practice Awareness 24/7, no matter what you are doing, no matter how many thoughts come up and no matter how much you suffer mentally and physically. Practicing Awareness means simply observing your thoughts and compulsions (and also emotions, sensory perceptions, bodily sensations, pain etc., basically everything you experience) in a distanced and detached way. You have to realize that you ARE the observer/the Awareness that is free from all experience. YOU ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS AND COMPULSIONS. You are free from your thoughts, your thoughts just fool you into believing that they are real. Thoughts are just randomly generated bullshit, don't ever worry about them and don't ever think they are more than that. Never believe ANY thoughts. Do not identify with your thoughts and simply observe them from a distance. Your OCD will try to come up with all kinds of sneaky shit to draw you back into it, but NEVER give in to it, no matter what it says. Examples of sly tricks of OCD would be thoughts like "Meditation/Awareness doesn't work", "Your OCD will never go away" etc., but all these tricks only work because you let yourself get fooled by them, because you believe in them. You willingly give your power to these meaningless thoughts so that they can destroy you with it. See the absurdity in that. Also, never try to argue with thoughts, correct them, fight them, get rid of them etc., all of that is more tricks of OCD. You cannot solve OCD inside of the mind, only by stepping outside of the mind and observing it (Awareness). Intrusive thoughts and compulsions are randomly generated and you have absolutely no control over them whatsoever, but you have the power of being able to simply observe them, which will make you realize that you are not these thoughts, which will make them go away if you do it long enough. They only keep coming if they keep getting negative reactions from you. Fully accept and welcome all thoughts, no matter how strange or disturbing they may be. Never resist thoughts. Thoughts have no power over you as long as you don't give it to them. Never feel ashamed, disgusted or shocked by your thoughts, this fuels intrusive thoughts and compulsions immensely. Compulsions and intrusive thoughts thrive on your negative reactions to them. Simply observe them without being irritated by them. OCD is threatened by Meditation/Awareness, that's why it will try to keep you from practicing them. When you practice Meditation/Awareness, your OCD might try to draw you back into its grasp through anxiety and anxious reactions in the body: tension, racing heart, sweating, stomach/heart pain etc., don't identify with these uncomfortable bodily sensations either and also observe all of this in a detached way. It's all just the OCD trying to trick you and ruin your life. The fact that your OCD will try to keep you from meditating/practicing Awareness should be a clear signal to you that you are on the right path to overcoming it. Meditating and constantly practicing Awareness might be very hard at first, but don't be discouraged, it will become easier and easier with time, and your OCD and all its symptoms will gradually become better. Even if thoughts still come up, they will not bother you anymore, you will just see them for the random bullshit that they are. The end goal would be to remain in Awareness 24/7, which would make you completely invulnerable to all compulsions and intrusive thoughts. Also, as corny as it may sound, what's even more important than Meditation and constantly practicing Awareness is fully and unconditionally loving yourself and everybody else and everything else in the world, even the most evil shit you can imagine, even your intrusive thoughts and compulsions. Your world and life have to become completely filled with Love. Negativity and suffering can only thrive where there is a lack of Love. Love repels negativity and suffering like oil repels water. You WILL get through this if you follow my advice consequently for a long enough time, please trust me for your own sake. Wishing you all the best and much love my friend. 😊❤
I love it when celebrities feel comfortable to open up about how they feel and they don’t realise how that 6 minute video on TH-cam will actually help some people, it’s even helped me a bit. Thank you George Ezra 💚
If you have OCD (compulsions and/or intrusive thoughts), do the following practice and your compulsions and intrusive thoughts WILL 100% get better and most likely even completely vanish if you apply this advice for long enough, you have to do this if you want to get better, there is no way around it: Meditate daily, ideally 30-60+ minutes, but you can start with 5+ minutes and work your way up. I recommend Vipassana meditation, which simply means putting your attention on the bodily sensations of breathing. Meditation is essentially about one thing: Practicing Awareness. Sitting meditation is an intentional, focused practice of Awareness, but it's just the beginning. You also have to practice Awareness when you are not sitting down to meditate. You basically have to meditate/practice Awareness 24/7, no matter what you are doing, no matter how many thoughts come up and no matter how much you suffer mentally and physically. Practicing Awareness means simply observing your thoughts and compulsions (and also emotions, sensory perceptions, bodily sensations, pain etc., basically everything you experience) in a distanced and detached way. You have to realize that you ARE the observer/the Awareness that is free from all experience. YOU ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS AND COMPULSIONS. You are free from your thoughts, your thoughts just fool you into believing that they are real. Thoughts are just randomly generated bullshit, don't ever worry about them and don't ever think they are more than that. Never believe ANY thoughts. Do not identify with your thoughts and simply observe them from a distance. Your OCD will try to come up with all kinds of sneaky shit to draw you back into it, but NEVER give in to it, no matter what it says. Examples of sly tricks of OCD would be thoughts like "Meditation/Awareness doesn't work", "Your OCD will never go away" etc., but all these tricks only work because you let yourself get fooled by them, because you believe in them. You willingly give your power to these meaningless thoughts so that they can destroy you with it. See the absurdity in that. Also, never try to argue with thoughts, correct them, fight them, get rid of them etc., all of that is more tricks of OCD. You cannot solve OCD inside of the mind, only by stepping outside of the mind and observing it (Awareness). Intrusive thoughts and compulsions are randomly generated and you have absolutely no control over them whatsoever, but you have the power of being able to simply observe them, which will make you realize that you are not these thoughts, which will make them go away if you do it long enough. They only keep coming if they keep getting negative reactions from you. Fully accept and welcome all thoughts, no matter how strange or disturbing they may be. Never resist thoughts. Thoughts have no power over you as long as you don't give it to them. Never feel ashamed, disgusted or shocked by your thoughts, this fuels intrusive thoughts and compulsions immensely. Compulsions and intrusive thoughts thrive on your negative reactions to them. Simply observe them without being irritated by them. OCD is threatened by Meditation/Awareness, that's why it will try to keep you from practicing them. When you practice Meditation/Awareness, your OCD might try to draw you back into its grasp through anxiety and anxious reactions in the body: tension, racing heart, sweating, stomach/heart pain etc., don't identify with these uncomfortable bodily sensations either and also observe all of this in a detached way. It's all just the OCD trying to trick you and ruin your life. The fact that your OCD will try to keep you from meditating/practicing Awareness should be a clear signal to you that you are on the right path to overcoming it. Meditating and constantly practicing Awareness might be very hard at first, but don't be discouraged, it will become easier and easier with time, and your OCD and all its symptoms will gradually become better. Even if thoughts still come up, they will not bother you anymore, you will just see them for the random bullshit that they are. The end goal would be to remain in Awareness 24/7, which would make you completely invulnerable to all compulsions and intrusive thoughts. Also, as corny as it may sound, what's even more important than Meditation and constantly practicing Awareness is fully and unconditionally loving yourself and everybody else and everything else in the world, even the most evil shit you can imagine, even your intrusive thoughts and compulsions. Your world and life have to become completely filled with Love. Negativity and suffering can only thrive where there is a lack of Love. Love repels negativity and suffering like oil repels water. You WILL get through this if you follow my advice consequently for a long enough time, please trust me for your own sake. Wishing you all the best and much love my friend. 😊❤
If you have OCD (compulsions and/or intrusive thoughts), do the following practice and your compulsions and intrusive thoughts WILL 100% get better and most likely even completely vanish if you apply this advice for long enough, you have to do this if you want to get better, there is no way around it: Meditate daily, ideally 30-60+ minutes, but you can start with 5+ minutes and work your way up. I recommend Vipassana meditation, which simply means putting your attention on the bodily sensations of breathing. Meditation is essentially about one thing: Practicing Awareness. Sitting meditation is an intentional, focused practice of Awareness, but it's just the beginning. You also have to practice Awareness when you are not sitting down to meditate. You basically have to meditate/practice Awareness 24/7, no matter what you are doing, no matter how many thoughts come up and no matter how much you suffer mentally and physically. Practicing Awareness means simply observing your thoughts and compulsions (and also emotions, sensory perceptions, bodily sensations, pain etc., basically everything you experience) in a distanced and detached way. You have to realize that you ARE the observer/the Awareness that is free from all experience. YOU ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS AND COMPULSIONS. You are free from your thoughts, your thoughts just fool you into believing that they are real. Thoughts are just randomly generated bullshit, don't ever worry about them and don't ever think they are more than that. Never believe ANY thoughts. Do not identify with your thoughts and simply observe them from a distance. Your OCD will try to come up with all kinds of sneaky shit to draw you back into it, but NEVER give in to it, no matter what it says. Examples of sly tricks of OCD would be thoughts like "Meditation/Awareness doesn't work", "Your OCD will never go away" etc., but all these tricks only work because you let yourself get fooled by them, because you believe in them. You willingly give your power to these meaningless thoughts so that they can destroy you with it. See the absurdity in that. Also, never try to argue with thoughts, correct them, fight them, get rid of them etc., all of that is more tricks of OCD. You cannot solve OCD inside of the mind, only by stepping outside of the mind and observing it (Awareness). Intrusive thoughts and compulsions are randomly generated and you have absolutely no control over them whatsoever, but you have the power of being able to simply observe them, which will make you realize that you are not these thoughts, which will make them go away if you do it long enough. They only keep coming if they keep getting negative reactions from you. Fully accept and welcome all thoughts, no matter how strange or disturbing they may be. Never resist thoughts. Thoughts have no power over you as long as you don't give it to them. Never feel ashamed, disgusted or shocked by your thoughts, this fuels intrusive thoughts and compulsions immensely. Compulsions and intrusive thoughts thrive on your negative reactions to them. Simply observe them without being irritated by them. OCD is threatened by Meditation/Awareness, that's why it will try to keep you from practicing them. When you practice Meditation/Awareness, your OCD might try to draw you back into its grasp through anxiety and anxious reactions in the body: tension, racing heart, sweating, stomach/heart pain etc., don't identify with these uncomfortable bodily sensations either and also observe all of this in a detached way. It's all just the OCD trying to trick you and ruin your life. The fact that your OCD will try to keep you from meditating/practicing Awareness should be a clear signal to you that you are on the right path to overcoming it. Meditating and constantly practicing Awareness might be very hard at first, but don't be discouraged, it will become easier and easier with time, and your OCD and all its symptoms will gradually become better. Even if thoughts still come up, they will not bother you anymore, you will just see them for the random bullshit that they are. The end goal would be to remain in Awareness 24/7, which would make you completely invulnerable to all compulsions and intrusive thoughts. Also, as corny as it may sound, what's even more important than Meditation and constantly practicing Awareness is fully and unconditionally loving yourself and everybody else and everything else in the world, even the most evil shit you can imagine, even your intrusive thoughts and compulsions. Your world and life have to become completely filled with Love. Negativity and suffering can only thrive where there is a lack of Love. Love repels negativity and suffering like oil repels water. You WILL get through this if you follow my advice consequently for a long enough time, please trust me for your own sake. Wishing you all the best and much love my friend. 😊❤
If you have OCD (compulsions and/or intrusive thoughts), do the following practice and your compulsions and intrusive thoughts WILL 100% get better and most likely even completely vanish if you apply this advice for long enough, you have to do this if you want to get better, there is no way around it: Meditate daily, ideally 30-60+ minutes, but you can start with 5+ minutes and work your way up. I recommend Vipassana meditation, which simply means putting your attention on the bodily sensations of breathing. Meditation is essentially about one thing: Practicing Awareness. Sitting meditation is an intentional, focused practice of Awareness, but it's just the beginning. You also have to practice Awareness when you are not sitting down to meditate. You basically have to meditate/practice Awareness 24/7, no matter what you are doing, no matter how many thoughts come up and no matter how much you suffer mentally and physically. Practicing Awareness means simply observing your thoughts and compulsions (and also emotions, sensory perceptions, bodily sensations, pain etc., basically everything you experience) in a distanced and detached way. You have to realize that you ARE the observer/the Awareness that is free from all experience. YOU ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS AND COMPULSIONS. You are free from your thoughts, your thoughts just fool you into believing that they are real. Thoughts are just randomly generated bullshit, don't ever worry about them and don't ever think they are more than that. Never believe ANY thoughts. Do not identify with your thoughts and simply observe them from a distance. Your OCD will try to come up with all kinds of sneaky shit to draw you back into it, but NEVER give in to it, no matter what it says. Examples of sly tricks of OCD would be thoughts like "Meditation/Awareness doesn't work", "Your OCD will never go away" etc., but all these tricks only work because you let yourself get fooled by them, because you believe in them. You willingly give your power to these meaningless thoughts so that they can destroy you with it. See the absurdity in that. Also, never try to argue with thoughts, correct them, fight them, get rid of them etc., all of that is more tricks of OCD. You cannot solve OCD inside of the mind, only by stepping outside of the mind and observing it (Awareness). Intrusive thoughts and compulsions are randomly generated and you have absolutely no control over them whatsoever, but you have the power of being able to simply observe them, which will make you realize that you are not these thoughts, which will make them go away if you do it long enough. They only keep coming if they keep getting negative reactions from you. Fully accept and welcome all thoughts, no matter how strange or disturbing they may be. Never resist thoughts. Thoughts have no power over you as long as you don't give it to them. Never feel ashamed, disgusted or shocked by your thoughts, this fuels intrusive thoughts and compulsions immensely. Compulsions and intrusive thoughts thrive on your negative reactions to them. Simply observe them without being irritated by them. OCD is threatened by Meditation/Awareness, that's why it will try to keep you from practicing them. When you practice Meditation/Awareness, your OCD might try to draw you back into its grasp through anxiety and anxious reactions in the body: tension, racing heart, sweating, stomach/heart pain etc., don't identify with these uncomfortable bodily sensations either and also observe all of this in a detached way. It's all just the OCD trying to trick you and ruin your life. The fact that your OCD will try to keep you from meditating/practicing Awareness should be a clear signal to you that you are on the right path to overcoming it. Meditating and constantly practicing Awareness might be very hard at first, but don't be discouraged, it will become easier and easier with time, and your OCD and all its symptoms will gradually become better. Even if thoughts still come up, they will not bother you anymore, you will just see them for the random bullshit that they are. The end goal would be to remain in Awareness 24/7, which would make you completely invulnerable to all compulsions and intrusive thoughts. Also, as corny as it may sound, what's even more important than Meditation and constantly practicing Awareness is fully and unconditionally loving yourself and everybody else and everything else in the world, even the most evil shit you can imagine, even your intrusive thoughts and compulsions. Your world and life have to become completely filled with Love. Negativity and suffering can only thrive where there is a lack of Love. Love repels negativity and suffering like oil repels water. You WILL get through this if you follow my advice consequently for a long enough time, please trust me for your own sake. Wishing you all the best and much love my friend. 😊❤
@@Em-un8gw If you have OCD (compulsions and/or intrusive thoughts), do the following practice and your compulsions and intrusive thoughts WILL 100% get better and most likely even completely vanish if you apply this advice for long enough, you have to do this if you want to get better, there is no way around it: Meditate daily, ideally 30-60+ minutes, but you can start with 5+ minutes and work your way up. I recommend Vipassana meditation, which simply means putting your attention on the bodily sensations of breathing. Meditation is essentially about one thing: Practicing Awareness. Sitting meditation is an intentional, focused practice of Awareness, but it's just the beginning. You also have to practice Awareness when you are not sitting down to meditate. You basically have to meditate/practice Awareness 24/7, no matter what you are doing, no matter how many thoughts come up and no matter how much you suffer mentally and physically. Practicing Awareness means simply observing your thoughts and compulsions (and also emotions, sensory perceptions, bodily sensations, pain etc., basically everything you experience) in a distanced and detached way. You have to realize that you ARE the observer/the Awareness that is free from all experience. YOU ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS AND COMPULSIONS. You are free from your thoughts, your thoughts just fool you into believing that they are real. Thoughts are just randomly generated bullshit, don't ever worry about them and don't ever think they are more than that. Never believe ANY thoughts. Do not identify with your thoughts and simply observe them from a distance. Your OCD will try to come up with all kinds of sneaky shit to draw you back into it, but NEVER give in to it, no matter what it says. Examples of sly tricks of OCD would be thoughts like "Meditation/Awareness doesn't work", "Your OCD will never go away" etc., but all these tricks only work because you let yourself get fooled by them, because you believe in them. You willingly give your power to these meaningless thoughts so that they can destroy you with it. See the absurdity in that. Also, never try to argue with thoughts, correct them, fight them, get rid of them etc., all of that is more tricks of OCD. You cannot solve OCD inside of the mind, only by stepping outside of the mind and observing it (Awareness). Intrusive thoughts and compulsions are randomly generated and you have absolutely no control over them whatsoever, but you have the power of being able to simply observe them, which will make you realize that you are not these thoughts, which will make them go away if you do it long enough. They only keep coming if they keep getting negative reactions from you. Fully accept and welcome all thoughts, no matter how strange or disturbing they may be. Never resist thoughts. Thoughts have no power over you as long as you don't give it to them. Never feel ashamed, disgusted or shocked by your thoughts, this fuels intrusive thoughts and compulsions immensely. Compulsions and intrusive thoughts thrive on your negative reactions to them. Simply observe them without being irritated by them. OCD is threatened by Meditation/Awareness, that's why it will try to keep you from practicing them. When you practice Meditation/Awareness, your OCD might try to draw you back into its grasp through anxiety and anxious reactions in the body: tension, racing heart, sweating, stomach/heart pain etc., don't identify with these uncomfortable bodily sensations either and also observe all of this in a detached way. It's all just the OCD trying to trick you and ruin your life. The fact that your OCD will try to keep you from meditating/practicing Awareness should be a clear signal to you that you are on the right path to overcoming it. Meditating and constantly practicing Awareness might be very hard at first, but don't be discouraged, it will become easier and easier with time, and your OCD and all its symptoms will gradually become better. Even if thoughts still come up, they will not bother you anymore, you will just see them for the random bullshit that they are. The end goal would be to remain in Awareness 24/7, which would make you completely invulnerable to all compulsions and intrusive thoughts. Also, as corny as it may sound, what's even more important than Meditation and constantly practicing Awareness is fully and unconditionally loving yourself and everybody else and everything else in the world, even the most evil shit you can imagine, even your intrusive thoughts and compulsions. Your world and life have to become completely filled with Love. Negativity and suffering can only thrive where there is a lack of Love. Love repels negativity and suffering like oil repels water. You WILL get through this if you follow my advice consequently for a long enough time, please trust me for your own sake. Wishing you all the best and much love my friend. 😊❤
I started getting those thoughts after going to study music production about a year ago, and hanging around with people who had "given up" on life. i slowly started to feel depressed, and more and more weird annoying thoughts started piling into my head until, as george said "whats the worse thing that I could think": but its more like a feeling i get before the thoughts come in, but tbh I'm over it, a lot of the thoughts can be pretty funny in a dark humoured sense but when they started to come it was really scary.
