In Mindfulness, you are in the present moment or you are being aware moment-to-moment.
I took a Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction course in the spring of 2014. The course used mindfulness meditation, body scan meditation and yoga to help us become more aware of our bodies, our where we were at the present moment, etc.
I'm sure there are lots of great books or internet sites that discuss Mindfulness. Jon Kabat-Zinn is the Guru of Mindfulness.
I had an aquarium for a few years....and it was great. I found it very relaxing and soothing to watch the fish swim about and hear the bubbling of the water. It was quite a bit of work though....
Something that motivates me actually has nothing to do with anxiety....but in a way it does.
Over the last 2 and a bit years, I've lost over 90 lbs. It has been very gradual and I did it all on my own...no fad diets or anything. Just eating better and exercise.
When someone comments on how good I look and how much weight I've lost (especially when it's someone I haven't seen in a while), it motivates me to keep doing what I'm doing....especially the exercising. And exercise is good for anxiety...so............
I don't really see myself as having lost that much weight. Yes...I've pretty much had to buy a whole new wardrobe...but I still have all kinds of flabby skin and body image issues I need to work on.
Anyway....yeah. That's it.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone (in Canada) and Go Jays Go!!
It would take me way more than 30% of the water to vacuum the gravel in my 10 gal tank. Don't know if it was b/c I had a couple of goldfish (which are pigs) or what. Anyway....it would take me a while. I had a contraption that hooked up to the faucet in my kitchen sink that would vacuum the water right into the sink so I didn't have to lift anything. I could then reverse it and pump clean water back into the tank. I've thought of getting it going again....or trying something different (like a turtle...but I've been told they're very smelly). Who knows.
Some people don't know they've gone into afib. Other people feel it as soon as it starts. They can feel their heart racing, feel palpitations, feel dizzy, short of breath, tired, or just generally unwell.
The problems occur when a person doesn't know they're in afib because it can increase your risk of having a stroke if you are not on the correct medications. When the blood doesn't pump smoothly through the heart, clots can form. If those clots leave the heart and travel to the brain, a stroke occurs. Blood thinners like Coumadin, Eliques, Pradaxa, and even Aspirin help decrease this risk.
I hope things improve for you soon. It is very frustrating and disheartening when setbacks occur. It feels like all the work we've put in was for nothing.
Aspirin (ASA) does work as a blood thinner (anti-coagulant) as well as an anti-inflammatory. The choice of which anti-coagulant to use when someone has afib depends on certain pre-existing factors or conditions that the patient has. We use something called the CHADS2 Score. The higher the patient's CHADS2 score, the higher the patient's risk for developing a blood clot and having a stroke. Those with low CHADS2 scores (0 or 1) can be managed with ASA. People with a CHADS2 of 2 or more need to take a stronger anti-coagulant (e.g. Coumadin, Eliquis, Pradax, Xarelto).
Sometimes home blood pressure monitors will give you an idea that something might be wrong. When the heart beat is VERY irregular (as is the case with afib) and fast, home BP monitors are not really able to get an accurate reading...or they will get readings that vary greatly over a few minutes. They will likely also show the heart rate being very fast.
I have seen people that have absolutely no idea that they have afib...and some of them have heart rates over 150 bpm when just sitting there. Other people are very aware of going into afib. These are the people that present to the ER where medications and/or cardioversion are used to get them back into "normal" rhythm.
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