I need to motivate myself. I feel like I am taking a step back but oh well. Start off right and do it right! This is what my therasipt told me. That is what I am going to do. Just the time he wants me to put into this program I just can't seem to find. He says 10 times a day to do the relaxation. Hello that is two and a half hours a day. Then listen to the weekly cd and do the workbook for a half hour. That is 4 hours a day! He says I can do it. I am going to try!

I need some chearing on LOL

You can definitely do it. I have gone back to all of my cd's many times depending on what seems to be bothering me that particular day. You have to believe that you are not alone and we are all here to support you and help you through difficult times. Sometimes just hearing lucindas voice calms me and puts me in a much better place. You know what you need, but take one day at a time and definitely do your breathing when a difficult time comes on and definitely use the relaxation cd. Take some time for you. I know that is one of the big changes I made and it has helped me so much. I also have put exercise into my life and it it something I am finally doing for myself. I will be a cheerleader for you and I know there are many others out there also cheering you on. Take care and love who you are.

You have to be realistic about finding the time to do the program. If you start worrying that can't devote the time your therapist wants you to that in itself will cause you MORE anxiety. I try to practice the breathing exercise 10 times a day, 60 seconds each time. That's 10 minutes. I listen to the relaxation tape 3 times. If the weather cooperates I like to take a walk on my lunch hour so I listen to it then. I may not be able to fully participate in some of the muscle relaxation but the overall tone of the exercise helps me. Then I listen to it again on my drive home from work and finally I do the whole exercise just before I go to bed to help me sleep. I listen to the weekly CD three times per week and I watch the video once. I journal each day and write down any anxious episodes that I had, how it made me feel and how I got through it.

If you can find the time that your therapist recommends that's great! But if not, maybe try to modify the routine a little bit so that it works well for you. The most important thing is that you do a little bit each day.

Good luck!

Oh yes lik sfsm said,

also with the work book, I counted the pages in the assignment for the week, devided that by 7, and made sure I did that many pages a day. It took the pressuer off, if I had time I worked ahead a few pages, some day's I didn't have as much time as other days. doing the work book is big, but the journalling is huge.

You can do it, set your mind to DO IT. I assure you it will pay off.

cfe

I am writing that quote down regarding God's gift, that is a nice saying
I hope that positive thinking will become more part of my life than this negative thinking I always have.

I am also listening to the relaxation tape it is helpfull .

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QUOTE]Originally posted by Spectro49:
cfe

I am writing that quote down regarding God's gift, that is a nice saying
I hope that positive thinking will become more part of my life than this negative thinking I always have.[/QUOTE]

It is a matter of renewing your mind, Lucinda's course is a wonderful help with that, I started journaling against my will, as I hate writing, but it helped so much to journal my negative thinking, and turn it in to positive thinking was a giant step in the right direction. I had a holistic MD. tell me "when fighting the darkness use the LIGHT" Dr, Royal Las Vegas Nevada. he is on the radio out there. highly renound, "Jesus is the Light" that can light up your world, walk in the Light, and lighten up! 8^) it will work miracles for you, I have been a graduate from this course for 2 years, and it just keeps getting easier, but it takes practice. don't should you yourself, and don't should on others, my biggest problem, was not having any compassion for myself, and my neighbors were short changed, because you can't love others if you can't love yourself.
God Bless ya

Thanks

The relaxation tape is helpful except for the breathing part that seems to frustrate me for I can't get the technique down so I am trying not to dwell on it that much. The tape is helpful though when I have finished listening to it on most days!

I'm having a hard time with anxiety again. I started week two today, but have had more anxiety since starting the program than I have for the past year. I know they say it is normal to feel anxious about it, but this is really hard. To go from feeling okay to having panic attacks again makes me worry. Did anyone else feel this way?

My daughter brought it back to me, I had ordered it for her, and she had the same problem, then I decided to do it so I could help her, and found I needed it too. and I had that same feeling too. You have to dig out that rotten root that has you stuck, feeling bad, and get rid of it you can do it! Lucinda gives you the tooles to do it for good.

Do it the way it is written "one lesson in a week then go on to the next one" I got stuck and suffered more than necessary, the next lesson will have the tools, you need, it all works together, I ended up getting a personal coach to do the lesson, and the one thing she told me that helped me to keep moving on, was "you will own this program all your life, if you think you need to go back and redo some part of it, you can do that after you go completely through it the first time. I have talked to people who are on their 3rd time through it. I did it one time, and then the growing pains, witch go on all your life I think. I am more free now, than I have ever been in my life.
I am happier, but there are always things, situations, that come up in life, that need to be analyzed, and directed, and now I can do it, I have the tools, the past 3 weeks have been difficult, but I now have confidence, and the tools to work through it, and come out not only on the other side but on top of the game for the first time in my life. I am strong, and I can stand on my own.

Don't give it up, my daughter, finally came back to it after she could see what a difference it was making in my life, and she is now free to be her too! It is worth it all, be compassionate to yourself, this is a progress, worth doing. You must move forward. It is like natural healing, you may have to revisit the illness for a short while to work it out of your system. but then you will be cured not limping through life anymore.

Thanks so much

cfe
I am on session two and it is helping a little I have to keep the negative thoughts out which is hard, thanks for you uplifting email.

live again,
know that some think that its hard for change..we are ued to doing things our way. and when someone else tells us to do it their way we do not like it..
when i went through the program in 2004..i got to the point that i could quote it...i also found out how relaxing it could be. i got to the point that as i was down by the water.i could actually feel the water run hrough my fingers. i knew at thattime that i was getng better. it was not long after that that i moved on with my life..moved to another state and started life over again. met and got married again and love it. i wish you the best and hang in there.nothing is easy if it is to help us get better..take care and GOD BLESS..
by the way in 2006 i woke up one day and all the panic, anxiety, agrophobia was gone..i nw can go and do what ever i want to do and if i choose not to then i don't. i put GOD first in my life and my wife and i go to CHURCH,read our BIBLES and PRAY each night before bed and i pray daily..i have never met any one else like her before..it was GIFT FROM GOD..
don

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can you explain you did the program in 2004 then in 2006 you just woke up one day and did't have agrophobia.I have such agrophobia in many areas and couldn't even go with my husband to the hospital to have heart sugrey and my daughter got mad at me life has really been hard.sorry some times I just get down I'm trying but d how did that work I know we have to do it out self and learn these tools ourself but I am a christian and I am trying to trust God that is what we are suppose to do could use all the advice I can get got to get well 25 years is too long I have lost half or more of my life and I can't get it back help!!!!!!!!