My OCD Self-Cure: Update

OCD-Free
2 min readAug 20, 2020

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When I began my spiritual and energy practices, I did not set out to cure my OCD. I was using qigong, yoga, meditation and books on spirituality to help me cope with a personal crisis. It wasn’t my plan to use them to address my OCD, which I thought was too powerful for me to resist in the moment, let alone free myself from in the long-term.

Because I am just one case, not a study, and because my cure came about incidentally instead of as nigh result of a thought-out treatment, it’s hard to know if what I did can be replicated — if it will work for you.

What I am confident in is that all of the practices that eventually resulted in my freedom from OCD are healthy. Regardless of how they affect your obsessive-compulsive behavior, they should enhance your life. Hopefully, they will lead to increased feelings of peace and a lessoning of anxiety.

In other words, I don’t know if it will have the same affect on your OCD, but it can’t hurt to try.

My journey to freedom from OCD had four over-lapping phases:

1. Yoga, Qigong & aerobic exercise

  • I would suggest finding teachers who emphasize the spiritual and energy aspects of yoga and qigong.

2. Reading books on spirituality and manifestation, including:

  • Rhonda Byrne’s The Secret
  • Wayne Dyer’s There’s a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem
  • Roger Jahnke’s The Healer Within: Using Traditional Chinese Techniques to Release Your Body’s Own Medicine
  • Charles Haanel’s The Master Key System
  • Wayne Dyer’s Wishes Fulfilled: Mastering the art of Manifesting

3. Meditating. Techniques include:

  • Transcendental
  • Guided (such as those by Joe Dispenza)
  • Yoga Nidra (also guided, available on Youtube)
  • Buddhist Loving-Kindness (“Metta”)
  • Buddhist breath meditations
  • Zen Mu meditation
  • Jainist meditations (so hum)

4. Listening to music based on binaural beats and isochronal tones (available from Youtube, etc.)

It has been six years since my cure, which I wrote about here. I am still living free of OCD.

I am happy to share my experiences with anyone who writes to me: ocdfree @ Comcast . net (without spaces). I won’t charge you for anything; I just want to offer support. I know more than anyone what life is like with severe OCD.

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