Although I am only on session 2, I feel like I am just listening to an info-mercial. I feel like it is repetitive sometimes...
I suppose my question is this:
Do the session cds change at all as you get further along?
By changing, I mean, Are they all just going to be story-telling more than telling me what to do?
I feel like I understand the disoders pretty well already, and I am just at the point of "So what do I DO NOW???"
(possibly just anxiety about getting to the next session, or fears of the program not working...)
A little info, please?
Thank You!

The program definitely works. In each tape Lucinda introduces the topic of a particular lesson and discusses for a bit. Than the group talks about their particular scenarios related to the topic.

I have found this very helpful because its nice to know that other people are thinking much of the same kinds of anxious/depressing or scary thoughts and they overcame their conditions.

Take your time, the program does work. Take care and God Bless

Thank you!
I do agree though, that it does definitely help you SO much to hear your symptoms coming from someone elses mouth!
I guess this should just be an opportunity to overcome the anxiety of getting to the end...
See! I'm learning already!
Thanks again! Just needed to hear another point of view!

I completely relate to how you are feeling right now! I'm only 3 weeks ahead of you but week 2 was probably the same exact thought for me. I just excused the feeling w/...I ALWAYS expect MORE! I rarely think that the things right in front of me are "good enough". And actually, according to Lucinda, this is a personality trait that most of "us" share. I would say that by next week this feeling should pass. I don't want to say w/ time but more-so because when you get into week3 you may just find yourself being "put to the test". Not hard work but it will be a bit more for you to "wrap your brain around"! My advice is to except your feelings of the program right now but do not by any means stop! Keep going and check in often! Good luck!

I just started the program the end of september I'm on cd 8. My problem is that she talks about feel the fear and do it anyway. My fear is dying. How can i feel the fear and do it anyway. I can't die!

Hi scaredtodeath,
I have a big fear of dying also. Every body symptom makes me think I am going to die. There have been many nights when my heart has pounded so hard and all the other symptoms have been so bad that I honestly believed I was dying. It sure feels that way. yet I am always still alive in the morning. Im not sure how to feel the fear and do it anyway also but I just want to stop being afraid all the time. I want so much to be free from all the physical symptoms. I have had days where I have thought to myself " If I died at least I woudnt have to keep suffering through this". I am afraid to die and afraid to live. I hope it gets better soon.

I know what you mean I want and need to be free of this panic for my health and also for my family so my children wont learn this stuff I hate it my life is stuck. I want to move on enjoy life be a part of life. I find myself thinking about how wonderful my life is two healthy happy active children a great suportive husband for 18 years, and then i find my self thinking about dying and leaving them behind and not being able to touch them smell them see them ect. and then i start to disconnect from them , and life so it wont hurt so bad when I die. So I wont be so afraid, and they wont hurt so much.

You know what we are not going to die of this as much as I know some days it really feels as though we will. I think about my husband and how wonderfully supportive he is being. I want so much to be healthy and well and happy for him and for my step children. They deserve that. I want it for myself also. I have to believe and have hope that you and I will have that. The people on the cd's have been where we are and they are now loving their lives. That gives me hope that you and I and all of us working this program are going to get there too. I think that you and I are probably on the same pagein the way we feel and think. Please feel free to private message me anytime you want to talk or just vent about your day. Maybe we can give each other the support to get through this to the light on the other side. I check in here everyday and I will always write you back.

I hear you about the infomercial format. But I think that these audio and video tapes help on a subconsious level too. I think it does help to listen to the audio over and over. And doing the work in the book. I am on level 3 now (I read somewhere that if you had therapy, or read a book, and had a good understanding of anxiety you could move on to level 2.) but I am constantly looking at my panic attack cards and I even rewrote the list to help it sink better into my brain.

Anyway, I am with you on the fear of dying!!! I have two daughters. One is all grown and one is only 12. One way I used to deal with my death fears is that I knew she would be well taken care of my her dad. Then he died of a heart attack when she was 2. Then I thought my mom would take good care of her.. But two years later she was killed in a car accident. Well this sent my dying fear into OVERDRIVE. Now if I die, she is an orphan with no one to take care of her in the way I would want. So dying scares the hell out of me!!

And lots of my dying fears happened at night just as I would go to bed. Yeah nothing like that to WAKE you up BIG TIME! Anyway, when the thought of dying comes screaming into my head and I say "what if I die" I counter it by "And what if I DON'T die?" And that actually helps calm me down. I never answer that question either. I know the answers. But I do make sure I don't answer it with any negative aspects.

I'm not afraid of dying from panic. I know that will pass and I'll be okay at the other end of it. I worry sbout the stress it puts on my boady every time, which is about 5 or6 times a day now that my mother has been sick with parkensins and lewy boady demtita she has 1 to 3 years to live, and it is genetic, so I think most of my self talk is about getting and dying from the same. I've talked with my DR. about getting pakensins and he says worry will cause me to be more pron to get it. Then he asked me if I looked like my Mother and we do very much so then he said well we do share alot more of the same genetics, which brings up more of a poss. that I will get it. I fear for me and my familys future. I'm also HPV possitive and last year had to have a full hystorectomy, due microscopic cancer tissue. I will die some day, just don't know when and how much fear, or pain. I also am afraid for my Mother it is going to get really bad for her. My dying fears happen at night too, just as I'm going to sleep, thats a great way to sleep with a load of adrenaline in our boady. I was taking Larazapam at night to sleep, but know i use aromatherapy it really helps.

Like you I am on session 2. With session 1, I thought the same thing about repetition but I guess this is like the marketing rule. A person has to hear something 5 times before they really believe it. I find by not doing anything else while listening to the session cd and concentrate on my breathing, I am comprehending more. Sounds like too much negative thinking.

I didn't know I had panic attacks. But I do. I am not scared to die, I am scared to live. I am terrified of not living. That does not make any sense and I bet a Dr. would tear it apart but I bet ya'll understand.
I'm learning so much.