Is resting in anxiety possible? That seems to be what I'm doing in practice, lately. Anxiety, comes up, and I do what my teacher calls the "primary practice:" attending to as much of present experience as possible, "opening my heart" to this experience, asking "What is experiencing this?" and resting in the release which results from the confusion this question creates. The anxiety is still there (dread, tension throughout the body), but there is rest at the same time. At least, so it seems. It also seems like a contradiction in terms.
Any critical feedback on the practice I've described here would be welcome. I am sort of working on my own, and would like to avoid the missteps which that can lead to...)
(I asked this question on
another forum recently, too. I'm asking here because I just heard of DhO, it sounds useful, and things have been a bit quiet over there, lately.)