If you have OCD (compulsions and/or intrusive thoughts), do the following practice and your compulsions and intrusive thoughts WILL 100% get better and most likely even completely vanish if you apply this advice for long enough, you have to do this if you want to get better, there is no way around it: Meditate daily, ideally 30-60+ minutes, but you can start with 5+ minutes and work your way up. I recommend Vipassana meditation, which simply means putting your attention on the bodily sensations of breathing. Meditation is essentially about one thing: Practicing Awareness. Sitting meditation is an intentional, focused practice of Awareness, but it's just the beginning. You also have to practice Awareness when you are not sitting down to meditate. You basically have to meditate/practice Awareness 24/7, no matter what you are doing, no matter how many thoughts come up and no matter how much you suffer mentally and physically. Practicing Awareness means simply observing your thoughts and compulsions (and also emotions, sensory perceptions, bodily sensations, pain etc., basically everything you experience) in a distanced and detached way. You have to realize that you ARE the observer/the Awareness that is free from all experience. YOU ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS AND COMPULSIONS. You are free from your thoughts, your thoughts just fool you into believing that they are real. Thoughts are just randomly generated bullshit, don't ever worry about them and don't ever think they are more than that. Never believe ANY thoughts. Do not identify with your thoughts and simply observe them from a distance. Your OCD will try to come up with all kinds of sneaky shit to draw you back into it, but NEVER give in to it, no matter what it says. Examples of sly tricks of OCD would be thoughts like "Meditation/Awareness doesn't work", "Your OCD will never go away" etc., but all these tricks only work because you let yourself get fooled by them, because you believe in them. You willingly give your power to these meaningless thoughts so that they can destroy you with it. See the absurdity in that. Also, never try to argue with thoughts, correct them, fight them, get rid of them etc., all of that is more tricks of OCD. You cannot solve OCD inside of the mind, only by stepping outside of the mind and observing it (Awareness). Intrusive thoughts and compulsions are randomly generated and you have absolutely no control over them whatsoever, but you have the power of being able to simply observe them, which will make you realize that you are not these thoughts, which will make them go away if you do it long enough. They only keep coming if they keep getting negative reactions from you. Fully accept and welcome all thoughts, no matter how strange or disturbing they may be. Never resist thoughts. Thoughts have no power over you as long as you don't give it to them. Never feel ashamed, disgusted or shocked by your thoughts, this fuels intrusive thoughts and compulsions immensely. Compulsions and intrusive thoughts thrive on your negative reactions to them. Simply observe them without being irritated by them. OCD is threatened by Meditation/Awareness, that's why it will try to keep you from practicing them. When you practice Meditation/Awareness, your OCD might try to draw you back into its grasp through anxiety and anxious reactions in the body: tension, racing heart, sweating, stomach/heart pain etc., don't identify with these uncomfortable bodily sensations either and also observe all of this in a detached way. It's all just the OCD trying to trick you and ruin your life. The fact that your OCD will try to keep you from meditating/practicing Awareness should be a clear signal to you that you are on the right path to overcoming it. Meditating and constantly practicing Awareness might be very hard at first, but don't be discouraged, it will become easier and easier with time, and your OCD and all its symptoms will gradually become better. Even if thoughts still come up, they will not bother you anymore, you will just see them for the random bullshit that they are. The end goal would be to remain in Awareness 24/7, which would make you completely invulnerable to all compulsions and intrusive thoughts. Also, as corny as it may sound, what's even more important than Meditation and constantly practicing Awareness is fully and unconditionally loving yourself and everybody else and everything else in the world, even the most evil shit you can imagine, even your intrusive thoughts and compulsions. Your world and life have to become completely filled with Love. Negativity and suffering can only thrive where there is a lack of Love. Love repels negativity and suffering like oil repels water. You WILL get through this if you follow my advice consequently for a long enough time, please trust me for your own sake. Wishing you all the best and much love my friend. 😊❤
If you have OCD (compulsions and/or intrusive thoughts), do the following practice and your compulsions and intrusive thoughts WILL 100% get better and most likely even completely vanish if you apply this advice for long enough, you have to do this if you want to get better, there is no way around it: Meditate daily, ideally 30-60+ minutes, but you can start with 5+ minutes and work your way up. I recommend Vipassana meditation, which simply means putting your attention on the bodily sensations of breathing. Meditation is essentially about one thing: Practicing Awareness. Sitting meditation is an intentional, focused practice of Awareness, but it's just the beginning. You also have to practice Awareness when you are not sitting down to meditate. You basically have to meditate/practice Awareness 24/7, no matter what you are doing, no matter how many thoughts come up and no matter how much you suffer mentally and physically. Practicing Awareness means simply observing your thoughts and compulsions (and also emotions, sensory perceptions, bodily sensations, pain etc., basically everything you experience) in a distanced and detached way. You have to realize that you ARE the observer/the Awareness that is free from all experience. YOU ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS AND COMPULSIONS. You are free from your thoughts, your thoughts just fool you into believing that they are real. Thoughts are just randomly generated bullshit, don't ever worry about them and don't ever think they are more than that. Never believe ANY thoughts. Do not identify with your thoughts and simply observe them from a distance. Your OCD will try to come up with all kinds of sneaky shit to draw you back into it, but NEVER give in to it, no matter what it says. Examples of sly tricks of OCD would be thoughts like "Meditation/Awareness doesn't work", "Your OCD will never go away" etc., but all these tricks only work because you let yourself get fooled by them, because you believe in them. You willingly give your power to these meaningless thoughts so that they can destroy you with it. See the absurdity in that. Also, never try to argue with thoughts, correct them, fight them, get rid of them etc., all of that is more tricks of OCD. You cannot solve OCD inside of the mind, only by stepping outside of the mind and observing it (Awareness). Intrusive thoughts and compulsions are randomly generated and you have absolutely no control over them whatsoever, but you have the power of being able to simply observe them, which will make you realize that you are not these thoughts, which will make them go away if you do it long enough. They only keep coming if they keep getting negative reactions from you. Fully accept and welcome all thoughts, no matter how strange or disturbing they may be. Never resist thoughts. Thoughts have no power over you as long as you don't give it to them. Never feel ashamed, disgusted or shocked by your thoughts, this fuels intrusive thoughts and compulsions immensely. Compulsions and intrusive thoughts thrive on your negative reactions to them. Simply observe them without being irritated by them. OCD is threatened by Meditation/Awareness, that's why it will try to keep you from practicing them. When you practice Meditation/Awareness, your OCD might try to draw you back into its grasp through anxiety and anxious reactions in the body: tension, racing heart, sweating, stomach/heart pain etc., don't identify with these uncomfortable bodily sensations either and also observe all of this in a detached way. It's all just the OCD trying to trick you and ruin your life. The fact that your OCD will try to keep you from meditating/practicing Awareness should be a clear signal to you that you are on the right path to overcoming it. Meditating and constantly practicing Awareness might be very hard at first, but don't be discouraged, it will become easier and easier with time, and your OCD and all its symptoms will gradually become better. Even if thoughts still come up, they will not bother you anymore, you will just see them for the random bullshit that they are. The end goal would be to remain in Awareness 24/7, which would make you completely invulnerable to all compulsions and intrusive thoughts. Also, as corny as it may sound, what's even more important than Meditation and constantly practicing Awareness is fully and unconditionally loving yourself and everybody else and everything else in the world, even the most evil shit you can imagine, even your intrusive thoughts and compulsions. Your world and life have to become completely filled with Love. Negativity and suffering can only thrive where there is a lack of Love. Love repels negativity and suffering like oil repels water. You WILL get through this if you follow my advice consequently for a long enough time, please trust me for your own sake. Wishing you all the best and much love my friend. 😊❤
@@Em-un8gw If you have OCD (compulsions and/or intrusive thoughts), do the following practice and your compulsions and intrusive thoughts WILL 100% get better and most likely even completely vanish if you apply this advice for long enough, you have to do this if you want to get better, there is no way around it: Meditate daily, ideally 30-60+ minutes, but you can start with 5+ minutes and work your way up. I recommend Vipassana meditation, which simply means putting your attention on the bodily sensations of breathing. Meditation is essentially about one thing: Practicing Awareness. Sitting meditation is an intentional, focused practice of Awareness, but it's just the beginning. You also have to practice Awareness when you are not sitting down to meditate. You basically have to meditate/practice Awareness 24/7, no matter what you are doing, no matter how many thoughts come up and no matter how much you suffer mentally and physically. Practicing Awareness means simply observing your thoughts and compulsions (and also emotions, sensory perceptions, bodily sensations, pain etc., basically everything you experience) in a distanced and detached way. You have to realize that you ARE the observer/the Awareness that is free from all experience. YOU ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS AND COMPULSIONS. You are free from your thoughts, your thoughts just fool you into believing that they are real. Thoughts are just randomly generated bullshit, don't ever worry about them and don't ever think they are more than that. Never believe ANY thoughts. Do not identify with your thoughts and simply observe them from a distance. Your OCD will try to come up with all kinds of sneaky shit to draw you back into it, but NEVER give in to it, no matter what it says. Examples of sly tricks of OCD would be thoughts like "Meditation/Awareness doesn't work", "Your OCD will never go away" etc., but all these tricks only work because you let yourself get fooled by them, because you believe in them. You willingly give your power to these meaningless thoughts so that they can destroy you with it. See the absurdity in that. Also, never try to argue with thoughts, correct them, fight them, get rid of them etc., all of that is more tricks of OCD. You cannot solve OCD inside of the mind, only by stepping outside of the mind and observing it (Awareness). Intrusive thoughts and compulsions are randomly generated and you have absolutely no control over them whatsoever, but you have the power of being able to simply observe them, which will make you realize that you are not these thoughts, which will make them go away if you do it long enough. They only keep coming if they keep getting negative reactions from you. Fully accept and welcome all thoughts, no matter how strange or disturbing they may be. Never resist thoughts. Thoughts have no power over you as long as you don't give it to them. Never feel ashamed, disgusted or shocked by your thoughts, this fuels intrusive thoughts and compulsions immensely. Compulsions and intrusive thoughts thrive on your negative reactions to them. Simply observe them without being irritated by them. OCD is threatened by Meditation/Awareness, that's why it will try to keep you from practicing them. When you practice Meditation/Awareness, your OCD might try to draw you back into its grasp through anxiety and anxious reactions in the body: tension, racing heart, sweating, stomach/heart pain etc., don't identify with these uncomfortable bodily sensations either and also observe all of this in a detached way. It's all just the OCD trying to trick you and ruin your life. The fact that your OCD will try to keep you from meditating/practicing Awareness should be a clear signal to you that you are on the right path to overcoming it. Meditating and constantly practicing Awareness might be very hard at first, but don't be discouraged, it will become easier and easier with time, and your OCD and all its symptoms will gradually become better. Even if thoughts still come up, they will not bother you anymore, you will just see them for the random bullshit that they are. The end goal would be to remain in Awareness 24/7, which would make you completely invulnerable to all compulsions and intrusive thoughts. Also, as corny as it may sound, what's even more important than Meditation and constantly practicing Awareness is fully and unconditionally loving yourself and everybody else and everything else in the world, even the most evil shit you can imagine, even your intrusive thoughts and compulsions. Your world and life have to become completely filled with Love. Negativity and suffering can only thrive where there is a lack of Love. Love repels negativity and suffering like oil repels water. You WILL get through this if you follow my advice consequently for a long enough time, please trust me for your own sake. Wishing you all the best and much love my friend. 😊❤
If you have OCD (compulsions and/or intrusive thoughts), do the following practice and your compulsions and intrusive thoughts WILL 100% get better and most likely even completely vanish if you apply this advice for long enough, you have to do this if you want to get better, there is no way around it: Meditate daily, ideally 30-60+ minutes, but you can start with 5+ minutes and work your way up. I recommend Vipassana meditation, which simply means putting your attention on the bodily sensations of breathing. Meditation is essentially about one thing: Practicing Awareness. Sitting meditation is an intentional, focused practice of Awareness, but it's just the beginning. You also have to practice Awareness when you are not sitting down to meditate. You basically have to meditate/practice Awareness 24/7, no matter what you are doing, no matter how many thoughts come up and no matter how much you suffer mentally and physically. Practicing Awareness means simply observing your thoughts and compulsions (and also emotions, sensory perceptions, bodily sensations, pain etc., basically everything you experience) in a distanced and detached way. You have to realize that you ARE the observer/the Awareness that is free from all experience. YOU ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS AND COMPULSIONS. You are free from your thoughts, your thoughts just fool you into believing that they are real. Thoughts are just randomly generated bullshit, don't ever worry about them and don't ever think they are more than that. Never believe ANY thoughts. Do not identify with your thoughts and simply observe them from a distance. Your OCD will try to come up with all kinds of sneaky shit to draw you back into it, but NEVER give in to it, no matter what it says. Examples of sly tricks of OCD would be thoughts like "Meditation/Awareness doesn't work", "Your OCD will never go away" etc., but all these tricks only work because you let yourself get fooled by them, because you believe in them. You willingly give your power to these meaningless thoughts so that they can destroy you with it. See the absurdity in that. Also, never try to argue with thoughts, correct them, fight them, get rid of them etc., all of that is more tricks of OCD. You cannot solve OCD inside of the mind, only by stepping outside of the mind and observing it (Awareness). Intrusive thoughts and compulsions are randomly generated and you have absolutely no control over them whatsoever, but you have the power of being able to simply observe them, which will make you realize that you are not these thoughts, which will make them go away if you do it long enough. They only keep coming if they keep getting negative reactions from you. Fully accept and welcome all thoughts, no matter how strange or disturbing they may be. Never resist thoughts. Thoughts have no power over you as long as you don't give it to them. Never feel ashamed, disgusted or shocked by your thoughts, this fuels intrusive thoughts and compulsions immensely. Compulsions and intrusive thoughts thrive on your negative reactions to them. Simply observe them without being irritated by them. OCD is threatened by Meditation/Awareness, that's why it will try to keep you from practicing them. When you practice Meditation/Awareness, your OCD might try to draw you back into its grasp through anxiety and anxious reactions in the body: tension, racing heart, sweating, stomach/heart pain etc., don't identify with these uncomfortable bodily sensations either and also observe all of this in a detached way. It's all just the OCD trying to trick you and ruin your life. The fact that your OCD will try to keep you from meditating/practicing Awareness should be a clear signal to you that you are on the right path to overcoming it. Meditating and constantly practicing Awareness might be very hard at first, but don't be discouraged, it will become easier and easier with time, and your OCD and all its symptoms will gradually become better. Even if thoughts still come up, they will not bother you anymore, you will just see them for the random bullshit that they are. The end goal would be to remain in Awareness 24/7, which would make you completely invulnerable to all compulsions and intrusive thoughts. Also, as corny as it may sound, what's even more important than Meditation and constantly practicing Awareness is fully and unconditionally loving yourself and everybody else and everything else in the world, even the most evil shit you can imagine, even your intrusive thoughts and compulsions. Your world and life have to become completely filled with Love. Negativity and suffering can only thrive where there is a lack of Love. Love repels negativity and suffering like oil repels water. You WILL get through this if you follow my advice consequently for a long enough time, please trust me for your own sake. Wishing you all the best and much love my friend. 😊❤
@@Alina-xu7nn If you have OCD (compulsions and/or intrusive thoughts), do the following practice and your compulsions and intrusive thoughts WILL 100% get better and most likely even completely vanish if you apply this advice for long enough, you have to do this if you want to get better, there is no way around it: Meditate daily, ideally 30-60+ minutes, but you can start with 5+ minutes and work your way up. I recommend Vipassana meditation, which simply means putting your attention on the bodily sensations of breathing. Meditation is essentially about one thing: Practicing Awareness. Sitting meditation is an intentional, focused practice of Awareness, but it's just the beginning. You also have to practice Awareness when you are not sitting down to meditate. You basically have to meditate/practice Awareness 24/7, no matter what you are doing, no matter how many thoughts come up and no matter how much you suffer mentally and physically. Practicing Awareness means simply observing your thoughts and compulsions (and also emotions, sensory perceptions, bodily sensations, pain etc., basically everything you experience) in a distanced and detached way. You have to realize that you ARE the observer/the Awareness that is free from all experience. YOU ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS AND COMPULSIONS. You are free from your thoughts, your thoughts just fool you into believing that they are real. Thoughts are just randomly generated bullshit, don't ever worry about them and don't ever think they are more than that. Never believe ANY thoughts. Do not identify with your thoughts and simply observe them from a distance. Your OCD will try to come up with all kinds of sneaky shit to draw you back into it, but NEVER give in to it, no matter what it says. Examples of sly tricks of OCD would be thoughts like "Meditation/Awareness doesn't work", "Your OCD will never go away" etc., but all these tricks only work because you let yourself get fooled by them, because you believe in them. You willingly give your power to these meaningless thoughts so that they can destroy you with it. See the absurdity in that. Also, never try to argue with thoughts, correct them, fight them, get rid of them etc., all of that is more tricks of OCD. You cannot solve OCD inside of the mind, only by stepping outside of the mind and observing it (Awareness). Intrusive thoughts and compulsions are randomly generated and you have absolutely no control over them whatsoever, but you have the power of being able to simply observe them, which will make you realize that you are not these thoughts, which will make them go away if you do it long enough. They only keep coming if they keep getting negative reactions from you. Fully accept and welcome all thoughts, no matter how strange or disturbing they may be. Never resist thoughts. Thoughts have no power over you as long as you don't give it to them. Never feel ashamed, disgusted or shocked by your thoughts, this fuels intrusive thoughts and compulsions immensely. Compulsions and intrusive thoughts thrive on your negative reactions to them. Simply observe them without being irritated by them. OCD is threatened by Meditation/Awareness, that's why it will try to keep you from practicing them. When you practice Meditation/Awareness, your OCD might try to draw you back into its grasp through anxiety and anxious reactions in the body: tension, racing heart, sweating, stomach/heart pain etc., don't identify with these uncomfortable bodily sensations either and also observe all of this in a detached way. It's all just the OCD trying to trick you and ruin your life. The fact that your OCD will try to keep you from meditating/practicing Awareness should be a clear signal to you that you are on the right path to overcoming it. Meditating and constantly practicing Awareness might be very hard at first, but don't be discouraged, it will become easier and easier with time, and your OCD and all its symptoms will gradually become better. Even if thoughts still come up, they will not bother you anymore, you will just see them for the random bullshit that they are. The end goal would be to remain in Awareness 24/7, which would make you completely invulnerable to all compulsions and intrusive thoughts. Also, as corny as it may sound, what's even more important than Meditation and constantly practicing Awareness is fully and unconditionally loving yourself and everybody else and everything else in the world, even the most evil shit you can imagine, even your intrusive thoughts and compulsions. Your world and life have to become completely filled with Love. Negativity and suffering can only thrive where there is a lack of Love. Love repels negativity and suffering like oil repels water. You WILL get through this if you follow my advice consequently for a long enough time, please trust me for your own sake. Wishing you all the best and much love my friend. 😊❤
I never been a fan of his songs but god damn this relates to me. I have thoughts like this and it makes me feel like a bad person and I just want to be a great person. I'm a big fan now of him and this was super brave for him to talk about
"Dig a little, get through the evening." You have no idea how much I relate to that; every day is a mountain climb to get back to my bed, hoping the next day will be the day where I can stop climbing and start flying.
