Thank you very much for this elaborate response. I am planning on doing daily morning meditation.
How is this helping you in your daily life? Do you still every really worry?
I have been diagnosed with mild-OCD so I have a tendency for being very sensitive to impulses and over-thinking in repeating patterns. I am sure I can cure myself of this though.
Also, addressing the increased heartbeat and shortage of breath, you think these are normal occurring symptoms? Nothing to worry about?
However I am very aware that I have unwanted and intrusive thoughts going on, I acknowledge them but I have a hard time of letting go. Certainly when there is no closure. That is my main problem. I try to make sense out of something that doesn't make sense to me. And it can be very very exhausting.
There was this one specific thought - criticism and I carried it with me for years, until one day I decided I found a good enough counter argument which enabled me to refute any energy I gave to these thoughts and it went away like *bam*.
But this makes me dependent on very exhausting cognitive power in order to try to convince myself of the unimportance of certain thoughts.
They pop up like parasites.