This visualisation is EXTREMELY helpful!
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2012 3:18 pm
Hi everyone, hope you are all doing well and cracking on with Lesson 2. I am on Day 4 of Lesson Two and feeling good. I haven't had a panic attack in a long time, but I do still get waves of fear. Normally my fear is that this condition will be permanent/get worse. I find it hard to remember during those moments that the fear is always fleeting and that I just need to stay strong and it will pass. I tend to think from a victim point of view, "See, it's here again. I'm still struggling with this." This leads me to get very discouraged and depressed.
This happened to me last night. I was at a sewing class and felt great pretty much the whole day, but I had seen something on television earlier in the day about a girl who had attempted suicide (but was now doing much better!) on a program on TLC, and I guess it became a scary thought. As I pulled into my driveway I started to feel that wave of fear, and I did for a split second have that victim thinking, but then I remembered the six steps and I simply DISMISSED the thought, so that in the FIVE seconds it took me to walk from the car to get into my house, I was feeling just fine again. So this program REALLY does work!!
My Dad used to tell me that if I had a bad thought, pictures myself out at sea on a boat, and picture physically grabbing the thought and tossing it overboard. This never really worked for me, but I agree with the idea that visualisation helps. What I've been doing since I started the program is whenever I have a sad/scared/worried/negative thought, I close my eyes and picture the thought as a red balloon. Then I picture myself with a pin in my hand, and I go up and pop the balloon. The pieces go flying and the thought dissipates and it's gone. Sometimes I have to picture myself popping a whole bunch of balloons, but this usually helps to make me feel better.
I hope this can help someone!
This happened to me last night. I was at a sewing class and felt great pretty much the whole day, but I had seen something on television earlier in the day about a girl who had attempted suicide (but was now doing much better!) on a program on TLC, and I guess it became a scary thought. As I pulled into my driveway I started to feel that wave of fear, and I did for a split second have that victim thinking, but then I remembered the six steps and I simply DISMISSED the thought, so that in the FIVE seconds it took me to walk from the car to get into my house, I was feeling just fine again. So this program REALLY does work!!
My Dad used to tell me that if I had a bad thought, pictures myself out at sea on a boat, and picture physically grabbing the thought and tossing it overboard. This never really worked for me, but I agree with the idea that visualisation helps. What I've been doing since I started the program is whenever I have a sad/scared/worried/negative thought, I close my eyes and picture the thought as a red balloon. Then I picture myself with a pin in my hand, and I go up and pop the balloon. The pieces go flying and the thought dissipates and it's gone. Sometimes I have to picture myself popping a whole bunch of balloons, but this usually helps to make me feel better.
I hope this can help someone!