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Hey guys, I'm a bit tired as I have had a awesome and full day, it's 10:15pm now and just wanting to post a little bit about this thing I've been experimenting with as you can read about in my log. I will post more about TLM tomorrow when I wake up, but I'll give you the jist...
I purchased The Linden Method (TLM hereafter) on the 20th of December and have applied it since and have had rather remarkable shifts in consciousness.
TLM was created by Charles Linden, a former high anxiety sufferer who was a room-bound agorophobic with tonnes of OCD obsessions, would have 8-10 panic attacks a day, and generally went through hell from the age of 7 til he was 27. I began researching the method a month before I bought it and the dude's medical records which were released show that Charles was really horendously anxious. Why I respect Charles is that he tried absolutely everything to get rid of his anxiety, but upon finding absolutely no success and having spend nearly £100,000 on psychological counselling (he had to re-mortage his house!), he dared to reject everything we are told about anxiety and research people who were recovered anxiety sufferers. After putting in a lot of leg work, he found some common threads in those who recover from high anxiety.
Their environment.
The guy's story is really so interesting, I find him an inspiration tbh, I use his membership site and go through the dude's webimars and his perspective is really something that resonates with me.
What Charles is essentially saying in TLM is this: your anxiety and stress/worry is caused by your body's fight or flight response becoming re-set at a higher than normal level, like a thermostat that's stuck wayyy too high. As such, anxiety is a behaviour! It's behaviour exhibited when your anxiety level is stuck at an inappropriate level. It's not a mental illness! It's a friggin' bad habbit perpetuated by YOU! Every time you read info on resolving anxiety or visit Dr.'s, take pills or whatever, you're giving your mind the matter it needs to nourish the anxiety. This is interesting as it reminded me of something Danny Roddy said concerning a lot of people who post on health boards most likely needing to absolutely quit reading such boards to start making health progress. Charles says procrastination, uncertainty, and all that sort of neurotic ***t can be a symptom of high anxiety because when anxiety is high and your flight or fight response is running amock, your mind does something called risk assessments, essentially asking 'what if...' to everything in your environment, hence why anxious people have absolutely inappropriate thoughts sometimes and may begin to question their sanity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvVevJd ... DC&index=1
http://www.thelindenmethod.co.uk/anxiety/
He talks a lot about something he calls the 'creative intellect'. Understanding this is very important in healing anxiety.
If your skeptical, I was too. I have been anxious since 17 tbh, and though there were times when it was low and I have always been functional on the outside, on the inside it's not been a ******* rose garden to say the least lol. I have taken beta blockers from a Dr., anti-psychotics and anti-depressants from a psychiatrist, been to many sessions with psychologists, and while all of these things seemed to help in the short-term, long term they did absolutely jack ***t. This is because high anxiety cannot be fixed like this. It's an unconscious process, you can talk about it all day and try to think unanxious thoughts, but while your amygdala is working in overdrive, you'll be pissing your life away and completely wasting your time getting nowhere. TLM goes to the root.
I am getting pretty tired now so will have to continue tomorrow, apologies for that, but I have a lot to say about this method and it draws paralell's with the ideas of some other interesting people like Jon Gabriel who thinks weight regulation is evoked by starvation turning on 'Famine and Temperature' programs, and for Jon chronic stress is just another thing that turns on the famine and temperature programs which lead to weight gain.
My own experience after 12 days of TLM:
-Obsessive thoughts are gone! I used to think some friggin weird ***t when my specific anxety trigger came up. I can remember the stupid thoughts I used to have at this point but only just about as they truly did leave.
-Procrastination gone! I have been a chronic procrastinator since around 17. Now I am getting more and more done. I just live differently now. I listen to my inner self, and if I begin to feel as if I'm doing too much, I kick back and do some of Charles' guided visualisations/listen to music or something, and usually within 30 mins I feel totaly chill again and want to get more tasks done. I am practicing guitar, learning French, going for hour long walks listening to music, training in the gym, doing movement pattern based training at home (Original Strength Resets), reading interesting fiction, taking infrared saunas...Just chilling out and making life meaningful/growing as a person. It's coming very naturally.
-Increased energy and 'mental space' - like even when driving I am much more aware of things around me/much less vigilant.
-Fat loss starting to happen
-Better sleep and elimination
But most of all, after calling TLM support team a few times, I'm reconnecting with the true me.
I am really happy I found this. I am getting less anxious and becoming more worry free as the days go by.
God I am getting tired now...lol....So many things I wanted to say but just didn't have the mental energy. I've been up since 7am and all day today has just been doing cool, meaningful activity. Life is different now. I'm starting to truly live now at the age of 24. Trust me guys, high anxiety is no place to be!