If you can defeat pure O I am pretty sure nothing in this world can take you down …. OCD is the worst thing a human being can face … it feels like you are in hell
@@jamesjohnstone1224 I am feeling very good I managed to defeat it .. with the help of ERP , one spoon of honey every morning and exercising I am at my best
@@fy2398 that’s great news I’m so glad for you, can I just clarify then, acceptance is really key here right? Just try and do everything you would normally do with acceptance
@@jamesjohnstone1224 yes you have to accept everything OCD tells you and remember OCD won’t tell you nice things it always capitalise on your worst of fears so be prepared to accept your worst of fears
As you get older and life reminds you "this is another day and yesterday is done" and I say "anyway, back to my day". Those thoughts started to drift into the background like elevator music,
If you have OCD (compulsions and/or intrusive thoughts), do the following practice and your compulsions and intrusive thoughts WILL 100% get better and most likely even completely vanish if you apply this advice for long enough, you have to do this if you want to get better, there is no way around it: Meditate daily, ideally 30-60+ minutes, but you can start with 5+ minutes and work your way up. I recommend Vipassana meditation, which simply means putting your attention on the bodily sensations of breathing. Meditation is essentially about one thing: Practicing Awareness. Sitting meditation is an intentional, focused practice of Awareness, but it's just the beginning. You also have to practice Awareness when you are not sitting down to meditate. You basically have to meditate/practice Awareness 24/7, no matter what you are doing, no matter how many thoughts come up and no matter how much you suffer mentally and physically. Practicing Awareness means simply observing your thoughts and compulsions (and also emotions, sensory perceptions, bodily sensations, pain etc., basically everything you experience) in a distanced and detached way. You have to realize that you ARE the observer/the Awareness that is free from all experience. YOU ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS AND COMPULSIONS. You are free from your thoughts, your thoughts just fool you into believing that they are real. Thoughts are just randomly generated bullshit, don't ever worry about them and don't ever think they are more than that. Never believe ANY thoughts. Do not identify with your thoughts and simply observe them from a distance. Your OCD will try to come up with all kinds of sneaky shit to draw you back into it, but NEVER give in to it, no matter what it says. Examples of sly tricks of OCD would be thoughts like "Meditation/Awareness doesn't work", "Your OCD will never go away" etc., but all these tricks only work because you let yourself get fooled by them, because you believe in them. You willingly give your power to these meaningless thoughts so that they can destroy you with it. See the absurdity in that. Also, never try to argue with thoughts, correct them, fight them, get rid of them etc., all of that is more tricks of OCD. You cannot solve OCD inside of the mind, only by stepping outside of the mind and observing it (Awareness). Intrusive thoughts and compulsions are randomly generated and you have absolutely no control over them whatsoever, but you have the power of being able to simply observe them, which will make you realize that you are not these thoughts, which will make them go away if you do it long enough. They only keep coming if they keep getting negative reactions from you. Fully accept and welcome all thoughts, no matter how strange or disturbing they may be. Never resist thoughts. Thoughts have no power over you as long as you don't give it to them. Never feel ashamed, disgusted or shocked by your thoughts, this fuels intrusive thoughts and compulsions immensely. Compulsions and intrusive thoughts thrive on your negative reactions to them. Simply observe them without being irritated by them. OCD is threatened by Meditation/Awareness, that's why it will try to keep you from practicing them. When you practice Meditation/Awareness, your OCD might try to draw you back into its grasp through anxiety and anxious reactions in the body: tension, racing heart, sweating, stomach/heart pain etc., don't identify with these uncomfortable bodily sensations either and also observe all of this in a detached way. It's all just the OCD trying to trick you and ruin your life. The fact that your OCD will try to keep you from meditating/practicing Awareness should be a clear signal to you that you are on the right path to overcoming it. Meditating and constantly practicing Awareness might be very hard at first, but don't be discouraged, it will become easier and easier with time, and your OCD and all its symptoms will gradually become better. Even if thoughts still come up, they will not bother you anymore, you will just see them for the random bullshit that they are. The end goal would be to remain in Awareness 24/7, which would make you completely invulnerable to all compulsions and intrusive thoughts. Also, as corny as it may sound, what's even more important than Meditation and constantly practicing Awareness is fully and unconditionally loving yourself and everybody else and everything else in the world, even the most evil shit you can imagine, even your intrusive thoughts and compulsions. Your world and life have to become completely filled with Love. Negativity and suffering can only thrive where there is a lack of Love. Love repels negativity and suffering like oil repels water. You WILL get through this if you follow my advice consequently for a long enough time, please trust me for your own sake. Wishing you all the best and much love my friend. 😊❤
this name "pure o" is kinda simplistic because you still get compulsions, just mental ones, like imagining things that in your mind are "neutralizing" whatever your intrusive thoughts are about. But he was right - obsessions and intrusive thoughts without physical compulsions.
One of my favourite mantras is: I can afford to not worry about anything for the next 3 hrs. 20 minutes out of that I will spend here. If you aim at 20 minutes, the spectre of needing to tense -up-to-cope-with-a-mad-world looms too close
@@BBCSounds I suggest releasing the full thing on TH-cam with a still image, like some people do for podcasts or albums or the like. Thank you for this interesting interview!
If you have OCD (compulsions and/or intrusive thoughts), do the following practice and your compulsions and intrusive thoughts WILL 100% get better and most likely even completely vanish if you apply this advice for long enough, you have to do this if you want to get better, there is no way around it: Meditate daily, ideally 30-60+ minutes, but you can start with 5+ minutes and work your way up. I recommend Vipassana meditation, which simply means putting your attention on the bodily sensations of breathing. Meditation is essentially about one thing: Practicing Awareness. Sitting meditation is an intentional, focused practice of Awareness, but it's just the beginning. You also have to practice Awareness when you are not sitting down to meditate. You basically have to meditate/practice Awareness 24/7, no matter what you are doing, no matter how many thoughts come up and no matter how much you suffer mentally and physically. Practicing Awareness means simply observing your thoughts and compulsions (and also emotions, sensory perceptions, bodily sensations, pain etc., basically everything you experience) in a distanced and detached way. You have to realize that you ARE the observer/the Awareness that is free from all experience. YOU ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS AND COMPULSIONS. You are free from your thoughts, your thoughts just fool you into believing that they are real. Thoughts are just randomly generated bullshit, don't ever worry about them and don't ever think they are more than that. Never believe ANY thoughts. Do not identify with your thoughts and simply observe them from a distance. Your OCD will try to come up with all kinds of sneaky shit to draw you back into it, but NEVER give in to it, no matter what it says. Examples of sly tricks of OCD would be thoughts like "Meditation/Awareness doesn't work", "Your OCD will never go away" etc., but all these tricks only work because you let yourself get fooled by them, because you believe in them. You willingly give your power to these meaningless thoughts so that they can destroy you with it. See the absurdity in that. Also, never try to argue with thoughts, correct them, fight them, get rid of them etc., all of that is more tricks of OCD. You cannot solve OCD inside of the mind, only by stepping outside of the mind and observing it (Awareness). Intrusive thoughts and compulsions are randomly generated and you have absolutely no control over them whatsoever, but you have the power of being able to simply observe them, which will make you realize that you are not these thoughts, which will make them go away if you do it long enough. They only keep coming if they keep getting negative reactions from you. Fully accept and welcome all thoughts, no matter how strange or disturbing they may be. Never resist thoughts. Thoughts have no power over you as long as you don't give it to them. Never feel ashamed, disgusted or shocked by your thoughts, this fuels intrusive thoughts and compulsions immensely. Compulsions and intrusive thoughts thrive on your negative reactions to them. Simply observe them without being irritated by them. OCD is threatened by Meditation/Awareness, that's why it will try to keep you from practicing them. When you practice Meditation/Awareness, your OCD might try to draw you back into its grasp through anxiety and anxious reactions in the body: tension, racing heart, sweating, stomach/heart pain etc., don't identify with these uncomfortable bodily sensations either and also observe all of this in a detached way. It's all just the OCD trying to trick you and ruin your life. The fact that your OCD will try to keep you from meditating/practicing Awareness should be a clear signal to you that you are on the right path to overcoming it. Meditating and constantly practicing Awareness might be very hard at first, but don't be discouraged, it will become easier and easier with time, and your OCD and all its symptoms will gradually become better. Even if thoughts still come up, they will not bother you anymore, you will just see them for the random bullshit that they are. The end goal would be to remain in Awareness 24/7, which would make you completely invulnerable to all compulsions and intrusive thoughts. Also, as corny as it may sound, what's even more important than Meditation and constantly practicing Awareness is fully and unconditionally loving yourself and everybody else and everything else in the world, even the most evil shit you can imagine, even your intrusive thoughts and compulsions. Your world and life have to become completely filled with Love. Negativity and suffering can only thrive where there is a lack of Love. Love repels negativity and suffering like oil repels water. You WILL get through this if you follow my advice consequently for a long enough time, please trust me for your own sake. Wishing you all the best and much love my friend. 😊❤
My family is an example of the genetic component of OCD. My sister and I, my father, his mother and including 5 of her siblings. Terrible outcomes 3 suicides, 2 spent much time in mental hospitals. (a Mennonite family). My OCD is internalized to such an extent that I often lose time when I'm immersed in some rumination. It's terribly disturbing not being present to others who are around you.
Heh, came across this by accident. I really start liking you, sweet G. Never been many men I could relate to honestly, not that I haven´t been head over heels into someone, but they just feel so different mostly. Not with you, though, what is a tiny bit weird. Haven´t expected you to be similar in this going about one thing repeatedly, but then again I found myself in many phrases you would use in your lyrics, pictures you paint with words, interesting thing.
Matthew 11:28-30 New International Version 28 “Come to me,(A) all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.(B) 29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me,(C) for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.(D) 30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”
My heart goes out to you a hero for sharing thank you so much 🧸♥️🧸🌻🌹🌻🌹🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🥰❤💞❤💞🙏🏻💯❤God bless you where ever you go in life wish you good health and happiness 🥰🙏🏻💯💞❤💞🎶🎵💞🎶🎵💞
I think I had this. Thank god I knew about Jung's concept of the shadow. I was more able to accept what I now see to be Pure O symptoms. I imagine it would have been rather different if I'd grown up more believing in the idea of some thoughts being sinful
Because GAD and OCD are different disorders. GAD is more common than OCD, with estimates that 1 in 3 people have it. OCD is thought to be present in 1 in 40 adults, and the subset of OCD that George (and I) have, called Pure O, is even rarer at 1 in 100 by some estimates. The main difference between the disorders is that those with OCD feel they have to perform physical or mental behaviors to rid themselves of the anxiety their intrusive thoughts cause, while those with GAD don't do this. These behaviors are also called compulsions, which is the C in OCD.
Listen to Dr Greenbergs rumination podcasts or visit his website , psychologist who had pure o , his rumination erp has helped a lot. Was a game changer for me hope it helps someone out there.
George you are a amazing person, you have gift from God. God love’s you, only God can set you free from OCD. Put your trust in Him, and He will set you free. Wishing you the best. ❤️❤️🇺🇸🇺🇸
Looks like eveyone has some sort of OCD now that is a more known condition than many years ago, since people in every country around the world has it. It must be some sort of general human flaw in the brain, there should be more deep research on this mental condition.
If you have OCD (compulsions and/or intrusive thoughts), do the following practice and your compulsions and intrusive thoughts WILL 100% get better and most likely even completely vanish if you apply this advice for long enough, you have to do this if you want to get better, there is no way around it: Meditate daily, ideally 30-60+ minutes, but you can start with 5+ minutes and work your way up. I recommend Vipassana meditation, which simply means putting your attention on the bodily sensations of breathing. Meditation is essentially about one thing: Practicing Awareness. Sitting meditation is an intentional, focused practice of Awareness, but it's just the beginning. You also have to practice Awareness when you are not sitting down to meditate. You basically have to meditate/practice Awareness 24/7, no matter what you are doing, no matter how many thoughts come up and no matter how much you suffer mentally and physically. Practicing Awareness means simply observing your thoughts and compulsions (and also emotions, sensory perceptions, bodily sensations, pain etc., basically everything you experience) in a distanced and detached way. You have to realize that you ARE the observer/the Awareness that is free from all experience. YOU ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS AND COMPULSIONS. You are free from your thoughts, your thoughts just fool you into believing that they are real. Thoughts are just randomly generated bullshit, don't ever worry about them and don't ever think they are more than that. Never believe ANY thoughts. Do not identify with your thoughts and simply observe them from a distance. Your OCD will try to come up with all kinds of sneaky shit to draw you back into it, but NEVER give in to it, no matter what it says. Examples of sly tricks of OCD would be thoughts like "Meditation/Awareness doesn't work", "Your OCD will never go away" etc., but all these tricks only work because you let yourself get fooled by them, because you believe in them. You willingly give your power to these meaningless thoughts so that they can destroy you with it. See the absurdity in that. Also, never try to argue with thoughts, correct them, fight them, get rid of them etc., all of that is more tricks of OCD. You cannot solve OCD inside of the mind, only by stepping outside of the mind and observing it (Awareness). Intrusive thoughts and compulsions are randomly generated and you have absolutely no control over them whatsoever, but you have the power of being able to simply observe them, which will make you realize that you are not these thoughts, which will make them go away if you do it long enough. They only keep coming if they keep getting negative reactions from you. Fully accept and welcome all thoughts, no matter how strange or disturbing they may be. Never resist thoughts. Thoughts have no power over you as long as you don't give it to them. Never feel ashamed, disgusted or shocked by your thoughts, this fuels intrusive thoughts and compulsions immensely. Compulsions and intrusive thoughts thrive on your negative reactions to them. Simply observe them without being irritated by them. OCD is threatened by Meditation/Awareness, that's why it will try to keep you from practicing them. When you practice Meditation/Awareness, your OCD might try to draw you back into its grasp through anxiety and anxious reactions in the body: tension, racing heart, sweating, stomach/heart pain etc., don't identify with these uncomfortable bodily sensations either and also observe all of this in a detached way. It's all just the OCD trying to trick you and ruin your life. The fact that your OCD will try to keep you from meditating/practicing Awareness should be a clear signal to you that you are on the right path to overcoming it. Meditating and constantly practicing Awareness might be very hard at first, but don't be discouraged, it will become easier and easier with time, and your OCD and all its symptoms will gradually become better. Even if thoughts still come up, they will not bother you anymore, you will just see them for the random bullshit that they are. The end goal would be to remain in Awareness 24/7, which would make you completely invulnerable to all compulsions and intrusive thoughts. Also, as corny as it may sound, what's even more important than Meditation and constantly practicing Awareness is fully and unconditionally loving yourself and everybody else and everything else in the world, even the most evil shit you can imagine, even your intrusive thoughts and compulsions. Your world and life have to become completely filled with Love. Negativity and suffering can only thrive where there is a lack of Love. Love repels negativity and suffering like oil repels water. You WILL get through this if you follow my advice consequently for a long enough time, please trust me for your own sake. Wishing you all the best and much love my friend. 😊❤
Everyone has thoughts that they aren't proud of or if voiced, would make them into a pariah. Let's stop sensationalising something which is just being human. It is nothing more than the manifestation of man's sinful nature. It is incurable outside of God's help.
If you have OCD (compulsions and/or intrusive thoughts), do the following practice and your compulsions and intrusive thoughts WILL 100% get better and most likely even completely vanish if you apply this advice for long enough, you have to do this if you want to get better, there is no way around it: Meditate daily, ideally 30-60+ minutes, but you can start with 5+ minutes and work your way up. I recommend Vipassana meditation, which simply means putting your attention on the bodily sensations of breathing. Meditation is essentially about one thing: Practicing Awareness. Sitting meditation is an intentional, focused practice of Awareness, but it's just the beginning. You also have to practice Awareness when you are not sitting down to meditate. You basically have to meditate/practice Awareness 24/7, no matter what you are doing, no matter how many thoughts come up and no matter how much you suffer mentally and physically. Practicing Awareness means simply observing your thoughts and compulsions (and also emotions, sensory perceptions, bodily sensations, pain etc., basically everything you experience) in a distanced and detached way. You have to realize that you ARE the observer/the Awareness that is free from all experience. YOU ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS AND COMPULSIONS. You are free from your thoughts, your thoughts just fool you into believing that they are real. Thoughts are just randomly generated bullshit, don't ever worry about them and don't ever think they are more than that. Never believe ANY thoughts. Do not identify with your thoughts and simply observe them from a distance. Your OCD will try to come up with all kinds of sneaky shit to draw you back into it, but NEVER give in to it, no matter what it says. Examples of sly tricks of OCD would be thoughts like "Meditation/Awareness doesn't work", "Your OCD will never go away" etc., but all these tricks only work because you let yourself get fooled by them, because you believe in them. You willingly give your power to these meaningless thoughts so that they can destroy you with it. See the absurdity in that. Also, never try to argue with thoughts, correct them, fight them, get rid of them etc., all of that is more tricks of OCD. You cannot solve OCD inside of the mind, only by stepping outside of the mind and observing it (Awareness). Intrusive thoughts and compulsions are randomly generated and you have absolutely no control over them whatsoever, but you have the power of being able to simply observe them, which will make you realize that you are not these thoughts, which will make them go away if you do it long enough. They only keep coming if they keep getting negative reactions from you. Fully accept and welcome all thoughts, no matter how strange or disturbing they may be. Never resist thoughts. Thoughts have no power over you as long as you don't give it to them. Never feel ashamed, disgusted or shocked by your thoughts, this fuels intrusive thoughts and compulsions immensely. Compulsions and intrusive thoughts thrive on your negative reactions to them. Simply observe them without being irritated by them. OCD is threatened by Meditation/Awareness, that's why it will try to keep you from practicing them. When you practice Meditation/Awareness, your OCD might try to draw you back into its grasp through anxiety and anxious reactions in the body: tension, racing heart, sweating, stomach/heart pain etc., don't identify with these uncomfortable bodily sensations either and also observe all of this in a detached way. It's all just the OCD trying to trick you and ruin your life. The fact that your OCD will try to keep you from meditating/practicing Awareness should be a clear signal to you that you are on the right path to overcoming it. Meditating and constantly practicing Awareness might be very hard at first, but don't be discouraged, it will become easier and easier with time, and your OCD and all its symptoms will gradually become better. Even if thoughts still come up, they will not bother you anymore, you will just see them for the random bullshit that they are. The end goal would be to remain in Awareness 24/7, which would make you completely invulnerable to all compulsions and intrusive thoughts. Also, as corny as it may sound, what's even more important than Meditation and constantly practicing Awareness is fully and unconditionally loving yourself and everybody else and everything else in the world, even the most evil shit you can imagine, even your intrusive thoughts and compulsions. Your world and life have to become completely filled with Love. Negativity and suffering can only thrive where there is a lack of Love. Love repels negativity and suffering like oil repels water. You WILL get through this if you follow my advice consequently for a long enough time, please trust me for your own sake. Wishing you all the best and much love my friend. 😊❤
Um, no. OCD intrusive thoughts are by definition ego-dystonic, meaning that they do not align with the sufferer's true self or identity. Scientists believe that they are actually your brain reminding you of what NOT to do, not giving you advice on what to do. And spreading awareness about this condition is not "sensationalizing" it, it is providing literally life-saving education about this terminally terrifying and AWFUL thing to go through on a daily basis. I know that you're probably not aware, but those with Religious OCD and / or religious trauma could go into a spiral seeing this comment. OCD already convinces us through cognitive distortions that our thoughts come from our true self, and we really don't need people who have no experience, training, or education on the disease to spread false information about it. Lastly, I don't think G-d would want you to use His name to shame people. Have a good day.
