Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) & Self-Talk Therapy with Meditation

Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) Meditation Technique

Go to a quiet place, lie back and get into a relaxed position. Close your eyes and focus. Allow your thoughts in, but let go of them quickly and visualize yourself in a quiet, serene environment. Picture yourself in a garden. As you walk through this beautiful garden notice the fresh plants, the environment and listen to the birds’ friendly chirps. When thoughts appear again, let them go. Do not try to force them. As you listen to the birds chirp, notice your body sensations. If you feel tense, accept your body's discomfort. Relax, breathe in, exhale, breathe in, exhale, breathe in and exhale. Continue the breathing exercises until you feel relaxed.

Notice your body’s sensations. Feel your toes, feet and other parts of your body. Accept that it is natural. Continue meditating until you start to feel relaxed.

Self-talk – This technique will include some strategies that will help you combat your feeling of abandonment and rejection.

Using self-talk you will start a conversation with yourself. You can converse mentally or verbally. For example, “I feel bad today because…”

Now we are going to use self-talk to open the door to confront the loss of your loved one.

DO NOT dispute or debate your present reality – Identify with your feelings by using self-talk to state “I must be missing … now.” Or you may state that “I must be feeling very lonely now.”

If you feel that you cannot speak, find something that reminds you of something that you lost or memories of your past. Find things that remind you of how it was then and how it is now. You can use photos, scrapbooks or other items. Use common words such as home, family, weekends, bedtime, etc to help you remember.

To help you reduce some of the stress that may have built up from your practice we will now consider some stress reducing risks with exercise therapy. Exercise will help you relieve stress physically and mentally and this will have a positive affect on Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD).

Reducing Risks with Exercise Therapy

Exercise is a great way to reduce risks of heart disease, strokes, diabetes and high cholesterol and so on. Exercise helps since it strengthens the bones, muscles and joints. Joints when flexibility will promote blood flow and so on. The tissues and cells also work properly when you exercise.

Exercise includes cardio workouts, strength training, resistance training and isometric and so on. One of the latest exercise programs includes Pilates. The machines and equipment will help you sculpt the body without harming the joints. In fact, when you workout you should avoid overloading the joints. The joints are powerful instruments we have and when these joints are overworked, it could cause serious problems to occur.

Promoting good health involves exercise too. Exercise prevents the muscles and joints from feeling stiff. When the muscles and joints are stiff, it opens the doors to inflammation, swelling, pain and other arthritic symptoms. When the joints and muscles are not working properly, it affects the central nervous system. The central nervous system rests, sending living cells information that channels messages through and from neurotransmitters on to the brain and spinal column. If this area is interrupted, you are opening the door to some serious problems in the future.

In fact, failure to exercise affects the two hemispheres of the brain that divide and channel to the spinal cord. What happens is the four lobes are affected. These lobes include the frontal, parietal, temporal and the occipital lobe. When failure to exercise starts affecting the muscles and joints, the tissues, cells and central nervous system are affected, which also targets the brain. Now we see issues occurring, since the lobes contain our personality, intellect, motor skills, speech, sensations, sensory integrated communications, spatial, vision, taste, smell and our capacity to hear.

Summary

You have learned how self-talk, meditation and exercise can all benefit you and help you relieve some of your stress. Now we will help you build some powerful qualities such as self-discipline and self-control.