Self-Help for Your Nerves: Learn to relax and enjoy life again by overcoming stress and fear

‘All right! Let the feelings come. Running away won’t prevent them. But if I accept them, they will gradually calm down. In the meantime, I’ll keep my mind occupied with work, so that I need not think of them unnecessarily.’ Every

‘All right, yesterday was a bad day. Today may not be good either, but as the days go by, they will gradually improve if I let them.’

However ill you may be, you can do it. At first it may seem difficult, but as time passes and brings small successes, confidence grows and more success comes with growing confidence.

Whether breakdown be mild or severe, the basic cause is fear.

hands, pains around the heart, racing heart, giddy

Fighting is his natural defence, the only weapon he knows, so he fights even harder. But the harder he fights, the worse he becomes. Naturally – for fighting means more tension, tension more adrenalin and further stimulation of the adrenalin-releasing nerves, and so the continuation of symptoms.

While occupied, one can, as it were, divide one’s mind into two parts, the part that suffers and a new part that accepts and floats on.

You recover then by facing, accepting, floating, and letting time pass. You are beginning to know this pattern by heart? I hope so, because I want you to know it so well that you make it part of yourself. I want you to understand it so thoroughly that your thoughts fly to it when in doubt or difficulty. It will never fail you, if you apply it corre

incapacity known as nervous breakdown.