RE: urge to pray - advice/help
February 2, 2012 at 1:24 am
(This post was last modified: February 2, 2012 at 1:25 am by reverendjeremiah.)
(February 2, 2012 at 12:55 am)passionatefool Wrote: Being an atheist now, I seriously doubt that prayers work, it never did before. But I felt like its something imprinted in my mind from back then when I was extremely religious, praying was a daily everyday thing. Now everytimes I get anxious,nervous, scared, worried, or something horrible happened -which it does happen quite often with all of it together- I find myself having urges to pray because it brought comfort before, it was a temporary escape from reality. I refuse to do it now because it felt wrong, wont bring me comfort. I dont believe in it anymore, but now I find it hard dealing with my stress, over-worrying, paranoid and anxiety problem, it makes me feel like throwing up sometimes. Actually I dont know how to make myself feel like everything is going to be okay.
Talk to yourself...fuck what anyone else thinks. Say it out loud.
"Calm down ...Ive got to calm down"
count to ten always helps me too
Pick up your guitar and thrash some hard core raw shit
Take a rock and smash someones head in....er...maybe you shouldnt do that.
Try to think of something funny.
Try to think of someone worse off than you...hey, it might be bad, but at least you arent living in Saudi Arabi where they cut peoples heads off in the local shopping mall parking lot. Or at least you arent in ethiopia starving, or suffering from some fucked up disease.
There are so many ways.... I would suggest building up your sense of humor.
When Im at work and people get mad or frustrated on the job I tell them to go to the shit house and calm down before they say something they will later regret.
