Posted by rabble_rouser on July 27, 2005, at 3:23:26
In reply to Anyone know how to raise the adrenaline bar?, posted by rabble_rouser on July 26, 2005, at 12:50:33
Hi all,
wow, thank you all for such a quick response! re the meditation, you are right - I have been using 'body awareness', breathing and visualisation type of meditation. I can make it work better when I use a CD, but I tend to fall asleep :P I have downloaded some 'morning mantra' stuff by Wayne Dyer which has chants - maybe I'll give it a double-click and see if it works - thanks pinkeye!
Re CBT - I agree. I had a year of CBT with a therapist which I suppose if I'm honest DID help me to lower the point at which I snap. The incident that sparked me at work yesterday was a real snowballer and took me by surprise - it was a person I had not met before, who was quite boisterous and confident and I found her quite attractive. I guess I felt like I had just suddenly been made a target 'for no reason', and I thought "oh no, why me again?!".
Thing kicker is , I realised after that the comment wasn't even a put down OR aimed at me - I just took it that way! Talk about 'the map is not the territory' - I was convinced that everyone was laughing at me so WALLOP, off goes my adrenaline! What I really hate is, because my sense of humour takes a vacation at that precise moment, witty come-backs are impossible too :(
I laughed at myself after, but was still angry that I had reacted like that. It makes me feel like such a party-pooper! Can I ask, Tamar, if this happens to you, do you feel deeply ashamed afterwards? I always do.
OK so - I am going to fill out a CBT sheet and do some mantras! I have also been teaching myself some NLP techniques on phobias and responses - I'll let you know if they work!
Thank you
Ross
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