Anxiety Recovery
Before you embark on your journey to complete recovery, let me firstly explain HOW you need to think in order to accept the information that will drive your anxiety away, permanently.
Let me tell you a story, you may have heard it before but it is important that you understand its meaning. Where this story came from is of no importance but just for information purposes I can tell you that it is used by Zen practitioners to explain the learning process to potential underlings:
A scholar and a Zen master meet over a cup of tea. The Zen master asks the scholar what he knows about Zen. The scholar, needing no further invitation, begins to reel off pages of literary allusions, footnotes, and parts of old lectures.
As the scholar talks, the Zen master pours the tea. The Zen master doesn’t stop when the cup is full, but continues pouring allowing the tea to spill over the cup.
“Why, do you continue to pour when my cup is full to overflowing?” asks the scholar with indignation. The Zen master replies, “How, can I teach you anything about Zen until you first empty your cup!”
So before I teach you anything new about how to recover from anxiety you have to clean all of the knowledge that you have previously learned about your condition, all of the pre-conceived ideas, experiences, fears and hopes, you will always refer back to them in order to compare other ideas with mine.
My ideas aren’t spiritual, weird, scary or obscure, they are sound scientific methods based on real experiences and results. There are no side effects (except wellness), there are no interactions, no dangers.
You know deep down inside that your condition has developed as a response to something that has happened to you… whether that is: stress, bereavement, family problems, bullying or whatever… this is irrelevant and from this point on I want you to stop allocating blame; I want you stop thinking and talking about whatever it is that you think may have caused your condition.
Whatever happened will always be imprisoned deeply in your mind, it can never be erased, however you can stop your mind from pulling that memory from the archives and allowing it to directly influence your present and your future. When the memory raises its head in the future, you will be able to ignore it, disempower it and send it back to where it came from. It is this memory and the habits that you have developed in order to cope with this memory that are perpetuating your condition.
Here is another lovely story that demonstrates what I mean:
Two monks are walking along a road together. One walks with great seriousness of purpose. The other simply walks one step at a time. They come to a river. A young woman approaches them. She bows, they bow. Then she makes her request: “O Noble Sirs, ” she says, “I cannot cross the stream by myself, would one of you carry me over?” The first monk crosses his arms and shakes his head NO! He knows the rules: monks must not touch women. The second monk bows so that the young woman can ride upon his shoulders. The three of them cross to the opposite shore and bow to each other again.
The two monks continue walking. The first monk is angry; he pounds his sandals into the earth. The second monk walks as before. Finally the first monk cannot contain himself any longer. “HOW COULD YOU!!!!????” he bellows, “You know the rules about monks and women!” The second monk pauses and then bows to his companion. “My friend,” he says, “I left the woman back there on the shore. Why do you still carry her on your back?”
The monk who carried the woman across the stream had the knowledge, the memory of what he SHOULD be doing and yet he ignored it; he has buried his burden. The other monk’s memory told him he shouldn’t carry the woman… so he didn’t and so continued to carry his burden.
You too can unburden yourself of unwanted thoughts.
Forget medication, psychology sessions and other CONTROL methods that are used day after day, the world over with little or no success… my One-Touch-Technique is the answer but you have to find it in you to suppress whatever it is that ‘caused’ your condition.
Bury it deeply, pour rocks on it and don’t talk about it ever again. With practice you will find that your conscious effort to do this will become ‘second nature’, instinctual.
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