Meditation after effects

[Daisy1234]

My anxiety has been sky high. In fact I think it's the worst aspect of my PTSD.

So this morning I did a guided breathing relaxation for about 10 minutes. Afterwards I felt very calm and peaceful but very sleepy and now I am exhausted. I did notice for a good 15 minutes that my incessant "playing around with" my fingers stopped and is now only back slightly.

Is this sleepiness and fatigue a good sign? I want it to be but everything I'm reading on the internet suggests I must not be meditating right or not at all if I feel this way. But the stopping playing with my fingers must mean something positive happened right?

I just want meditation to help me. I'm willing to do it every day if it will help me.

 

[MisterCatLady]

I often feel exhausted after calming down from an anxiety attack. If you felt calmer then you did it right. Meditation is literally just quieting the mind - which as you know is harder than it sounds. It's a very useful tool.

 

[Bloomy]

Dont belive so much in what others say is right or wrong. I also experience meditation in a way they say is wrong.
Feels good to me so Ill keep doing what works for me.
And thats what I think you should do too. All though meditation every day might be slightly overdoing? Did you know that you can also meditate walking in nature or running slow in flow?
There are many paths to peace like this.

Wish you well and take good care.

 

[Daisy1234]

I don't know . . . overall a very weird experience. After I got up from "resting" I was dissociating but at the same time a vision of a caged screaming monkey swinging about and baring its teeth was prominent in my mind. I just felt rage so just wrote down "I feel rage." Then I dug deeper and experienced sadness and just cried. I don't know exactly what I was angry at though. Now it's back to the finger fidgeting.

 

[Daisy1234]

Dont belive so much in what others say is right or wrong. I also experience meditation in a way they say...

I do feel peaceful, most of the time, around horses.

I have been experiencing increasing physical pain and near constant nausea too. Does that happen to you too?

 

[Bloomy]

Yes it has happend to me to. Before. Doctor said I had fibromyalgia. No words can describe the severe pysical pain I ended up feeling. Doctor had no remedy for it.
The extreme sport pain Ive managed to heal on my own. If it comes back Ill know what to do know, but mostly I can say Ive worked my self out of physical pain.
The nausea do has been until recently. This I assume will keep coming back until Ive managed to fix urgent issues of practcal character.

 

[Symphony]

Think of it this way...
Maybe your exhaustion was perpetuating the anxiety or even the cause? The meditation just helped you turn down the noise of anxiety and listen to what your body and mind really needed: a nap.

 

[Daisy1234]

Think of it this way...
Maybe your exhaustion was perpetuating the anxiety or even the cause? The med...

That could be. I don't like to do it, but I had errands to run with a lot of anxiety so took a xanax (which I have been on for sleep for a long time, prescribed my pdoc). I use those only as a "must do" when the anxiety becoming so overwhelming that I feel I can't take it anymore.

I think I will try meditation again tomorrow. Still feeling exhausted now. More rest on the way. The xanax calmed me down a bit and my mind isn't racing now as it usually does. Still, I don't want to become reliant on the quick fix of benzos.