Alan Watts - Overcome Social Anxiety

How does your head look to your eyes? Well, I'll tell you... ...it looks like what you see out in front of you. Because all that you see out in front of you is how you feel inside your head. So, it's the same with this. And so, for this reason the great Sikh patriarch: ...said that it was a great mistake for those who were practising Buddhist meditation to try to make their minds empty. And a lot of people tried to do that. They sat down... ...and tried... ...to have no thoughts whatever in their minds. Not only no thoughts, but no sense experiences, so they'd close their eyes, they'd plug up their ears, and generally go in for sensory deprivation. Well, sensory deprivation, if you know how to handle it, can be quite interesting. It'll have the same sort of results as taking LSD or something like that. And there are special labs made nowadays where you can be sensorally deprived to an amazing degree. But if you're a... sort of a good yogi... ...this doesn't bother you at all. Sends some people crazy. But if you dig this world, you can have a marvelous time in a sensory deprivation scene. Also, especially, if they get you into a condition of weightlessness. Skin-divers going down below a certain number of feet... ...I don't know exactly how far it is... ...but get a sense of weightlessness. and at the same time this deprives them at every sense of resposibility they become alarmingly happy

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Keywords: Anxiety (Symptom), Alan Watts (Author), Social Anxiety, Stress, Health (Industry), overcome social anxiety, social, anxiery, anxiety, alan watts, alan, watts, overcome

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Length: 8min 28sec (508 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 26 2014

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[u/BevTheManFromDownUnd]

I have had SAD pretty much for as long as I can remember, and not just a mild case, but I'm talking acute.

I posted this vid to see what you guys think, if you can find any value in it, but for me, I must be honest it just didn't help me at all.

I'm really asking what am I missing?