Posted by 64bowtie on November 28, 2004, at 2:16:39
In reply to can't sit still: is it ADD?, posted by smokeymadison on November 28, 2004, at 0:07:03
SM,
I am sad for you that this seems so debilitating and troublesome. You can see (in your mind's eye) the remedy, once you know what to look for.
Panic, phobias, OCD, and your inability to sit quietly (in your own skin) can be a fear of thinking, a fear of "imaging". The confusing part at first is that we notice we are afraid of something. Then we generalise it and become afraid of the thought of that same something without the something even happening.
We then notice that we suddenly on occasion get the "heeby-jeebys" for no reason that we can think of. Under guidcd imagery, it has been discovered by neuroscientists, "imaging" the fearful [noun], (people, place, thing, idea), will in fact evoke the same hysteria and panic that an actual encouter does. In other words, a mental picture, seen or only felt, evokes the same degree of panic that the remembered encounter did. That's not crazy. It is however a waste of time and energy, we are going through all that fear stuff, and we are probably in safe and familiar surroundings when we're doing it. Save the outburst till danger is really happening.
I am not poo-poo-ing anyones fright as not debilitating. I recognize fright and panic and anxiety when I see it. But when seen in an objective out-of-body guided imagery by the anxious and panicked person, they always report that their disembodied fear seems a silly curiosity. I report these findings as a message of hope.
I have seen hundreds helped by this process of out-of-body guided imagery.
Rod
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