Cheers, Rav
I purchased The Linden Method (TLM hereafter) on the 20th of December and have applied it since and have had rather remarkable shifts in consciousness.
TLM was created by Charles Linden, a former high anxiety sufferer who was a room-bound agorophobic with tonnes of OCD obsessions, would have 8-10 panic attacks a day, and generally went through hell from the age of 7 til he was 27. I began researching the method a month before I bought it and the dude's medical records which were released show that Charles was really horendously anxious. Why I respect Charles is that he tried absolutely everything to get rid of his anxiety, but upon finding absolutely no success and having spend nearly £100,000 on psychological counselling (he had to re-mortage his house!), he dared to reject everything we are told about anxiety and research people who were recovered anxiety sufferers. After putting in a lot of leg work, he found some common threads in those who recover from high anxiety.
Their environment.
The guy's story is really so interesting, I find him an inspiration tbh, I use his membership site and go through the dude's webimars and his perspective is really something that resonates with me.
What Charles is essentially saying in TLM is this: your anxiety and stress/worry is caused by your body's fight or flight response becoming re-set at a higher than normal level, like a thermostat that's stuck wayyy too high. As such, anxiety is a behaviour! It's behaviour exhibited when your anxiety level is stuck at an inappropriate level. It's not a mental illness! It's a friggin' bad habbit perpetuated by YOU! Every time you read info on resolving anxiety or visit Dr.'s, take pills or whatever, you're giving your mind the matter it needs to nourish the anxiety. This is interesting as it reminded me of something Danny Roddy said concerning a lot of people who post on health boards most likely needing to absolutely quit reading such boards to start making health progress. Charles says procrastination, uncertainty, and all that sort of neurotic ***t can be a symptom of high anxiety because when anxiety is high and your flight or fight response is running amock, your mind does something called risk assessments, essentially asking 'what if...' to everything in your environment, hence why anxious people have absolutely inappropriate thoughts sometimes and may begin to question their sanity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvVevJd ... DC&index=1
http://www.thelindenmethod.co.uk/anxiety/
He talks a lot about something he calls the 'creative intellect'. Understanding this is very important in healing anxiety.
If your skeptical, I was too. I have been anxious since 17 tbh, and though there were times when it was low and I have always been functional on the outside, on the inside it's not been a ******* rose garden to say the least lol. I have taken beta blockers from a Dr., anti-psychotics and anti-depressants from a psychiatrist, been to many sessions with psychologists, and while all of these things seemed to help in the short-term, long term they did absolutely jack ***t. This is because high anxiety cannot be fixed like this. It's an unconscious process, you can talk about it all day and try to think unanxious thoughts, but while your amygdala is working in overdrive, you'll be pissing your life away and completely wasting your time getting nowhere. TLM goes to the root.
I am getting pretty tired now so will have to continue tomorrow, apologies for that, but I have a lot to say about this method and it draws paralell's with the ideas of some other interesting people like Jon Gabriel who thinks weight regulation is evoked by starvation turning on 'Famine and Temperature' programs, and for Jon chronic stress is just another thing that turns on the famine and temperature programs which lead to weight gain.
My own experience after 12 days of TLM:
-Obsessive thoughts are gone! I used to think some friggin weird ***t when my specific anxety trigger came up. I can remember the stupid thoughts I used to have at this point but only just about as they truly did leave.
-Procrastination gone! I have been a chronic procrastinator since around 17. Now I am getting more and more done. I just live differently now. I listen to my inner self, and if I begin to feel as if I'm doing too much, I kick back and do some of Charles' guided visualisations/listen to music or something, and usually within 30 mins I feel totaly chill again and want to get more tasks done. I am practicing guitar, learning French, going for hour long walks listening to music, training in the gym, doing movement pattern based training at home (Original Strength Resets), reading interesting fiction, taking infrared saunas...Just chilling out and making life meaningful/growing as a person. It's coming very naturally.
-Increased energy and 'mental space' - like even when driving I am much more aware of things around me/much less vigilant.
-Fat loss starting to happen
-Better sleep and elimination
But most of all, after calling TLM support team a few times, I'm reconnecting with the true me.
I am really happy I found this. I am getting less anxious and becoming more worry free as the days go by.
God I am getting tired now...lol....So many things I wanted to say but just didn't have the mental energy. I've been up since 7am and all day today has just been doing cool, meaningful activity. Life is different now. I'm starting to truly live now at the age of 24. Trust me guys, high anxiety is no place to be!
Cheers, Rav