This illness is like a nightmare! The bad thing is that nightmares last for a night while this illness for years on end! Its really sad that some people get raped by their own brain like that! Imagine being yourself for years and then all of a sudden something attackes you and you no longer feel or think like yourself! You can realize this but you cant do anything to stop the torment!
"It felt like I'm not a freak, I'm not alone" - George Ezra on his OCD.
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If you have OCD (compulsions and/or intrusive thoughts), do the following practice and your compulsions and intrusive thoughts WILL 100% get better and most likely even completely vanish if you apply this advice for long enough, you have to do this if you want to get better, there is no way around it:
Meditate daily, ideally 30-60+ minutes, but you can start with 5+ minutes and work your way up. I recommend Vipassana meditation, which simply means putting your attention on the bodily sensations of breathing.
Meditation is essentially about one thing: Practicing Awareness. Sitting meditation is an intentional, focused practice of Awareness, but it's just the beginning. You also have to practice Awareness when you are not sitting down to meditate. You basically have to meditate/practice Awareness 24/7, no matter what you are doing, no matter how many thoughts come up and no matter how much you suffer mentally and physically.
Practicing Awareness means simply observing your thoughts and compulsions (and also emotions, sensory perceptions, bodily sensations, pain etc., basically everything you experience) in a distanced and detached way. You have to realize that you ARE the observer/the Awareness that is free from all experience. YOU ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS AND COMPULSIONS. You are free from your thoughts, your thoughts just fool you into believing that they are real. Thoughts are just randomly generated bullshit, don't ever worry about them and don't ever think they are more than that. Never believe ANY thoughts. Do not identify with your thoughts and simply observe them from a distance. Your OCD will try to come up with all kinds of sneaky shit to draw you back into it, but NEVER give in to it, no matter what it says. Examples of sly tricks of OCD would be thoughts like "Meditation/Awareness doesn't work", "Your OCD will never go away" etc., but all these tricks only work because you let yourself get fooled by them, because you believe in them. You willingly give your power to these meaningless thoughts so that they can destroy you with it. See the absurdity in that. Also, never try to argue with thoughts, correct them, fight them, get rid of them etc., all of that is more tricks of OCD. You cannot solve OCD inside of the mind, only by stepping outside of the mind and observing it (Awareness). Intrusive thoughts and compulsions are randomly generated and you have absolutely no control over them whatsoever, but you have the power of being able to simply observe them, which will make you realize that you are not these thoughts, which will make them go away if you do it long enough. They only keep coming if they keep getting negative reactions from you. Fully accept and welcome all thoughts, no matter how strange or disturbing they may be. Never resist thoughts. Thoughts have no power over you as long as you don't give it to them. Never feel ashamed, disgusted or shocked by your thoughts, this fuels intrusive thoughts and compulsions immensely. Compulsions and intrusive thoughts thrive on your negative reactions to them. Simply observe them without being irritated by them.
OCD is threatened by Meditation/Awareness, that's why it will try to keep you from practicing them. When you practice Meditation/Awareness, your OCD might try to draw you back into its grasp through anxiety and anxious reactions in the body: tension, racing heart, sweating, stomach/heart pain etc., don't identify with these uncomfortable bodily sensations either and also observe all of this in a detached way. It's all just the OCD trying to trick you and ruin your life. The fact that your OCD will try to keep you from meditating/practicing Awareness should be a clear signal to you that you are on the right path to overcoming it.
Meditating and constantly practicing Awareness might be very hard at first, but don't be discouraged, it will become easier and easier with time, and your OCD and all its symptoms will gradually become better. Even if thoughts still come up, they will not bother you anymore, you will just see them for the random bullshit that they are. The end goal would be to remain in Awareness 24/7, which would make you completely invulnerable to all compulsions and intrusive thoughts.
Also, as corny as it may sound, what's even more important than Meditation and constantly practicing Awareness is fully and unconditionally loving yourself and everybody else and everything else in the world, even the most evil shit you can imagine, even your intrusive thoughts and compulsions. Your world and life have to become completely filled with Love. Negativity and suffering can only thrive where there is a lack of Love. Love repels negativity and suffering like oil repels water.
You WILL get through this if you follow my advice consequently for a long enough time, please trust me for your own sake.
Wishing you all the best and much love my friend. 😊❤
Wonderful young man who does not realise, probably, how many people he has helped in this interview.
He certainly has helped me and I've been looking for answers for years (I'm 68 nearly!)
A thousand times yes. 1 in 100 people are estimated to have Pure O, and I reckon that statistic is significantly lower than what it should be because Pure O is criminally underdiagnosed due to misdiagnosis and people feeling too ashamed of their thoughts to seek help. 58,000 people watched this video, which means that *at least* 580 people have just found out what is wrong with them. That is 580 people who will now have access to a diagnosis and the clarity, community, treatment, resources, education and so much more that comes along with it. 580 people who will live a little easier knowing that there is hope. 580 people who feel represented. 580 people who might seek therapy. And, because unfortunately those with OCD are 10 times more likely to off themselves then the general population, 580 people who might choose to live another day; 580 families who will keep their loved one. 580 people who might help to spread awareness of the condition themselves, like a game of infection tag as a child where those who are tagged tag other people, who tag others, who tag others. Bless anyone who works to spread awareness about Pure O.
@@marilynstarkie7321 im glad he helped!! I’m also a sufferer. Ive never been diagnosed but there came a point where there was no explanation why I had to do all these things and why it took up so much of my time. I hope you’re doing alright and if you ever wanna talk about it or about anything, feel free to !
he got it right when he said "I`m not a freak and I`m not alone"
If you have OCD (compulsions and/or intrusive thoughts), do the following practice and your compulsions and intrusive thoughts WILL 100% get better and most likely even completely vanish if you apply this advice for long enough, you have to do this if you want to get better, there is no way around it:
Meditate daily, ideally 30-60+ minutes, but you can start with 5+ minutes and work your way up. I recommend Vipassana meditation, which simply means putting your attention on the bodily sensations of breathing.
Meditation is essentially about one thing: Practicing Awareness. Sitting meditation is an intentional, focused practice of Awareness, but it's just the beginning. You also have to practice Awareness when you are not sitting down to meditate. You basically have to meditate/practice Awareness 24/7, no matter what you are doing, no matter how many thoughts come up and no matter how much you suffer mentally and physically.
Practicing Awareness means simply observing your thoughts and compulsions (and also emotions, sensory perceptions, bodily sensations, pain etc., basically everything you experience) in a distanced and detached way. You have to realize that you ARE the observer/the Awareness that is free from all experience. YOU ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS AND COMPULSIONS. You are free from your thoughts, your thoughts just fool you into believing that they are real. Thoughts are just randomly generated bullshit, don't ever worry about them and don't ever think they are more than that. Never believe ANY thoughts. Do not identify with your thoughts and simply observe them from a distance. Your OCD will try to come up with all kinds of sneaky shit to draw you back into it, but NEVER give in to it, no matter what it says. Examples of sly tricks of OCD would be thoughts like "Meditation/Awareness doesn't work", "Your OCD will never go away" etc., but all these tricks only work because you let yourself get fooled by them, because you believe in them. You willingly give your power to these meaningless thoughts so that they can destroy you with it. See the absurdity in that. Also, never try to argue with thoughts, correct them, fight them, get rid of them etc., all of that is more tricks of OCD. You cannot solve OCD inside of the mind, only by stepping outside of the mind and observing it (Awareness). Intrusive thoughts and compulsions are randomly generated and you have absolutely no control over them whatsoever, but you have the power of being able to simply observe them, which will make you realize that you are not these thoughts, which will make them go away if you do it long enough. They only keep coming if they keep getting negative reactions from you. Fully accept and welcome all thoughts, no matter how strange or disturbing they may be. Never resist thoughts. Thoughts have no power over you as long as you don't give it to them. Never feel ashamed, disgusted or shocked by your thoughts, this fuels intrusive thoughts and compulsions immensely. Compulsions and intrusive thoughts thrive on your negative reactions to them. Simply observe them without being irritated by them.
OCD is threatened by Meditation/Awareness, that's why it will try to keep you from practicing them. When you practice Meditation/Awareness, your OCD might try to draw you back into its grasp through anxiety and anxious reactions in the body: tension, racing heart, sweating, stomach/heart pain etc., don't identify with these uncomfortable bodily sensations either and also observe all of this in a detached way. It's all just the OCD trying to trick you and ruin your life. The fact that your OCD will try to keep you from meditating/practicing Awareness should be a clear signal to you that you are on the right path to overcoming it.
Meditating and constantly practicing Awareness might be very hard at first, but don't be discouraged, it will become easier and easier with time, and your OCD and all its symptoms will gradually become better. Even if thoughts still come up, they will not bother you anymore, you will just see them for the random bullshit that they are. The end goal would be to remain in Awareness 24/7, which would make you completely invulnerable to all compulsions and intrusive thoughts.
Also, as corny as it may sound, what's even more important than Meditation and constantly practicing Awareness is fully and unconditionally loving yourself and everybody else and everything else in the world, even the most evil shit you can imagine, even your intrusive thoughts and compulsions. Your world and life have to become completely filled with Love. Negativity and suffering can only thrive where there is a lack of Love. Love repels negativity and suffering like oil repels water.
You WILL get through this if you follow my advice consequently for a long enough time, please trust me for your own sake.
Wishing you all the best and much love my friend. 😊❤
This is a pretty difficult condition to live with it's weird because everything is internal and it's exhausting sometimes. It's almost like having a little monster control your thoughts.
That's exactly right
Bang on Alina!
Just to clarify for everyone, Pure O DOES involve compulsions. The compulsions are just mental instead of physical. Because the obsessions and compulsions are both thought-based, it can feel like you're just constantly obsessing.
Can you get over this then ? Have you had it ? Many thanks
@@jamesjohnstone1224 Yes you can. The same methods apply to mental compulsions as physical compulsions. Refrain from engaging in the thoughts, do not perform the compulsions that you feel you need to do to feel safe, and accept everything you feel and accept the fear of not doing the compulsion. This with practice teaches the brain that it's not a real danger that warrants a fear reaction
Sounds like torture. I have physical compulsions and its so hard to cope with it
Exactly right
I think lots of us relate to the moment we first found out about Pure O. If only it was talked about more & people were educated more on mental health in school - people wouldn’t have to feel alone or scared sick about what’s happening in their head - it’s the worst feeling
Exactly 💗
If you have OCD (compulsions and/or intrusive thoughts), do the following practice and your compulsions and intrusive thoughts WILL 100% get better and most likely even completely vanish if you apply this advice for long enough, you have to do this if you want to get better, there is no way around it:
Meditate daily, ideally 30-60+ minutes, but you can start with 5+ minutes and work your way up. I recommend Vipassana meditation, which simply means putting your attention on the bodily sensations of breathing.
Meditation is essentially about one thing: Practicing Awareness. Sitting meditation is an intentional, focused practice of Awareness, but it's just the beginning. You also have to practice Awareness when you are not sitting down to meditate. You basically have to meditate/practice Awareness 24/7, no matter what you are doing, no matter how many thoughts come up and no matter how much you suffer mentally and physically.
Practicing Awareness means simply observing your thoughts and compulsions (and also emotions, sensory perceptions, bodily sensations, pain etc., basically everything you experience) in a distanced and detached way. You have to realize that you ARE the observer/the Awareness that is free from all experience. YOU ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS AND COMPULSIONS. You are free from your thoughts, your thoughts just fool you into believing that they are real. Thoughts are just randomly generated bullshit, don't ever worry about them and don't ever think they are more than that. Never believe ANY thoughts. Do not identify with your thoughts and simply observe them from a distance. Your OCD will try to come up with all kinds of sneaky shit to draw you back into it, but NEVER give in to it, no matter what it says. Examples of sly tricks of OCD would be thoughts like "Meditation/Awareness doesn't work", "Your OCD will never go away" etc., but all these tricks only work because you let yourself get fooled by them, because you believe in them. You willingly give your power to these meaningless thoughts so that they can destroy you with it. See the absurdity in that. Also, never try to argue with thoughts, correct them, fight them, get rid of them etc., all of that is more tricks of OCD. You cannot solve OCD inside of the mind, only by stepping outside of the mind and observing it (Awareness). Intrusive thoughts and compulsions are randomly generated and you have absolutely no control over them whatsoever, but you have the power of being able to simply observe them, which will make you realize that you are not these thoughts, which will make them go away if you do it long enough. They only keep coming if they keep getting negative reactions from you. Fully accept and welcome all thoughts, no matter how strange or disturbing they may be. Never resist thoughts. Thoughts have no power over you as long as you don't give it to them. Never feel ashamed, disgusted or shocked by your thoughts, this fuels intrusive thoughts and compulsions immensely. Compulsions and intrusive thoughts thrive on your negative reactions to them. Simply observe them without being irritated by them.
OCD is threatened by Meditation/Awareness, that's why it will try to keep you from practicing them. When you practice Meditation/Awareness, your OCD might try to draw you back into its grasp through anxiety and anxious reactions in the body: tension, racing heart, sweating, stomach/heart pain etc., don't identify with these uncomfortable bodily sensations either and also observe all of this in a detached way. It's all just the OCD trying to trick you and ruin your life. The fact that your OCD will try to keep you from meditating/practicing Awareness should be a clear signal to you that you are on the right path to overcoming it.
Meditating and constantly practicing Awareness might be very hard at first, but don't be discouraged, it will become easier and easier with time, and your OCD and all its symptoms will gradually become better. Even if thoughts still come up, they will not bother you anymore, you will just see them for the random bullshit that they are. The end goal would be to remain in Awareness 24/7, which would make you completely invulnerable to all compulsions and intrusive thoughts.
Also, as corny as it may sound, what's even more important than Meditation and constantly practicing Awareness is fully and unconditionally loving yourself and everybody else and everything else in the world, even the most evil shit you can imagine, even your intrusive thoughts and compulsions. Your world and life have to become completely filled with Love. Negativity and suffering can only thrive where there is a lack of Love. Love repels negativity and suffering like oil repels water.
You WILL get through this if you follow my advice consequently for a long enough time, please trust me for your own sake.
Wishing you all the best and much love my friend. 😊❤
YES! People say not to self-diagnose, but the moment I found out about Pure O was so amazing. It wasn't like, oh my gosh, I'm sooo OCD because I like to organize my colored pencils in rainbow order. It was like, no one ever talked about anything remotely similar to what I was feeling. And then, after 1 1/2 years from the time of onset (which is unfortunately an extremely short amount of time compared to other sufferers), I heard about Pure O and it was such a moment of clarity, like I didn't need to keep searching anymore. I just knew what I had.
It’s true how much of a difference it really is to finally find out it’s a mental illness and that you aren’t some kind of pervert or evil person. Luckily my mother is the one who researched what it was and told me because I was sleeping my days away because when I slept I wouldn’t have to deal with the thoughts.
Great to hear people talk confidently and openly about mental health issues. It helps others with similar issues to talk more about their issues.
If you have OCD (compulsions and/or intrusive thoughts), do the following practice and your compulsions and intrusive thoughts WILL 100% get better and most likely even completely vanish if you apply this advice for long enough, you have to do this if you want to get better, there is no way around it:
Meditate daily, ideally 30-60+ minutes, but you can start with 5+ minutes and work your way up. I recommend Vipassana meditation, which simply means putting your attention on the bodily sensations of breathing.
Meditation is essentially about one thing: Practicing Awareness. Sitting meditation is an intentional, focused practice of Awareness, but it's just the beginning. You also have to practice Awareness when you are not sitting down to meditate. You basically have to meditate/practice Awareness 24/7, no matter what you are doing, no matter how many thoughts come up and no matter how much you suffer mentally and physically.
Practicing Awareness means simply observing your thoughts and compulsions (and also emotions, sensory perceptions, bodily sensations, pain etc., basically everything you experience) in a distanced and detached way. You have to realize that you ARE the observer/the Awareness that is free from all experience. YOU ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS AND COMPULSIONS. You are free from your thoughts, your thoughts just fool you into believing that they are real. Thoughts are just randomly generated bullshit, don't ever worry about them and don't ever think they are more than that. Never believe ANY thoughts. Do not identify with your thoughts and simply observe them from a distance. Your OCD will try to come up with all kinds of sneaky shit to draw you back into it, but NEVER give in to it, no matter what it says. Examples of sly tricks of OCD would be thoughts like "Meditation/Awareness doesn't work", "Your OCD will never go away" etc., but all these tricks only work because you let yourself get fooled by them, because you believe in them. You willingly give your power to these meaningless thoughts so that they can destroy you with it. See the absurdity in that. Also, never try to argue with thoughts, correct them, fight them, get rid of them etc., all of that is more tricks of OCD. You cannot solve OCD inside of the mind, only by stepping outside of the mind and observing it (Awareness). Intrusive thoughts and compulsions are randomly generated and you have absolutely no control over them whatsoever, but you have the power of being able to simply observe them, which will make you realize that you are not these thoughts, which will make them go away if you do it long enough. They only keep coming if they keep getting negative reactions from you. Fully accept and welcome all thoughts, no matter how strange or disturbing they may be. Never resist thoughts. Thoughts have no power over you as long as you don't give it to them. Never feel ashamed, disgusted or shocked by your thoughts, this fuels intrusive thoughts and compulsions immensely. Compulsions and intrusive thoughts thrive on your negative reactions to them. Simply observe them without being irritated by them.
