I am a beginner with meditation and I struggle a lot in my daily life with anxiety.
Because of this,
It feels like my thoughts during meditation are very loud because of the immediate anxious feelings they evoke.
It is difficult to maintain focus.
I am wondering,
Will more experience with meditation help my ability to focus on my breath and let the anxious thoughts and feelings fade away?
I am a beginner with meditation and I struggle a lot in my daily life with anxiety.
Because of this,
It feels like my thoughts during meditation are very loud because of the immediate anxious feelings they evoke.
It is difficult to maintain focus.
I am wondering,
Will more experience with meditation help my ability to focus on my breath and let the anxious thoughts and feelings fade away?
If you are suffering real severe anxiety,
You have to get treated medically.
You need treatment because your nerves are either afraid or they are over-sensitive.
For my meditation speaking from the lexicon based on meditation,
Anxiety means that you are thinking too much about the future.
The way to reduce your anxiety is not think about the future.
However,
As much as you can try not having any thoughts,
Thoughts will come.
That's why no matter what kind of thoughts arises,
You can't imbue that with any meaning.
Don't chase after them.
Just focus on the breath.
The important thing is whether or not you can focus on the breath.
The important thing is whether you experience anxiety or not.
The anxiety will reduce the more you can stay away from your thoughts and focus on the breath.
But in your case,
You are experiencing a symptom,
A state in which you have these thoughts and you are chasing after them and that triggers an anxious feeling.
They are evoking them and you can't focus on the breath.
So in this case,
That's why I am recommending that you get medical treatment in order to treat the acute symptoms of anxiety.
So during meditation,
What you are aiming to do is to stay focused on the breath without chasing after all these little float stems of thoughts that will come unbidden.
And with practice,
It will be easier for you to maintain that focus on the breath and with that maintained focus,
It will lessen the anxiety.
But rather than using meditation as a way to treat your anxiety,
I think it will be easier for you to be treated by professional medicine.
And I recommend that you do this in parallel with meditation.
Get treated as you practice meditation.
