Self-Help for Your Nerves: Learn to relax and enjoy life again by overcoming stress and fear
Dr. Claire Weekesamazon.com
Self-Help for Your Nerves: Learn to relax and enjoy life again by overcoming stress and fear
Some people complain of a noise in their head like a pistol shot, which comes just as they are going off to sleep. Be pleased if you hear this. It is a sign that your tensed muscles are relaxing and that sleep is not far away.
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
... See moreGuilt opens the door to fear. Anxiety, worry, dread are only variants of fear in different guises.
It is said that the stomach is the most sympathetic organ in the body. It weeps when other organs are sick. It is certainly the focal point of depression.
The relief of loosening your tense hold on yourself, of giving up the struggle and recognizing that there is no battle to fight, except of your own making, may bring a calmness you have forgotten existed within you. In your tense effort to control yourself you have been releasing more and more adrenalin and so further exciting your organs to produc
... See more‘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
But do not make the mistake of thinking that it will go as soon as you cease to fear it. Your nervous system is still tired and will take time to heal, just as a broken leg takes time. However, as you improve and are no longer afraid of the churning, and do not try to cure it by controlling it, and are prepared to accept it and work with it present
... See moreSelf-pity wastes strength and time and frightens away those who would otherwise help you.
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.