OCD is threatened by Meditation/Awareness, that's why it will try to keep you from practicing them. When you practice Meditation/Awareness, your OCD might try to draw you back into its grasp through anxiety and anxious reactions in the body: tension, racing heart, sweating, stomach/heart pain etc., don't identify with these uncomfortable bodily sensations either and also observe all of this in a detached way. It's all just the OCD trying to trick you and ruin your life. The fact that your OCD will try to keep you from meditating/practicing Awareness should be a clear signal to you that you are on the right path to overcoming it.
Meditating and constantly practicing Awareness might be very hard at first, but don't be discouraged, it will become easier and easier with time, and your OCD and all its symptoms will gradually become better. Even if thoughts still come up, they will not bother you anymore, you will just see them for the random bullshit that they are. The end goal would be to remain in Awareness 24/7, which would make you completely invulnerable to all compulsions and intrusive thoughts.
Also, as corny as it may sound, what's even more important than Meditation and constantly practicing Awareness is fully and unconditionally loving yourself and everybody else and everything else in the world, even the most evil shit you can imagine, even your intrusive thoughts and compulsions. Your world and life have to become completely filled with Love. Negativity and suffering can only thrive where there is a lack of Love. Love repels negativity and suffering like oil repels water.
You WILL get through this if you follow my advice consequently for a long enough time, please trust me for your own sake.
Wishing you all the best and much love my friend. 😊❤
I have so much respect for George, he didn’t need to be open about his personal mental health issues but the fact that he has is just so inspiring. He’s such a talented, genuine and lovely guy that I hope he finds peace with this illness and manages to deal with it daily without being reminded of it. The love I have for him is something else, what a man 💛
It’s crazy because before even being diagnosed with pure O I loved listening to George Ezra, then after experiencing my lowest low and almost not making it back from it I found an article with him sharing his experience with it. I was shook to say the least, knowing an artist I jam to endures the same shit and I didn’t even know it.
So much love to all y’all in the comment section♥️♥️
I'm in my 60s now and I had this for about 3 years from 16 to 19. For me it went back in its box when I got away from home and went to uni. I was so busy, so happy, that I started to forget. It never came back. Not everyone can have such a major life saving change I know. Years later, I heard about a Zen exercise. It's simple, "go away - and don't think about the tiger". Everyone thinks about the tiger ... I can see how TM puts the tiger back in its cage. A brave broadcast.
Great respect for everybody who's opening up like this! ❤️❤️❤️ This is a topic that should be discussed a lot more in public. It would stop the feeling of guilt and shame, each OCD sufferer has.
I suffer from pure ocd myself. I didn't realise until my 20s that what I had was intrusive thoughts. CBT has really helped me though :) hope it gets more awareness x
@@robertnettleship5467 I feel like I got kind of lucky, I have ocd, mine mostly occurs in my thought process. It's always intrusive but I went to CBT since I was 12. I'm 17 now, its helped a lot.
@@Eden68161 I hope by CBT, you both mean ERP (Exposure and Response Prevention Therapy). Regular CBT usually makes OCD worse, not better, because it provides reassurance and encourages mental compulsions like thought suppression and thought neutralization.
@@gymnasticsgirlie0647 It actually doesn't erp is literally the most common method amongst cbt therapists to treat ocd, as it's a literal form of cbt. bro-
I feel you brother ❤️ suffered for 18 years and didn’t know what was going on in my head it was like living hell. As soon as I was diagnosed my life changed. All the best George
I have Pure O and am also an aspiring musician, hearing this from someone who inspires me so much is so relaxing and great to hear
Yeah same I have it too it pushed me to start making music I guess thats only thing in grateful for
His story of OCD could have come from my own mouth. The fear of telling someone about those thoughts is so great, it makes things worse. The graphic thoughts that keep repeating, and the social anxiety it creates. The depression it brings. The manic highs. The battle against self medication using alcohol and drugs to numb the mind. Tourettes in the form of physical and verbal ticks that i battle with myself to stop when they aggressively take hold. And the exhaustion, that's real killer. Every single day feeling like a whole week. It became so bad my mind reacted by going into fight or fight mode. For seven long years, from dawn till dusk, my senses were overloaded, I had vertigo continuously, became depersonalised from the world. My marriage ended. And yet, the day you have that moment of knowing you're not alone changes everything, it's amazing. But then came years of therapy and, as a last resort, medication, trying to put the pieces together about why my mind behaves this way. Trying to accept it's not going away yet unable to accept why it's even there. I was eventually diagnosed with Complex PTSD. My existence alone in my adult mind was a product of a lonely, loveless, bullied childhood. And while I am much better now, just a little stress triggers my mind into overdrive and I'm back again. I don't think I'll ever be in a relationship again, that's the pay off for living a life where getting through each day doesn't end with me not wanting to wake up. I'm happier and more settled than I've ever been though, and I'm grateful for that. And grateful I could write that down on a public post.
i really enjoyed george’s dialog on pure o. i’ve been in treatment for the last 8 months for pure o and meditation has helped me a ton. for me as well engaging with/producing art, self-love affirmations, and journaling have also been a huge help!
to anyone dealing with pure o know you’re not alone & it does get better!
Nice, how has the meditation gone? Still helping?
What medication do you take
@@Bigdogstusks I took SSRI's. for me I didn't feel good until I understood myself. which came from intense introspecition and self love. SSRI's helped but wasn't the fix. I wish you luck in you journey :)
@@Moose808 helping but meditation and introspection helps the most.
Thank you for talking about this I’ve suffered with this since I was a child and thought I was a terrible person because of this condition
If you have OCD (compulsions and/or intrusive thoughts), do the following practice and your compulsions and intrusive thoughts WILL 100% get better and most likely even completely vanish if you apply this advice for long enough, you have to do this if you want to get better, there is no way around it:
Meditate daily, ideally 30-60+ minutes, but you can start with 5+ minutes and work your way up. I recommend Vipassana meditation, which simply means putting your attention on the bodily sensations of breathing.
Meditation is essentially about one thing: Practicing Awareness. Sitting meditation is an intentional, focused practice of Awareness, but it's just the beginning. You also have to practice Awareness when you are not sitting down to meditate. You basically have to meditate/practice Awareness 24/7, no matter what you are doing, no matter how many thoughts come up and no matter how much you suffer mentally and physically.
Practicing Awareness means simply observing your thoughts and compulsions (and also emotions, sensory perceptions, bodily sensations, pain etc., basically everything you experience) in a distanced and detached way. You have to realize that you ARE the observer/the Awareness that is free from all experience. YOU ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS AND COMPULSIONS. You are free from your thoughts, your thoughts just fool you into believing that they are real. Thoughts are just randomly generated bullshit, don't ever worry about them and don't ever think they are more than that. Never believe ANY thoughts. Do not identify with your thoughts and simply observe them from a distance. Your OCD will try to come up with all kinds of sneaky shit to draw you back into it, but NEVER give in to it, no matter what it says. Examples of sly tricks of OCD would be thoughts like "Meditation/Awareness doesn't work", "Your OCD will never go away" etc., but all these tricks only work because you let yourself get fooled by them, because you believe in them. You willingly give your power to these meaningless thoughts so that they can destroy you with it. See the absurdity in that. Also, never try to argue with thoughts, correct them, fight them, get rid of them etc., all of that is more tricks of OCD. You cannot solve OCD inside of the mind, only by stepping outside of the mind and observing it (Awareness). Intrusive thoughts and compulsions are randomly generated and you have absolutely no control over them whatsoever, but you have the power of being able to simply observe them, which will make you realize that you are not these thoughts, which will make them go away if you do it long enough. They only keep coming if they keep getting negative reactions from you. Fully accept and welcome all thoughts, no matter how strange or disturbing they may be. Never resist thoughts. Thoughts have no power over you as long as you don't give it to them. Never feel ashamed, disgusted or shocked by your thoughts, this fuels intrusive thoughts and compulsions immensely. Compulsions and intrusive thoughts thrive on your negative reactions to them. Simply observe them without being irritated by them.
OCD is threatened by Meditation/Awareness, that's why it will try to keep you from practicing them. When you practice Meditation/Awareness, your OCD might try to draw you back into its grasp through anxiety and anxious reactions in the body: tension, racing heart, sweating, stomach/heart pain etc., don't identify with these uncomfortable bodily sensations either and also observe all of this in a detached way. It's all just the OCD trying to trick you and ruin your life. The fact that your OCD will try to keep you from meditating/practicing Awareness should be a clear signal to you that you are on the right path to overcoming it.
Meditating and constantly practicing Awareness might be very hard at first, but don't be discouraged, it will become easier and easier with time, and your OCD and all its symptoms will gradually become better. Even if thoughts still come up, they will not bother you anymore, you will just see them for the random bullshit that they are. The end goal would be to remain in Awareness 24/7, which would make you completely invulnerable to all compulsions and intrusive thoughts.
Also, as corny as it may sound, what's even more important than Meditation and constantly practicing Awareness is fully and unconditionally loving yourself and everybody else and everything else in the world, even the most evil shit you can imagine, even your intrusive thoughts and compulsions. Your world and life have to become completely filled with Love. Negativity and suffering can only thrive where there is a lack of Love. Love repels negativity and suffering like oil repels water.
You WILL get through this if you follow my advice consequently for a long enough time, please trust me for your own sake.
Wishing you all the best and much love my friend. 😊❤
Thank you so much for this comment, I look forward to practicing meditation. I struggle with intrusive thoughts so I wonder if it'll be difficult
As a person who was currently completely stuck in my own thoughts, I found this video randomly by looking up stuff about Ezra. Reading this comment was something I really needed to hear to shake me out of what's going on inside my head and that these are just that. Thoughts. They don't have control over me and everything will be just fine. So thank you, kind stranger. 😊
Man thanks for commenting things like that you're really helping people
I can see you wrote this comment awhile ago, everything you said is 100 per cent, if people apply what you say they will recover and you could potentially help hundreds of people, where ever you are, God bless you xx
I would like to add the idea that the part of the personality that comes up with the OCD thinking really isn’t bad or evil, it thinks that being vigilant to these worst case scenarios/ideas will help prevent bad stuff happening, but it happens to be so completely off the mark, so wrong in every single way, it’s an inevitable downward spiral, so you do everything this lovely soul recommends in these comments. That is, detach and be the observer. The true self, the wiser self - who you really are, and have always been. The other parts came about in response to earlier adversities experienced when younger. It’s not useful to judge these parts, which are weirdly enough just trying to help- this judgemental attitude only creates internal conflict and stress, and self judgement, which feeds the spiralling downwards. Accepting that the intention of this part is not bad, but so very misguided and strategically destructive, breaks the downward spiralling. We need to be calm and wise, and take leadership from this position of true self, as we would with a struggling and desperate child, or younger person taking a wrong path, and help them find a helpful path. It really is an attitude of kindness and love, self love, for all the parts that is the ultimate answer. I find this in meditation and mindfulness, as well as gratitude etc. Mantra is great. Chanting is my godsend (Krishna Das is a New Yorker with beautiful music and his own amazing journey). These ideas about the Self are from Internal Family Systems Therapy (Dr Richard Schwartz). He has written a book No Bad Parts. I hope this makes sense, and is helpful for someone. I love this thread! Thank you George for opening up this conversation. Very best to you all 🥰
What an amazingly thoughtful guy, I never was too keen on his music so I'm blown away
It’s so important that someone like him, talks about it. All my life I thought something was wrong with me. After know that in my case was ADHD, everything changed. Thank you George to talk about it. You definitely can help others. 🙏🏼
I really connected with this conversation. Thank you 🙏🏼.
Imagine being lucky enough to make your yt name your actual name
Yes I feel very sorry for him
Only just seen this.. thank you to George for being so open. It is incredibly helpful when celebrities do this and help crush the stigma that has been associated with mental health by confirming that mental health disorders are mere health conditions that are nothing at all to be ashamed of. I am sure we are actually in the majority rather than minority, if we asked every person in the UK. I too have OCD (contamination based) and the more we are able to open up and educate, the faster people will realise that there is no way it should be any more of a taboo subject than any physical, such as having a heart condition or a broken leg. I truly hope that I will see mental health being treated on a par with physical health within my lifetime. xx
All these celebrities announcing their OCD diagnoses, and announcing how terrible it is, make ME feel not alone. Thank you
I suffer with Pure OCD and watching this interview really helped me today, thank you for posting it on TH-cam and to George Ezra for talking about 💖
This is ridiculous. How this amazing person could feel not worthy. Maybe it's because of high sensitivity.
All the best for you Ezra! You are gifted and we wait for your music.
Yes pure o thoughts externally are ridiculous
Hi George, you have helped a lot of people out there. I have OCD and you are letting people understand that they can live with Pure O or OCD and your experience of Meditation is so real. I have just learnt that you can meditate in many ways like being in the zone when you are performing a task or taking a swim or walk for example. Thank you for being You George 💜
You are helping so many people. I have had this over 53 years and is nice to know we are not alone and there are treatments for this. If I can suggest more there are many resources on TH-cam including the OCD Foundation. God Bless.
If you have OCD (compulsions and/or intrusive thoughts), do the following practice and your compulsions and intrusive thoughts WILL 100% get better and most likely even completely vanish if you apply this advice for long enough, you have to do this if you want to get better, there is no way around it:
Meditate daily, ideally 30-60+ minutes, but you can start with 5+ minutes and work your way up. I recommend Vipassana meditation, which simply means putting your attention on the bodily sensations of breathing.
Meditation is essentially about one thing: Practicing Awareness. Sitting meditation is an intentional, focused practice of Awareness, but it's just the beginning. You also have to practice Awareness when you are not sitting down to meditate. You basically have to meditate/practice Awareness 24/7, no matter what you are doing, no matter how many thoughts come up and no matter how much you suffer mentally and physically.
Practicing Awareness means simply observing your thoughts and compulsions (and also emotions, sensory perceptions, bodily sensations, pain etc., basically everything you experience) in a distanced and detached way. You have to realize that you ARE the observer/the Awareness that is free from all experience. YOU ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS AND COMPULSIONS. You are free from your thoughts, your thoughts just fool you into believing that they are real. Thoughts are just randomly generated bullshit, don't ever worry about them and don't ever think they are more than that. Never believe ANY thoughts. Do not identify with your thoughts and simply observe them from a distance. Your OCD will try to come up with all kinds of sneaky shit to draw you back into it, but NEVER give in to it, no matter what it says. Examples of sly tricks of OCD would be thoughts like "Meditation/Awareness doesn't work", "Your OCD will never go away" etc., but all these tricks only work because you let yourself get fooled by them, because you believe in them. You willingly give your power to these meaningless thoughts so that they can destroy you with it. See the absurdity in that. Also, never try to argue with thoughts, correct them, fight them, get rid of them etc., all of that is more tricks of OCD. You cannot solve OCD inside of the mind, only by stepping outside of the mind and observing it (Awareness). Intrusive thoughts and compulsions are randomly generated and you have absolutely no control over them whatsoever, but you have the power of being able to simply observe them, which will make you realize that you are not these thoughts, which will make them go away if you do it long enough. They only keep coming if they keep getting negative reactions from you. Fully accept and welcome all thoughts, no matter how strange or disturbing they may be. Never resist thoughts. Thoughts have no power over you as long as you don't give it to them. Never feel ashamed, disgusted or shocked by your thoughts, this fuels intrusive thoughts and compulsions immensely. Compulsions and intrusive thoughts thrive on your negative reactions to them. Simply observe them without being irritated by them.
OCD is threatened by Meditation/Awareness, that's why it will try to keep you from practicing them. When you practice Meditation/Awareness, your OCD might try to draw you back into its grasp through anxiety and anxious reactions in the body: tension, racing heart, sweating, stomach/heart pain etc., don't identify with these uncomfortable bodily sensations either and also observe all of this in a detached way. It's all just the OCD trying to trick you and ruin your life. The fact that your OCD will try to keep you from meditating/practicing Awareness should be a clear signal to you that you are on the right path to overcoming it.
Meditating and constantly practicing Awareness might be very hard at first, but don't be discouraged, it will become easier and easier with time, and your OCD and all its symptoms will gradually become better. Even if thoughts still come up, they will not bother you anymore, you will just see them for the random bullshit that they are. The end goal would be to remain in Awareness 24/7, which would make you completely invulnerable to all compulsions and intrusive thoughts.
Also, as corny as it may sound, what's even more important than Meditation and constantly practicing Awareness is fully and unconditionally loving yourself and everybody else and everything else in the world, even the most evil shit you can imagine, even your intrusive thoughts and compulsions. Your world and life have to become completely filled with Love. Negativity and suffering can only thrive where there is a lack of Love. Love repels negativity and suffering like oil repels water.
You WILL get through this if you follow my advice consequently for a long enough time, please trust me for your own sake.
Wishing you all the best and much love my friend. 😊❤
I love it when celebrities feel comfortable to open up about how they feel and they don’t realise how that 6 minute video on TH-cam will actually help some people, it’s even helped me a bit. Thank you George Ezra 💚
i want to cry ! wish you well, you make me smile it hurts to see you have problems you bring joy to alot of people hang in there
If you have OCD (compulsions and/or intrusive thoughts), do the following practice and your compulsions and intrusive thoughts WILL 100% get better and most likely even completely vanish if you apply this advice for long enough, you have to do this if you want to get better, there is no way around it:
Meditate daily, ideally 30-60+ minutes, but you can start with 5+ minutes and work your way up. I recommend Vipassana meditation, which simply means putting your attention on the bodily sensations of breathing.
Meditation is essentially about one thing: Practicing Awareness. Sitting meditation is an intentional, focused practice of Awareness, but it's just the beginning. You also have to practice Awareness when you are not sitting down to meditate. You basically have to meditate/practice Awareness 24/7, no matter what you are doing, no matter how many thoughts come up and no matter how much you suffer mentally and physically.
Practicing Awareness means simply observing your thoughts and compulsions (and also emotions, sensory perceptions, bodily sensations, pain etc., basically everything you experience) in a distanced and detached way. You have to realize that you ARE the observer/the Awareness that is free from all experience. YOU ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS AND COMPULSIONS. You are free from your thoughts, your thoughts just fool you into believing that they are real. Thoughts are just randomly generated bullshit, don't ever worry about them and don't ever think they are more than that. Never believe ANY thoughts. Do not identify with your thoughts and simply observe them from a distance. Your OCD will try to come up with all kinds of sneaky shit to draw you back into it, but NEVER give in to it, no matter what it says. Examples of sly tricks of OCD would be thoughts like "Meditation/Awareness doesn't work", "Your OCD will never go away" etc., but all these tricks only work because you let yourself get fooled by them, because you believe in them. You willingly give your power to these meaningless thoughts so that they can destroy you with it. See the absurdity in that. Also, never try to argue with thoughts, correct them, fight them, get rid of them etc., all of that is more tricks of OCD. You cannot solve OCD inside of the mind, only by stepping outside of the mind and observing it (Awareness). Intrusive thoughts and compulsions are randomly generated and you have absolutely no control over them whatsoever, but you have the power of being able to simply observe them, which will make you realize that you are not these thoughts, which will make them go away if you do it long enough. They only keep coming if they keep getting negative reactions from you. Fully accept and welcome all thoughts, no matter how strange or disturbing they may be. Never resist thoughts. Thoughts have no power over you as long as you don't give it to them. Never feel ashamed, disgusted or shocked by your thoughts, this fuels intrusive thoughts and compulsions immensely. Compulsions and intrusive thoughts thrive on your negative reactions to them. Simply observe them without being irritated by them.
