In this video Joy D. Fanning, a self‑described "astronaut of life," dedicates the month to exploring anxiety and how meditation can serve as both a coping mechanism and a gateway to deeper spiritual experiences. She begins by explaining why anxiety is a frequent topic in her awareness and frames meditation as her primary tool for managing it. Citing the Mayo Clinic, she outlines a wide range of emotional and physical benefits—calm, balance, reduced negative emotions, increased self‑awareness, creativity, patience, and relief for conditions such as asthma, cancer, depression, and more. Fanning emphasizes that meditation’s impact extends beyond the session, helping users carry calm throughout the day. She acknowledges the initial awkwardness many feel when starting meditation and recommends guided meditations as "training wheels," highlighting the value of pauses, music, or silence to keep the mind on track. Practical tips include establishing a daily routine (morning, afternoon, or night), experimenting with different formats (guided, singing bowls, mantra, walking), and setting clear intentions. She promotes her own free weekly live guided meditations hosted on Discord/Zoom and points viewers to a curated playlist, including a special "Astral Adventures" series focused on anxiety. Finally, she announces a 6‑week course beginning February 22 that will teach participants how to use meditation for astral travel, meeting guides, and other spiritual practices, inviting viewers to sign up via her website.
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Joy D. Fanning, an astronaut of life, and I help people go inward to explore, to discover the astral realms for themselves. So this month I'm talking about anxiety because it's been brought up in my awareness quite often. So I wanted to spend a whole month just dissecting anxiety and coming at it at a few different angles. In this video, I want to talk about specifically using meditation for anxiety because meditation's my jam, right? I, I have two different types of meditations I put out every week. I leave a free guided meditation group every Saturday. So Meditation is very much the practice I use the most to help with my anxiety. I'm also, as I talk to more people about meditation, especially with my meditation stories, I'm finding that for a lot of us, meditation came into our lives via as a coping mechanism for anxiety. So I think a lot of people start there, but they don't— as it, as it develops, it becomes something more. So I just want to go over real quick the benefits of meditation. So this is according to the Mayo Clinic. Meditation can give you a sense of calm, peace, and balance that can benefit both your emotional well-being, well-being, and your overall health. And these benefits don't end when you meditate— when your meditation session ends. Meditation can help you carry— meditation can help carry you more calmly through your day and may help you manage symptoms of certain medical conditions, aka anxiety, right? So when you meditate, you clear away the information overload that builds up and makes you stressed. So here are some things: you get new perspective, you You have a new coping mechanism, increased self-awareness, focusing, reduce negative emotions, aka anxiety, increases imagination and creativity, increases patience. I mean, a lot of us get to it by anxiety, but look at all these other things it can be used for. Asthma, cancer, pain, depression, heart disease, high blood pressure, irritable bowel syndrome, sleep problems, tension headaches. I feel like the list goes on and on and on, right? Once you learn how peaceful your mind and body can be with— via meditation and just using this as a coping mechanism, you don't want to go back to your anxious self, and you want to do it every day. I think for a lot of people, myself included, when you first get started with meditation, it's seems a little weird. It's really kind of hard. You're not really sure if you're doing it right. And everybody says in the guided meditation, like, if your mind wanders, simply bring it back to not have any negative feelings towards yourself. It's all perfect. Maybe not quite like that, but you get what I'm saying, right? Like That's— but that's how it is. I mean, it's totally okay if you get a little sidetracked. That's why I think guided meditations are so good to start out with if you choose to explore meditation as a coping mechanism for your anxiety, because when it's guided, there might be pauses— there will be pauses where it's just music or silence But the speaker will eventually keep speaking, and that will keep your mind back on track. Like, oh yeah, I'm supposed to be thinking about this. Okay. And then you do it. It's a great, like, training wheels to get you going until you're ready to just move on to music or silence or whatever it is. Like I said, there's so many options. And when you meditate, it raises your vibration so you can transmute your anxiety into love or a calmness or peacefulness. And if you do this, oh, then you get out of that yucky, anxious, overwhelmed energy and into this nice, peaceful, calm energy. You get to take that with you into the rest of your day. My favorite time to meditate is the morning because I'm usually hungry, I get a little grouchy. If I end up waking up early, I do a morning meditation and my day goes so much better. Sometimes I do it in the afternoon, sometimes night, sometimes all three. You gotta do what's best for you, right? And what works with your schedule. So here's how to get started. Like I said, use guided meditations. Look at below, I have a whole playlist of them. I have a special one called Astral Adventures you can check out too, but I'm specifically making ones on anxiety in the month of January. So those are the ones I'm gonna tag below that you might wanna check out to help with anxiety. You can also look on YouTube, on any of the meditation apps, and they're gonna have specialized meditations just for anxiety. So you can find one that works for you. Do it every day, use it as often as you want, try a new one each time, whatever works, right? If you've tried meditation but it didn't work for you, Here's the thing I want to tell you, like, just keep at it. Change something for yourself. Maybe guided doesn't work. Maybe you should use singing bowls. Maybe you should do mantra meditations or affirmations where you're speaking. Try a walking meditation where you just go for a walk and it's like guiding your thoughts as you walk. These are all beautiful ways. There's so, so many ways. Find the one that works for you and utilize it because it will help you. Whatever you want, set that intention and it will come forward. Okay, so now real quick, I just want to plug all the cool things I have going on. If you're interested in guided meditations, like I said before, there's links below to ones I've already made.
If you want to meditate with me, I have a weekly free guided meditation that I do live. You can do that with me. Join the Discord for that. Sometimes we do it with Zoom, sometimes we do it on Discord, but we have a great community there. I would love to have you join us.
The thing I want to tell you guys about is if you want to use meditation as more than a coping skill for anxiety or whatever issue you have, and you want to use it to astral travel or to meet your guides or do all these cool things I'm starting a course on February 22nd where I'm going to teach you this. It's going to be 6 weeks long. If this is something you're interested in, head down to my website, take a look, sign up. I would love to have you there. I am so excited for this, you have no idea. All right guys, this is it for today. I wish you all well. Thank you so much for holding space for me.