OCD is threatened by Meditation/Awareness, that's why it will try to keep you from practicing them. When you practice Meditation/Awareness, your OCD might try to draw you back into its grasp through anxiety and anxious reactions in the body: tension, racing heart, sweating, stomach/heart pain etc., don't identify with these uncomfortable bodily sensations either and also observe all of this in a detached way. It's all just the OCD trying to trick you and ruin your life. The fact that your OCD will try to keep you from meditating/practicing Awareness should be a clear signal to you that you are on the right path to overcoming it.
Meditating and constantly practicing Awareness might be very hard at first, but don't be discouraged, it will become easier and easier with time, and your OCD and all its symptoms will gradually become better. Even if thoughts still come up, they will not bother you anymore, you will just see them for the random bullshit that they are. The end goal would be to remain in Awareness 24/7, which would make you completely invulnerable to all compulsions and intrusive thoughts.
Also, as corny as it may sound, what's even more important than Meditation and constantly practicing Awareness is fully and unconditionally loving yourself and everybody else and everything else in the world, even the most evil shit you can imagine, even your intrusive thoughts and compulsions. Your world and life have to become completely filled with Love. Negativity and suffering can only thrive where there is a lack of Love. Love repels negativity and suffering like oil repels water.
You WILL get through this if you follow my advice consequently for a long enough time, please trust me for your own sake.
Wishing you all the best and much love my friend. 😊❤
Great guy, this has given me a lot of respect for him 👊
If you have OCD (compulsions and/or intrusive thoughts), do the following practice and your compulsions and intrusive thoughts WILL 100% get better and most likely even completely vanish if you apply this advice for long enough, you have to do this if you want to get better, there is no way around it:
Meditate daily, ideally 30-60+ minutes, but you can start with 5+ minutes and work your way up. I recommend Vipassana meditation, which simply means putting your attention on the bodily sensations of breathing.
Meditation is essentially about one thing: Practicing Awareness. Sitting meditation is an intentional, focused practice of Awareness, but it's just the beginning. You also have to practice Awareness when you are not sitting down to meditate. You basically have to meditate/practice Awareness 24/7, no matter what you are doing, no matter how many thoughts come up and no matter how much you suffer mentally and physically.
Practicing Awareness means simply observing your thoughts and compulsions (and also emotions, sensory perceptions, bodily sensations, pain etc., basically everything you experience) in a distanced and detached way. You have to realize that you ARE the observer/the Awareness that is free from all experience. YOU ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS AND COMPULSIONS. You are free from your thoughts, your thoughts just fool you into believing that they are real. Thoughts are just randomly generated bullshit, don't ever worry about them and don't ever think they are more than that. Never believe ANY thoughts. Do not identify with your thoughts and simply observe them from a distance. Your OCD will try to come up with all kinds of sneaky shit to draw you back into it, but NEVER give in to it, no matter what it says. Examples of sly tricks of OCD would be thoughts like "Meditation/Awareness doesn't work", "Your OCD will never go away" etc., but all these tricks only work because you let yourself get fooled by them, because you believe in them. You willingly give your power to these meaningless thoughts so that they can destroy you with it. See the absurdity in that. Also, never try to argue with thoughts, correct them, fight them, get rid of them etc., all of that is more tricks of OCD. You cannot solve OCD inside of the mind, only by stepping outside of the mind and observing it (Awareness). Intrusive thoughts and compulsions are randomly generated and you have absolutely no control over them whatsoever, but you have the power of being able to simply observe them, which will make you realize that you are not these thoughts, which will make them go away if you do it long enough. They only keep coming if they keep getting negative reactions from you. Fully accept and welcome all thoughts, no matter how strange or disturbing they may be. Never resist thoughts. Thoughts have no power over you as long as you don't give it to them. Never feel ashamed, disgusted or shocked by your thoughts, this fuels intrusive thoughts and compulsions immensely. Compulsions and intrusive thoughts thrive on your negative reactions to them. Simply observe them without being irritated by them.
OCD is threatened by Meditation/Awareness, that's why it will try to keep you from practicing them. When you practice Meditation/Awareness, your OCD might try to draw you back into its grasp through anxiety and anxious reactions in the body: tension, racing heart, sweating, stomach/heart pain etc., don't identify with these uncomfortable bodily sensations either and also observe all of this in a detached way. It's all just the OCD trying to trick you and ruin your life. The fact that your OCD will try to keep you from meditating/practicing Awareness should be a clear signal to you that you are on the right path to overcoming it.
Meditating and constantly practicing Awareness might be very hard at first, but don't be discouraged, it will become easier and easier with time, and your OCD and all its symptoms will gradually become better. Even if thoughts still come up, they will not bother you anymore, you will just see them for the random bullshit that they are. The end goal would be to remain in Awareness 24/7, which would make you completely invulnerable to all compulsions and intrusive thoughts.
Also, as corny as it may sound, what's even more important than Meditation and constantly practicing Awareness is fully and unconditionally loving yourself and everybody else and everything else in the world, even the most evil shit you can imagine, even your intrusive thoughts and compulsions. Your world and life have to become completely filled with Love. Negativity and suffering can only thrive where there is a lack of Love. Love repels negativity and suffering like oil repels water.
You WILL get through this if you follow my advice consequently for a long enough time, please trust me for your own sake.
Wishing you all the best and much love my friend. 😊❤
As someone with severe OCD, often times pure o, thank u. Im glad ur in recovery as well :)
This explains me perfectly its just crap I've had it since I was really young
If u have OCD it’s a brain “blip” you are born with but may only experience it when u are older
I wish you and yours well.
If you have OCD (compulsions and/or intrusive thoughts), do the following practice and your compulsions and intrusive thoughts WILL 100% get better and most likely even completely vanish if you apply this advice for long enough, you have to do this if you want to get better, there is no way around it:
Meditate daily, ideally 30-60+ minutes, but you can start with 5+ minutes and work your way up. I recommend Vipassana meditation, which simply means putting your attention on the bodily sensations of breathing.
Meditation is essentially about one thing: Practicing Awareness. Sitting meditation is an intentional, focused practice of Awareness, but it's just the beginning. You also have to practice Awareness when you are not sitting down to meditate. You basically have to meditate/practice Awareness 24/7, no matter what you are doing, no matter how many thoughts come up and no matter how much you suffer mentally and physically.
Practicing Awareness means simply observing your thoughts and compulsions (and also emotions, sensory perceptions, bodily sensations, pain etc., basically everything you experience) in a distanced and detached way. You have to realize that you ARE the observer/the Awareness that is free from all experience. YOU ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS AND COMPULSIONS. You are free from your thoughts, your thoughts just fool you into believing that they are real. Thoughts are just randomly generated bullshit, don't ever worry about them and don't ever think they are more than that. Never believe ANY thoughts. Do not identify with your thoughts and simply observe them from a distance. Your OCD will try to come up with all kinds of sneaky shit to draw you back into it, but NEVER give in to it, no matter what it says. Examples of sly tricks of OCD would be thoughts like "Meditation/Awareness doesn't work", "Your OCD will never go away" etc., but all these tricks only work because you let yourself get fooled by them, because you believe in them. You willingly give your power to these meaningless thoughts so that they can destroy you with it. See the absurdity in that. Also, never try to argue with thoughts, correct them, fight them, get rid of them etc., all of that is more tricks of OCD. You cannot solve OCD inside of the mind, only by stepping outside of the mind and observing it (Awareness). Intrusive thoughts and compulsions are randomly generated and you have absolutely no control over them whatsoever, but you have the power of being able to simply observe them, which will make you realize that you are not these thoughts, which will make them go away if you do it long enough. They only keep coming if they keep getting negative reactions from you. Fully accept and welcome all thoughts, no matter how strange or disturbing they may be. Never resist thoughts. Thoughts have no power over you as long as you don't give it to them. Never feel ashamed, disgusted or shocked by your thoughts, this fuels intrusive thoughts and compulsions immensely. Compulsions and intrusive thoughts thrive on your negative reactions to them. Simply observe them without being irritated by them.
OCD is threatened by Meditation/Awareness, that's why it will try to keep you from practicing them. When you practice Meditation/Awareness, your OCD might try to draw you back into its grasp through anxiety and anxious reactions in the body: tension, racing heart, sweating, stomach/heart pain etc., don't identify with these uncomfortable bodily sensations either and also observe all of this in a detached way. It's all just the OCD trying to trick you and ruin your life. The fact that your OCD will try to keep you from meditating/practicing Awareness should be a clear signal to you that you are on the right path to overcoming it.
Meditating and constantly practicing Awareness might be very hard at first, but don't be discouraged, it will become easier and easier with time, and your OCD and all its symptoms will gradually become better. Even if thoughts still come up, they will not bother you anymore, you will just see them for the random bullshit that they are. The end goal would be to remain in Awareness 24/7, which would make you completely invulnerable to all compulsions and intrusive thoughts.
Also, as corny as it may sound, what's even more important than Meditation and constantly practicing Awareness is fully and unconditionally loving yourself and everybody else and everything else in the world, even the most evil shit you can imagine, even your intrusive thoughts and compulsions. Your world and life have to become completely filled with Love. Negativity and suffering can only thrive where there is a lack of Love. Love repels negativity and suffering like oil repels water.
You WILL get through this if you follow my advice consequently for a long enough time, please trust me for your own sake.
Wishing you all the best and much love my friend. 😊❤
@@Em-un8gw If you have OCD (compulsions and/or intrusive thoughts), do the following practice and your compulsions and intrusive thoughts WILL 100% get better and most likely even completely vanish if you apply this advice for long enough, you have to do this if you want to get better, there is no way around it:
Meditate daily, ideally 30-60+ minutes, but you can start with 5+ minutes and work your way up. I recommend Vipassana meditation, which simply means putting your attention on the bodily sensations of breathing.
Meditation is essentially about one thing: Practicing Awareness. Sitting meditation is an intentional, focused practice of Awareness, but it's just the beginning. You also have to practice Awareness when you are not sitting down to meditate. You basically have to meditate/practice Awareness 24/7, no matter what you are doing, no matter how many thoughts come up and no matter how much you suffer mentally and physically.
Practicing Awareness means simply observing your thoughts and compulsions (and also emotions, sensory perceptions, bodily sensations, pain etc., basically everything you experience) in a distanced and detached way. You have to realize that you ARE the observer/the Awareness that is free from all experience. YOU ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS AND COMPULSIONS. You are free from your thoughts, your thoughts just fool you into believing that they are real. Thoughts are just randomly generated bullshit, don't ever worry about them and don't ever think they are more than that. Never believe ANY thoughts. Do not identify with your thoughts and simply observe them from a distance. Your OCD will try to come up with all kinds of sneaky shit to draw you back into it, but NEVER give in to it, no matter what it says. Examples of sly tricks of OCD would be thoughts like "Meditation/Awareness doesn't work", "Your OCD will never go away" etc., but all these tricks only work because you let yourself get fooled by them, because you believe in them. You willingly give your power to these meaningless thoughts so that they can destroy you with it. See the absurdity in that. Also, never try to argue with thoughts, correct them, fight them, get rid of them etc., all of that is more tricks of OCD. You cannot solve OCD inside of the mind, only by stepping outside of the mind and observing it (Awareness). Intrusive thoughts and compulsions are randomly generated and you have absolutely no control over them whatsoever, but you have the power of being able to simply observe them, which will make you realize that you are not these thoughts, which will make them go away if you do it long enough. They only keep coming if they keep getting negative reactions from you. Fully accept and welcome all thoughts, no matter how strange or disturbing they may be. Never resist thoughts. Thoughts have no power over you as long as you don't give it to them. Never feel ashamed, disgusted or shocked by your thoughts, this fuels intrusive thoughts and compulsions immensely. Compulsions and intrusive thoughts thrive on your negative reactions to them. Simply observe them without being irritated by them.
OCD is threatened by Meditation/Awareness, that's why it will try to keep you from practicing them. When you practice Meditation/Awareness, your OCD might try to draw you back into its grasp through anxiety and anxious reactions in the body: tension, racing heart, sweating, stomach/heart pain etc., don't identify with these uncomfortable bodily sensations either and also observe all of this in a detached way. It's all just the OCD trying to trick you and ruin your life. The fact that your OCD will try to keep you from meditating/practicing Awareness should be a clear signal to you that you are on the right path to overcoming it.
Meditating and constantly practicing Awareness might be very hard at first, but don't be discouraged, it will become easier and easier with time, and your OCD and all its symptoms will gradually become better. Even if thoughts still come up, they will not bother you anymore, you will just see them for the random bullshit that they are. The end goal would be to remain in Awareness 24/7, which would make you completely invulnerable to all compulsions and intrusive thoughts.
Also, as corny as it may sound, what's even more important than Meditation and constantly practicing Awareness is fully and unconditionally loving yourself and everybody else and everything else in the world, even the most evil shit you can imagine, even your intrusive thoughts and compulsions. Your world and life have to become completely filled with Love. Negativity and suffering can only thrive where there is a lack of Love. Love repels negativity and suffering like oil repels water.
You WILL get through this if you follow my advice consequently for a long enough time, please trust me for your own sake.
Wishing you all the best and much love my friend. 😊❤
@@feelsokayman3959 jeez tysm I will try
i was completely unaware george had this! I suffer with this as well but im undiagnosed
Wow, wouldn't have expected George Ezra to experience the same shit. Hope all becomes well for him ans all the rest of you experiencing this bullshit.
I started getting those thoughts after going to study music production about a year ago, and hanging around with people who had "given up" on life. i slowly started to feel depressed, and more and more weird annoying thoughts started piling into my head until, as george said "whats the worse thing that I could think": but its more like a feeling i get before the thoughts come in, but tbh I'm over it, a lot of the thoughts can be pretty funny in a dark humoured sense but when they started to come it was really scary.
If you have OCD (compulsions and/or intrusive thoughts), do the following practice and your compulsions and intrusive thoughts WILL 100% get better and most likely even completely vanish if you apply this advice for long enough, you have to do this if you want to get better, there is no way around it:
Meditate daily, ideally 30-60+ minutes, but you can start with 5+ minutes and work your way up. I recommend Vipassana meditation, which simply means putting your attention on the bodily sensations of breathing.
Meditation is essentially about one thing: Practicing Awareness. Sitting meditation is an intentional, focused practice of Awareness, but it's just the beginning. You also have to practice Awareness when you are not sitting down to meditate. You basically have to meditate/practice Awareness 24/7, no matter what you are doing, no matter how many thoughts come up and no matter how much you suffer mentally and physically.
Practicing Awareness means simply observing your thoughts and compulsions (and also emotions, sensory perceptions, bodily sensations, pain etc., basically everything you experience) in a distanced and detached way. You have to realize that you ARE the observer/the Awareness that is free from all experience. YOU ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS AND COMPULSIONS. You are free from your thoughts, your thoughts just fool you into believing that they are real. Thoughts are just randomly generated bullshit, don't ever worry about them and don't ever think they are more than that. Never believe ANY thoughts. Do not identify with your thoughts and simply observe them from a distance. Your OCD will try to come up with all kinds of sneaky shit to draw you back into it, but NEVER give in to it, no matter what it says. Examples of sly tricks of OCD would be thoughts like "Meditation/Awareness doesn't work", "Your OCD will never go away" etc., but all these tricks only work because you let yourself get fooled by them, because you believe in them. You willingly give your power to these meaningless thoughts so that they can destroy you with it. See the absurdity in that. Also, never try to argue with thoughts, correct them, fight them, get rid of them etc., all of that is more tricks of OCD. You cannot solve OCD inside of the mind, only by stepping outside of the mind and observing it (Awareness). Intrusive thoughts and compulsions are randomly generated and you have absolutely no control over them whatsoever, but you have the power of being able to simply observe them, which will make you realize that you are not these thoughts, which will make them go away if you do it long enough. They only keep coming if they keep getting negative reactions from you. Fully accept and welcome all thoughts, no matter how strange or disturbing they may be. Never resist thoughts. Thoughts have no power over you as long as you don't give it to them. Never feel ashamed, disgusted or shocked by your thoughts, this fuels intrusive thoughts and compulsions immensely. Compulsions and intrusive thoughts thrive on your negative reactions to them. Simply observe them without being irritated by them.
OCD is threatened by Meditation/Awareness, that's why it will try to keep you from practicing them. When you practice Meditation/Awareness, your OCD might try to draw you back into its grasp through anxiety and anxious reactions in the body: tension, racing heart, sweating, stomach/heart pain etc., don't identify with these uncomfortable bodily sensations either and also observe all of this in a detached way. It's all just the OCD trying to trick you and ruin your life. The fact that your OCD will try to keep you from meditating/practicing Awareness should be a clear signal to you that you are on the right path to overcoming it.
Meditating and constantly practicing Awareness might be very hard at first, but don't be discouraged, it will become easier and easier with time, and your OCD and all its symptoms will gradually become better. Even if thoughts still come up, they will not bother you anymore, you will just see them for the random bullshit that they are. The end goal would be to remain in Awareness 24/7, which would make you completely invulnerable to all compulsions and intrusive thoughts.
Also, as corny as it may sound, what's even more important than Meditation and constantly practicing Awareness is fully and unconditionally loving yourself and everybody else and everything else in the world, even the most evil shit you can imagine, even your intrusive thoughts and compulsions. Your world and life have to become completely filled with Love. Negativity and suffering can only thrive where there is a lack of Love. Love repels negativity and suffering like oil repels water.
You WILL get through this if you follow my advice consequently for a long enough time, please trust me for your own sake.
Wishing you all the best and much love my friend. 😊❤
Thanks George your not alone we support you. We just have brains 🧠 like this and maybe one day a cure will be found.
No he has ocd not everyone has it. Everyone has bad thoughts and worry and sadness but not everyone has ocd!
If you have OCD (compulsions and/or intrusive thoughts), do the following practice and your compulsions and intrusive thoughts WILL 100% get better and most likely even completely vanish if you apply this advice for long enough, you have to do this if you want to get better, there is no way around it:
Meditate daily, ideally 30-60+ minutes, but you can start with 5+ minutes and work your way up. I recommend Vipassana meditation, which simply means putting your attention on the bodily sensations of breathing.
Meditation is essentially about one thing: Practicing Awareness. Sitting meditation is an intentional, focused practice of Awareness, but it's just the beginning. You also have to practice Awareness when you are not sitting down to meditate. You basically have to meditate/practice Awareness 24/7, no matter what you are doing, no matter how many thoughts come up and no matter how much you suffer mentally and physically.
Practicing Awareness means simply observing your thoughts and compulsions (and also emotions, sensory perceptions, bodily sensations, pain etc., basically everything you experience) in a distanced and detached way. You have to realize that you ARE the observer/the Awareness that is free from all experience. YOU ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS AND COMPULSIONS. You are free from your thoughts, your thoughts just fool you into believing that they are real. Thoughts are just randomly generated bullshit, don't ever worry about them and don't ever think they are more than that. Never believe ANY thoughts. Do not identify with your thoughts and simply observe them from a distance. Your OCD will try to come up with all kinds of sneaky shit to draw you back into it, but NEVER give in to it, no matter what it says. Examples of sly tricks of OCD would be thoughts like "Meditation/Awareness doesn't work", "Your OCD will never go away" etc., but all these tricks only work because you let yourself get fooled by them, because you believe in them. You willingly give your power to these meaningless thoughts so that they can destroy you with it. See the absurdity in that. Also, never try to argue with thoughts, correct them, fight them, get rid of them etc., all of that is more tricks of OCD. You cannot solve OCD inside of the mind, only by stepping outside of the mind and observing it (Awareness). Intrusive thoughts and compulsions are randomly generated and you have absolutely no control over them whatsoever, but you have the power of being able to simply observe them, which will make you realize that you are not these thoughts, which will make them go away if you do it long enough. They only keep coming if they keep getting negative reactions from you. Fully accept and welcome all thoughts, no matter how strange or disturbing they may be. Never resist thoughts. Thoughts have no power over you as long as you don't give it to them. Never feel ashamed, disgusted or shocked by your thoughts, this fuels intrusive thoughts and compulsions immensely. Compulsions and intrusive thoughts thrive on your negative reactions to them. Simply observe them without being irritated by them.
OCD is threatened by Meditation/Awareness, that's why it will try to keep you from practicing them. When you practice Meditation/Awareness, your OCD might try to draw you back into its grasp through anxiety and anxious reactions in the body: tension, racing heart, sweating, stomach/heart pain etc., don't identify with these uncomfortable bodily sensations either and also observe all of this in a detached way. It's all just the OCD trying to trick you and ruin your life. The fact that your OCD will try to keep you from meditating/practicing Awareness should be a clear signal to you that you are on the right path to overcoming it.
Meditating and constantly practicing Awareness might be very hard at first, but don't be discouraged, it will become easier and easier with time, and your OCD and all its symptoms will gradually become better. Even if thoughts still come up, they will not bother you anymore, you will just see them for the random bullshit that they are. The end goal would be to remain in Awareness 24/7, which would make you completely invulnerable to all compulsions and intrusive thoughts.
Also, as corny as it may sound, what's even more important than Meditation and constantly practicing Awareness is fully and unconditionally loving yourself and everybody else and everything else in the world, even the most evil shit you can imagine, even your intrusive thoughts and compulsions. Your world and life have to become completely filled with Love. Negativity and suffering can only thrive where there is a lack of Love. Love repels negativity and suffering like oil repels water.
You WILL get through this if you follow my advice consequently for a long enough time, please trust me for your own sake.
Wishing you all the best and much love my friend. 😊❤
@@Em-un8gw If you have OCD (compulsions and/or intrusive thoughts), do the following practice and your compulsions and intrusive thoughts WILL 100% get better and most likely even completely vanish if you apply this advice for long enough, you have to do this if you want to get better, there is no way around it:
Meditate daily, ideally 30-60+ minutes, but you can start with 5+ minutes and work your way up. I recommend Vipassana meditation, which simply means putting your attention on the bodily sensations of breathing.
Meditation is essentially about one thing: Practicing Awareness. Sitting meditation is an intentional, focused practice of Awareness, but it's just the beginning. You also have to practice Awareness when you are not sitting down to meditate. You basically have to meditate/practice Awareness 24/7, no matter what you are doing, no matter how many thoughts come up and no matter how much you suffer mentally and physically.
Practicing Awareness means simply observing your thoughts and compulsions (and also emotions, sensory perceptions, bodily sensations, pain etc., basically everything you experience) in a distanced and detached way. You have to realize that you ARE the observer/the Awareness that is free from all experience. YOU ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS AND COMPULSIONS. You are free from your thoughts, your thoughts just fool you into believing that they are real. Thoughts are just randomly generated bullshit, don't ever worry about them and don't ever think they are more than that. Never believe ANY thoughts. Do not identify with your thoughts and simply observe them from a distance. Your OCD will try to come up with all kinds of sneaky shit to draw you back into it, but NEVER give in to it, no matter what it says. Examples of sly tricks of OCD would be thoughts like "Meditation/Awareness doesn't work", "Your OCD will never go away" etc., but all these tricks only work because you let yourself get fooled by them, because you believe in them. You willingly give your power to these meaningless thoughts so that they can destroy you with it. See the absurdity in that. Also, never try to argue with thoughts, correct them, fight them, get rid of them etc., all of that is more tricks of OCD. You cannot solve OCD inside of the mind, only by stepping outside of the mind and observing it (Awareness). Intrusive thoughts and compulsions are randomly generated and you have absolutely no control over them whatsoever, but you have the power of being able to simply observe them, which will make you realize that you are not these thoughts, which will make them go away if you do it long enough. They only keep coming if they keep getting negative reactions from you. Fully accept and welcome all thoughts, no matter how strange or disturbing they may be. Never resist thoughts. Thoughts have no power over you as long as you don't give it to them. Never feel ashamed, disgusted or shocked by your thoughts, this fuels intrusive thoughts and compulsions immensely. Compulsions and intrusive thoughts thrive on your negative reactions to them. Simply observe them without being irritated by them.
OCD is threatened by Meditation/Awareness, that's why it will try to keep you from practicing them. When you practice Meditation/Awareness, your OCD might try to draw you back into its grasp through anxiety and anxious reactions in the body: tension, racing heart, sweating, stomach/heart pain etc., don't identify with these uncomfortable bodily sensations either and also observe all of this in a detached way. It's all just the OCD trying to trick you and ruin your life. The fact that your OCD will try to keep you from meditating/practicing Awareness should be a clear signal to you that you are on the right path to overcoming it.
Meditating and constantly practicing Awareness might be very hard at first, but don't be discouraged, it will become easier and easier with time, and your OCD and all its symptoms will gradually become better. Even if thoughts still come up, they will not bother you anymore, you will just see them for the random bullshit that they are. The end goal would be to remain in Awareness 24/7, which would make you completely invulnerable to all compulsions and intrusive thoughts.
Also, as corny as it may sound, what's even more important than Meditation and constantly practicing Awareness is fully and unconditionally loving yourself and everybody else and everything else in the world, even the most evil shit you can imagine, even your intrusive thoughts and compulsions. Your world and life have to become completely filled with Love. Negativity and suffering can only thrive where there is a lack of Love. Love repels negativity and suffering like oil repels water.
You WILL get through this if you follow my advice consequently for a long enough time, please trust me for your own sake.
Wishing you all the best and much love my friend. 😊❤
@@feelsokayman3959 Thank you very much.
Please bring more awareness to ocd
@JOSH Regan they are both awful to deal with
especially with this form as it is not talked about much and many people haven't even heard about it.
the irony is that awareness (mindfulness) is actually the cure to ocd lol
If you have OCD (compulsions and/or intrusive thoughts), do the following practice and your compulsions and intrusive thoughts WILL 100% get better and most likely even completely vanish if you apply this advice for long enough, you have to do this if you want to get better, there is no way around it:
Meditate daily, ideally 30-60+ minutes, but you can start with 5+ minutes and work your way up. I recommend Vipassana meditation, which simply means putting your attention on the bodily sensations of breathing.
Meditation is essentially about one thing: Practicing Awareness. Sitting meditation is an intentional, focused practice of Awareness, but it's just the beginning. You also have to practice Awareness when you are not sitting down to meditate. You basically have to meditate/practice Awareness 24/7, no matter what you are doing, no matter how many thoughts come up and no matter how much you suffer mentally and physically.
Practicing Awareness means simply observing your thoughts and compulsions (and also emotions, sensory perceptions, bodily sensations, pain etc., basically everything you experience) in a distanced and detached way. You have to realize that you ARE the observer/the Awareness that is free from all experience. YOU ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS AND COMPULSIONS. You are free from your thoughts, your thoughts just fool you into believing that they are real. Thoughts are just randomly generated bullshit, don't ever worry about them and don't ever think they are more than that. Never believe ANY thoughts. Do not identify with your thoughts and simply observe them from a distance. Your OCD will try to come up with all kinds of sneaky shit to draw you back into it, but NEVER give in to it, no matter what it says. Examples of sly tricks of OCD would be thoughts like "Meditation/Awareness doesn't work", "Your OCD will never go away" etc., but all these tricks only work because you let yourself get fooled by them, because you believe in them. You willingly give your power to these meaningless thoughts so that they can destroy you with it. See the absurdity in that. Also, never try to argue with thoughts, correct them, fight them, get rid of them etc., all of that is more tricks of OCD. You cannot solve OCD inside of the mind, only by stepping outside of the mind and observing it (Awareness). Intrusive thoughts and compulsions are randomly generated and you have absolutely no control over them whatsoever, but you have the power of being able to simply observe them, which will make you realize that you are not these thoughts, which will make them go away if you do it long enough. They only keep coming if they keep getting negative reactions from you. Fully accept and welcome all thoughts, no matter how strange or disturbing they may be. Never resist thoughts. Thoughts have no power over you as long as you don't give it to them. Never feel ashamed, disgusted or shocked by your thoughts, this fuels intrusive thoughts and compulsions immensely. Compulsions and intrusive thoughts thrive on your negative reactions to them. Simply observe them without being irritated by them.
OCD is threatened by Meditation/Awareness, that's why it will try to keep you from practicing them. When you practice Meditation/Awareness, your OCD might try to draw you back into its grasp through anxiety and anxious reactions in the body: tension, racing heart, sweating, stomach/heart pain etc., don't identify with these uncomfortable bodily sensations either and also observe all of this in a detached way. It's all just the OCD trying to trick you and ruin your life. The fact that your OCD will try to keep you from meditating/practicing Awareness should be a clear signal to you that you are on the right path to overcoming it.
Meditating and constantly practicing Awareness might be very hard at first, but don't be discouraged, it will become easier and easier with time, and your OCD and all its symptoms will gradually become better. Even if thoughts still come up, they will not bother you anymore, you will just see them for the random bullshit that they are. The end goal would be to remain in Awareness 24/7, which would make you completely invulnerable to all compulsions and intrusive thoughts.
Also, as corny as it may sound, what's even more important than Meditation and constantly practicing Awareness is fully and unconditionally loving yourself and everybody else and everything else in the world, even the most evil shit you can imagine, even your intrusive thoughts and compulsions. Your world and life have to become completely filled with Love. Negativity and suffering can only thrive where there is a lack of Love. Love repels negativity and suffering like oil repels water.
You WILL get through this if you follow my advice consequently for a long enough time, please trust me for your own sake.
Wishing you all the best and much love my friend. 😊❤
@@Alina-xu7nn If you have OCD (compulsions and/or intrusive thoughts), do the following practice and your compulsions and intrusive thoughts WILL 100% get better and most likely even completely vanish if you apply this advice for long enough, you have to do this if you want to get better, there is no way around it:
Meditate daily, ideally 30-60+ minutes, but you can start with 5+ minutes and work your way up. I recommend Vipassana meditation, which simply means putting your attention on the bodily sensations of breathing.
Meditation is essentially about one thing: Practicing Awareness. Sitting meditation is an intentional, focused practice of Awareness, but it's just the beginning. You also have to practice Awareness when you are not sitting down to meditate. You basically have to meditate/practice Awareness 24/7, no matter what you are doing, no matter how many thoughts come up and no matter how much you suffer mentally and physically.
Practicing Awareness means simply observing your thoughts and compulsions (and also emotions, sensory perceptions, bodily sensations, pain etc., basically everything you experience) in a distanced and detached way. You have to realize that you ARE the observer/the Awareness that is free from all experience. YOU ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS AND COMPULSIONS. You are free from your thoughts, your thoughts just fool you into believing that they are real. Thoughts are just randomly generated bullshit, don't ever worry about them and don't ever think they are more than that. Never believe ANY thoughts. Do not identify with your thoughts and simply observe them from a distance. Your OCD will try to come up with all kinds of sneaky shit to draw you back into it, but NEVER give in to it, no matter what it says. Examples of sly tricks of OCD would be thoughts like "Meditation/Awareness doesn't work", "Your OCD will never go away" etc., but all these tricks only work because you let yourself get fooled by them, because you believe in them. You willingly give your power to these meaningless thoughts so that they can destroy you with it. See the absurdity in that. Also, never try to argue with thoughts, correct them, fight them, get rid of them etc., all of that is more tricks of OCD. You cannot solve OCD inside of the mind, only by stepping outside of the mind and observing it (Awareness). Intrusive thoughts and compulsions are randomly generated and you have absolutely no control over them whatsoever, but you have the power of being able to simply observe them, which will make you realize that you are not these thoughts, which will make them go away if you do it long enough. They only keep coming if they keep getting negative reactions from you. Fully accept and welcome all thoughts, no matter how strange or disturbing they may be. Never resist thoughts. Thoughts have no power over you as long as you don't give it to them. Never feel ashamed, disgusted or shocked by your thoughts, this fuels intrusive thoughts and compulsions immensely. Compulsions and intrusive thoughts thrive on your negative reactions to them. Simply observe them without being irritated by them.
OCD is threatened by Meditation/Awareness, that's why it will try to keep you from practicing them. When you practice Meditation/Awareness, your OCD might try to draw you back into its grasp through anxiety and anxious reactions in the body: tension, racing heart, sweating, stomach/heart pain etc., don't identify with these uncomfortable bodily sensations either and also observe all of this in a detached way. It's all just the OCD trying to trick you and ruin your life. The fact that your OCD will try to keep you from meditating/practicing Awareness should be a clear signal to you that you are on the right path to overcoming it.
Meditating and constantly practicing Awareness might be very hard at first, but don't be discouraged, it will become easier and easier with time, and your OCD and all its symptoms will gradually become better. Even if thoughts still come up, they will not bother you anymore, you will just see them for the random bullshit that they are. The end goal would be to remain in Awareness 24/7, which would make you completely invulnerable to all compulsions and intrusive thoughts.
Also, as corny as it may sound, what's even more important than Meditation and constantly practicing Awareness is fully and unconditionally loving yourself and everybody else and everything else in the world, even the most evil shit you can imagine, even your intrusive thoughts and compulsions. Your world and life have to become completely filled with Love. Negativity and suffering can only thrive where there is a lack of Love. Love repels negativity and suffering like oil repels water.
You WILL get through this if you follow my advice consequently for a long enough time, please trust me for your own sake.
Wishing you all the best and much love my friend. 😊❤
His last statement is so many people.... class bloke
I never been a fan of his songs but god damn this relates to me. I have thoughts like this and it makes me feel like a bad person and I just want to be a great person. I'm a big fan now of him and this was super brave for him to talk about
"Dig a little, get through the evening." You have no idea how much I relate to that; every day is a mountain climb to get back to my bed, hoping the next day will be the day where I can stop climbing and start flying.
YOUR PARENTS LOVE YOU SO MUCH young man.
This interview was/is really important for me. Thanx!
When you Said it was never going away and it was both relaxing and frigtening at the same time, it was really a good Way to Express it. Thank you!
Thank you, george ezra
He's a voice for many of us sufferers. Pure OCD is a mental prison.
This is the most hard thing to go through it’s mental how realistic it seams when u go through this ur not alone
I HEAVILY APPRECIATE U FOR BRINGING THIS UP!!!
Oh I so sorry for you @george_ezra I hope the music you make and all the fans make you happy
🌹 so much respect for talking about this .. your not alone your an inspiration to more than you know
Never felt so understood on something so painful
I speak very openly about my OCD as well....great to watch you do it as well
If you can defeat pure O I am pretty sure nothing in this world can take you down …. OCD is the worst thing a human being can face … it feels like you are in hell
How are you doing now may I ask ? Many thanks
@@jamesjohnstone1224 I am feeling very good I managed to defeat it .. with the help of ERP , one spoon of honey every morning and exercising I am at my best
@@fy2398 that’s great news I’m so glad for you, can I just clarify then, acceptance is really key here right? Just try and do everything you would normally do with acceptance
@@jamesjohnstone1224 yes you have to accept everything OCD tells you and remember OCD won’t tell you nice things it always capitalise on your worst of fears so be prepared to accept your worst of fears
@@fy2398 it’s going to be difficult, so just carry on with normal things and accept the thoughts as ocd ?
George you are a lovely human being
Thank you George for sharing!!!
Eckhart Tolle is the key for this conditions helped me a lot
❤ exactly my experience 😢 poor guy got help. In 2022 i attempted but through erp and coping mechanisms i can now function. Even led to a house move.
thank you George
As you get older and life reminds you "this is another day and yesterday is done" and I say "anyway, back to my day". Those thoughts started to drift into the background like elevator music,
Focusing on on something else, deliberately is easier than aiming to clear the mind. 😊
What an amazing young man,😘
Love this guy have harm ocd for over 50 years it's he'll at times it's only now I am managing a bit better
I feel you I have pure ocd
🧘♀️ 'it takes one hard second to turn it around'
If you have OCD (compulsions and/or intrusive thoughts), do the following practice and your compulsions and intrusive thoughts WILL 100% get better and most likely even completely vanish if you apply this advice for long enough, you have to do this if you want to get better, there is no way around it:
Meditate daily, ideally 30-60+ minutes, but you can start with 5+ minutes and work your way up. I recommend Vipassana meditation, which simply means putting your attention on the bodily sensations of breathing.
Meditation is essentially about one thing: Practicing Awareness. Sitting meditation is an intentional, focused practice of Awareness, but it's just the beginning. You also have to practice Awareness when you are not sitting down to meditate. You basically have to meditate/practice Awareness 24/7, no matter what you are doing, no matter how many thoughts come up and no matter how much you suffer mentally and physically.
Practicing Awareness means simply observing your thoughts and compulsions (and also emotions, sensory perceptions, bodily sensations, pain etc., basically everything you experience) in a distanced and detached way. You have to realize that you ARE the observer/the Awareness that is free from all experience. YOU ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS AND COMPULSIONS. You are free from your thoughts, your thoughts just fool you into believing that they are real. Thoughts are just randomly generated bullshit, don't ever worry about them and don't ever think they are more than that. Never believe ANY thoughts. Do not identify with your thoughts and simply observe them from a distance. Your OCD will try to come up with all kinds of sneaky shit to draw you back into it, but NEVER give in to it, no matter what it says. Examples of sly tricks of OCD would be thoughts like "Meditation/Awareness doesn't work", "Your OCD will never go away" etc., but all these tricks only work because you let yourself get fooled by them, because you believe in them. You willingly give your power to these meaningless thoughts so that they can destroy you with it. See the absurdity in that. Also, never try to argue with thoughts, correct them, fight them, get rid of them etc., all of that is more tricks of OCD. You cannot solve OCD inside of the mind, only by stepping outside of the mind and observing it (Awareness). Intrusive thoughts and compulsions are randomly generated and you have absolutely no control over them whatsoever, but you have the power of being able to simply observe them, which will make you realize that you are not these thoughts, which will make them go away if you do it long enough. They only keep coming if they keep getting negative reactions from you. Fully accept and welcome all thoughts, no matter how strange or disturbing they may be. Never resist thoughts. Thoughts have no power over you as long as you don't give it to them. Never feel ashamed, disgusted or shocked by your thoughts, this fuels intrusive thoughts and compulsions immensely. Compulsions and intrusive thoughts thrive on your negative reactions to them. Simply observe them without being irritated by them.
OCD is threatened by Meditation/Awareness, that's why it will try to keep you from practicing them. When you practice Meditation/Awareness, your OCD might try to draw you back into its grasp through anxiety and anxious reactions in the body: tension, racing heart, sweating, stomach/heart pain etc., don't identify with these uncomfortable bodily sensations either and also observe all of this in a detached way. It's all just the OCD trying to trick you and ruin your life. The fact that your OCD will try to keep you from meditating/practicing Awareness should be a clear signal to you that you are on the right path to overcoming it.
Meditating and constantly practicing Awareness might be very hard at first, but don't be discouraged, it will become easier and easier with time, and your OCD and all its symptoms will gradually become better. Even if thoughts still come up, they will not bother you anymore, you will just see them for the random bullshit that they are. The end goal would be to remain in Awareness 24/7, which would make you completely invulnerable to all compulsions and intrusive thoughts.
Also, as corny as it may sound, what's even more important than Meditation and constantly practicing Awareness is fully and unconditionally loving yourself and everybody else and everything else in the world, even the most evil shit you can imagine, even your intrusive thoughts and compulsions. Your world and life have to become completely filled with Love. Negativity and suffering can only thrive where there is a lack of Love. Love repels negativity and suffering like oil repels water.
You WILL get through this if you follow my advice consequently for a long enough time, please trust me for your own sake.
Wishing you all the best and much love my friend. 😊❤
It feels like my conscious is attacking me.
That’s exactly how it feels.
How are you doing now may I ask ?
this name "pure o" is kinda simplistic because you still get compulsions, just mental ones, like imagining things that in your mind are "neutralizing" whatever your intrusive thoughts are about. But he was right - obsessions and intrusive thoughts without physical compulsions.
One of my favourite mantras is: I can afford to not worry about anything for the next 3 hrs. 20 minutes out of that I will spend here.
If you aim at 20 minutes, the spectre of needing to tense -up-to-cope-with-a-mad-world looms too close
I would really appreciate for it if you could just release the full version.
Hi, you can listen to the full episode here 👉 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p08pxfr3
@@BBCSounds I suggest releasing the full thing on TH-cam with a still image, like some people do for podcasts or albums or the like. Thank you for this interesting interview!
If you have OCD (compulsions and/or intrusive thoughts), do the following practice and your compulsions and intrusive thoughts WILL 100% get better and most likely even completely vanish if you apply this advice for long enough, you have to do this if you want to get better, there is no way around it:
Meditate daily, ideally 30-60+ minutes, but you can start with 5+ minutes and work your way up. I recommend Vipassana meditation, which simply means putting your attention on the bodily sensations of breathing.
Meditation is essentially about one thing: Practicing Awareness. Sitting meditation is an intentional, focused practice of Awareness, but it's just the beginning. You also have to practice Awareness when you are not sitting down to meditate. You basically have to meditate/practice Awareness 24/7, no matter what you are doing, no matter how many thoughts come up and no matter how much you suffer mentally and physically.
Practicing Awareness means simply observing your thoughts and compulsions (and also emotions, sensory perceptions, bodily sensations, pain etc., basically everything you experience) in a distanced and detached way. You have to realize that you ARE the observer/the Awareness that is free from all experience. YOU ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS AND COMPULSIONS. You are free from your thoughts, your thoughts just fool you into believing that they are real. Thoughts are just randomly generated bullshit, don't ever worry about them and don't ever think they are more than that. Never believe ANY thoughts. Do not identify with your thoughts and simply observe them from a distance. Your OCD will try to come up with all kinds of sneaky shit to draw you back into it, but NEVER give in to it, no matter what it says. Examples of sly tricks of OCD would be thoughts like "Meditation/Awareness doesn't work", "Your OCD will never go away" etc., but all these tricks only work because you let yourself get fooled by them, because you believe in them. You willingly give your power to these meaningless thoughts so that they can destroy you with it. See the absurdity in that. Also, never try to argue with thoughts, correct them, fight them, get rid of them etc., all of that is more tricks of OCD. You cannot solve OCD inside of the mind, only by stepping outside of the mind and observing it (Awareness). Intrusive thoughts and compulsions are randomly generated and you have absolutely no control over them whatsoever, but you have the power of being able to simply observe them, which will make you realize that you are not these thoughts, which will make them go away if you do it long enough. They only keep coming if they keep getting negative reactions from you. Fully accept and welcome all thoughts, no matter how strange or disturbing they may be. Never resist thoughts. Thoughts have no power over you as long as you don't give it to them. Never feel ashamed, disgusted or shocked by your thoughts, this fuels intrusive thoughts and compulsions immensely. Compulsions and intrusive thoughts thrive on your negative reactions to them. Simply observe them without being irritated by them.
OCD is threatened by Meditation/Awareness, that's why it will try to keep you from practicing them. When you practice Meditation/Awareness, your OCD might try to draw you back into its grasp through anxiety and anxious reactions in the body: tension, racing heart, sweating, stomach/heart pain etc., don't identify with these uncomfortable bodily sensations either and also observe all of this in a detached way. It's all just the OCD trying to trick you and ruin your life. The fact that your OCD will try to keep you from meditating/practicing Awareness should be a clear signal to you that you are on the right path to overcoming it.
Meditating and constantly practicing Awareness might be very hard at first, but don't be discouraged, it will become easier and easier with time, and your OCD and all its symptoms will gradually become better. Even if thoughts still come up, they will not bother you anymore, you will just see them for the random bullshit that they are. The end goal would be to remain in Awareness 24/7, which would make you completely invulnerable to all compulsions and intrusive thoughts.
Also, as corny as it may sound, what's even more important than Meditation and constantly practicing Awareness is fully and unconditionally loving yourself and everybody else and everything else in the world, even the most evil shit you can imagine, even your intrusive thoughts and compulsions. Your world and life have to become completely filled with Love. Negativity and suffering can only thrive where there is a lack of Love. Love repels negativity and suffering like oil repels water.
You WILL get through this if you follow my advice consequently for a long enough time, please trust me for your own sake.
Wishing you all the best and much love my friend. 😊❤
The best remedy you can have for this is afternoon naps (or siestas). That will relax your body and your mind a lot more than you'd think.
My family is an example of the genetic component of OCD. My sister and I, my father, his mother and including 5 of her siblings. Terrible outcomes 3 suicides, 2 spent much time in mental hospitals. (a Mennonite family). My OCD is internalized to such an extent that I often lose time when I'm immersed in some rumination. It's terribly disturbing not being present to others who are around you.
Heh, came across this by accident. I really start liking you, sweet G. Never been many men I could relate to honestly, not that I haven´t been head over heels into someone, but they just feel so different mostly. Not with you, though, what is a tiny bit weird. Haven´t expected you to be similar in this going about one thing repeatedly, but then again I found myself in many phrases you would use in your lyrics, pictures you paint with words, interesting thing.
Matthew 11:28-30
New International Version
28 “Come to me,(A) all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.(B) 29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me,(C) for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.(D) 30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”
My heart goes out to you a hero for sharing thank you so much 🧸♥️🧸🌻🌹🌻🌹🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🥰❤💞❤💞🙏🏻💯❤God bless you where ever you go in life wish you good health and happiness 🥰🙏🏻💯💞❤💞🎶🎵💞🎶🎵💞
I think I had this. Thank god I knew about Jung's concept of the shadow. I was more able to accept what I now see to be Pure O symptoms. I imagine it would have been rather different if I'd grown up more believing in the idea of some thoughts being sinful
Has been called for decades GAD generalised anxiety disorder. Why did it take soo long to diagnose this poor young man with a commonly seen disorder
Because GAD and OCD are different disorders. GAD is more common than OCD, with estimates that 1 in 3 people have it. OCD is thought to be present in 1 in 40 adults, and the subset of OCD that George (and I) have, called Pure O, is even rarer at 1 in 100 by some estimates. The main difference between the disorders is that those with OCD feel they have to perform physical or mental behaviors to rid themselves of the anxiety their intrusive thoughts cause, while those with GAD don't do this. These behaviors are also called compulsions, which is the C in OCD.
Listen to Dr Greenbergs rumination podcasts or visit his website , psychologist who had pure o , his rumination erp has helped a lot. Was a game changer for me hope it helps someone out there.
Ezra Grace Love xxx ✍🏻👋
Pure O* - the "C" in OCD stands for compulsions, and pure O doesn't have (visible) compulsions
That's me
George you are a amazing person, you have gift from God. God love’s you, only God can set you free from OCD. Put your trust in Him, and He will set you free. Wishing you the best. ❤️❤️🇺🇸🇺🇸
Luke Combs has the exact same thing and talked about it on the Joe Rogan podcast.
I have pure ocd. It’s awful 😞
Gets an award for most reasonable 😂
I think IFS provides a cure
Hey George mum is a huge fan and she wants to see you so bad hopefully soon love ya 😍🥰
Sorry he has this got nervous breakdown over it
Looks like eveyone has some sort of OCD now that is a more known condition than many years ago, since people in every country around the world has it. It must be some sort of general human flaw in the brain, there should be more deep research on this mental condition.
😂
He sounds like an american black man
He does fr
Who?
Hmmm so TM grounds you
I’m very pure o about George
If you have OCD (compulsions and/or intrusive thoughts), do the following practice and your compulsions and intrusive thoughts WILL 100% get better and most likely even completely vanish if you apply this advice for long enough, you have to do this if you want to get better, there is no way around it:
Meditate daily, ideally 30-60+ minutes, but you can start with 5+ minutes and work your way up. I recommend Vipassana meditation, which simply means putting your attention on the bodily sensations of breathing.
Meditation is essentially about one thing: Practicing Awareness. Sitting meditation is an intentional, focused practice of Awareness, but it's just the beginning. You also have to practice Awareness when you are not sitting down to meditate. You basically have to meditate/practice Awareness 24/7, no matter what you are doing, no matter how many thoughts come up and no matter how much you suffer mentally and physically.
Practicing Awareness means simply observing your thoughts and compulsions (and also emotions, sensory perceptions, bodily sensations, pain etc., basically everything you experience) in a distanced and detached way. You have to realize that you ARE the observer/the Awareness that is free from all experience. YOU ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS AND COMPULSIONS. You are free from your thoughts, your thoughts just fool you into believing that they are real. Thoughts are just randomly generated bullshit, don't ever worry about them and don't ever think they are more than that. Never believe ANY thoughts. Do not identify with your thoughts and simply observe them from a distance. Your OCD will try to come up with all kinds of sneaky shit to draw you back into it, but NEVER give in to it, no matter what it says. Examples of sly tricks of OCD would be thoughts like "Meditation/Awareness doesn't work", "Your OCD will never go away" etc., but all these tricks only work because you let yourself get fooled by them, because you believe in them. You willingly give your power to these meaningless thoughts so that they can destroy you with it. See the absurdity in that. Also, never try to argue with thoughts, correct them, fight them, get rid of them etc., all of that is more tricks of OCD. You cannot solve OCD inside of the mind, only by stepping outside of the mind and observing it (Awareness). Intrusive thoughts and compulsions are randomly generated and you have absolutely no control over them whatsoever, but you have the power of being able to simply observe them, which will make you realize that you are not these thoughts, which will make them go away if you do it long enough. They only keep coming if they keep getting negative reactions from you. Fully accept and welcome all thoughts, no matter how strange or disturbing they may be. Never resist thoughts. Thoughts have no power over you as long as you don't give it to them. Never feel ashamed, disgusted or shocked by your thoughts, this fuels intrusive thoughts and compulsions immensely. Compulsions and intrusive thoughts thrive on your negative reactions to them. Simply observe them without being irritated by them.
OCD is threatened by Meditation/Awareness, that's why it will try to keep you from practicing them. When you practice Meditation/Awareness, your OCD might try to draw you back into its grasp through anxiety and anxious reactions in the body: tension, racing heart, sweating, stomach/heart pain etc., don't identify with these uncomfortable bodily sensations either and also observe all of this in a detached way. It's all just the OCD trying to trick you and ruin your life. The fact that your OCD will try to keep you from meditating/practicing Awareness should be a clear signal to you that you are on the right path to overcoming it.
Meditating and constantly practicing Awareness might be very hard at first, but don't be discouraged, it will become easier and easier with time, and your OCD and all its symptoms will gradually become better. Even if thoughts still come up, they will not bother you anymore, you will just see them for the random bullshit that they are. The end goal would be to remain in Awareness 24/7, which would make you completely invulnerable to all compulsions and intrusive thoughts.
Also, as corny as it may sound, what's even more important than Meditation and constantly practicing Awareness is fully and unconditionally loving yourself and everybody else and everything else in the world, even the most evil shit you can imagine, even your intrusive thoughts and compulsions. Your world and life have to become completely filled with Love. Negativity and suffering can only thrive where there is a lack of Love. Love repels negativity and suffering like oil repels water.
You WILL get through this if you follow my advice consequently for a long enough time, please trust me for your own sake.
Wishing you all the best and much love my friend. 😊❤
I- what?
Everyone has thoughts that they aren't proud of or if voiced, would make them into a pariah. Let's stop sensationalising something which is just being human. It is nothing more than the manifestation of man's sinful nature. It is incurable outside of God's help.
If you have OCD (compulsions and/or intrusive thoughts), do the following practice and your compulsions and intrusive thoughts WILL 100% get better and most likely even completely vanish if you apply this advice for long enough, you have to do this if you want to get better, there is no way around it:
Meditate daily, ideally 30-60+ minutes, but you can start with 5+ minutes and work your way up. I recommend Vipassana meditation, which simply means putting your attention on the bodily sensations of breathing.
Meditation is essentially about one thing: Practicing Awareness. Sitting meditation is an intentional, focused practice of Awareness, but it's just the beginning. You also have to practice Awareness when you are not sitting down to meditate. You basically have to meditate/practice Awareness 24/7, no matter what you are doing, no matter how many thoughts come up and no matter how much you suffer mentally and physically.
Practicing Awareness means simply observing your thoughts and compulsions (and also emotions, sensory perceptions, bodily sensations, pain etc., basically everything you experience) in a distanced and detached way. You have to realize that you ARE the observer/the Awareness that is free from all experience. YOU ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS AND COMPULSIONS. You are free from your thoughts, your thoughts just fool you into believing that they are real. Thoughts are just randomly generated bullshit, don't ever worry about them and don't ever think they are more than that. Never believe ANY thoughts. Do not identify with your thoughts and simply observe them from a distance. Your OCD will try to come up with all kinds of sneaky shit to draw you back into it, but NEVER give in to it, no matter what it says. Examples of sly tricks of OCD would be thoughts like "Meditation/Awareness doesn't work", "Your OCD will never go away" etc., but all these tricks only work because you let yourself get fooled by them, because you believe in them. You willingly give your power to these meaningless thoughts so that they can destroy you with it. See the absurdity in that. Also, never try to argue with thoughts, correct them, fight them, get rid of them etc., all of that is more tricks of OCD. You cannot solve OCD inside of the mind, only by stepping outside of the mind and observing it (Awareness). Intrusive thoughts and compulsions are randomly generated and you have absolutely no control over them whatsoever, but you have the power of being able to simply observe them, which will make you realize that you are not these thoughts, which will make them go away if you do it long enough. They only keep coming if they keep getting negative reactions from you. Fully accept and welcome all thoughts, no matter how strange or disturbing they may be. Never resist thoughts. Thoughts have no power over you as long as you don't give it to them. Never feel ashamed, disgusted or shocked by your thoughts, this fuels intrusive thoughts and compulsions immensely. Compulsions and intrusive thoughts thrive on your negative reactions to them. Simply observe them without being irritated by them.
OCD is threatened by Meditation/Awareness, that's why it will try to keep you from practicing them. When you practice Meditation/Awareness, your OCD might try to draw you back into its grasp through anxiety and anxious reactions in the body: tension, racing heart, sweating, stomach/heart pain etc., don't identify with these uncomfortable bodily sensations either and also observe all of this in a detached way. It's all just the OCD trying to trick you and ruin your life. The fact that your OCD will try to keep you from meditating/practicing Awareness should be a clear signal to you that you are on the right path to overcoming it.
Meditating and constantly practicing Awareness might be very hard at first, but don't be discouraged, it will become easier and easier with time, and your OCD and all its symptoms will gradually become better. Even if thoughts still come up, they will not bother you anymore, you will just see them for the random bullshit that they are. The end goal would be to remain in Awareness 24/7, which would make you completely invulnerable to all compulsions and intrusive thoughts.
Also, as corny as it may sound, what's even more important than Meditation and constantly practicing Awareness is fully and unconditionally loving yourself and everybody else and everything else in the world, even the most evil shit you can imagine, even your intrusive thoughts and compulsions. Your world and life have to become completely filled with Love. Negativity and suffering can only thrive where there is a lack of Love. Love repels negativity and suffering like oil repels water.
You WILL get through this if you follow my advice consequently for a long enough time, please trust me for your own sake.
Wishing you all the best and much love my friend. 😊❤
Um, no. OCD intrusive thoughts are by definition ego-dystonic, meaning that they do not align with the sufferer's true self or identity. Scientists believe that they are actually your brain reminding you of what NOT to do, not giving you advice on what to do. And spreading awareness about this condition is not "sensationalizing" it, it is providing literally life-saving education about this terminally terrifying and AWFUL thing to go through on a daily basis. I know that you're probably not aware, but those with Religious OCD and / or religious trauma could go into a spiral seeing this comment. OCD already convinces us through cognitive distortions that our thoughts come from our true self, and we really don't need people who have no experience, training, or education on the disease to spread false information about it. Lastly, I don't think G-d would want you to use His name to shame people. Have a good day.
This illness is like a nightmare! The bad thing is that nightmares last for a night while this illness for years on end! Its really sad that some people get raped by their own brain like that! Imagine being yourself for years and then all of a sudden something attackes you and you no longer feel or think like yourself! You can realize this but you cant do anything to stop the torment!
Thank you George