A Unique Approach to Treating Anxiety
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Charles Linden
Charles Linden has been coaching anxiety, panic attacks, OCD, stress and phobias elimination for over a decade. Charles contributes regularly at a wide range of forums across the world, teaches in workshops, presents video and audio programs, appears as expert guest on radio and as ‘in house expert’ in a variety of magazines and newspapers as well as having his own TV series.Charles is currently CEO and Director of The Linden Centers which he founded in 2001 to provide support to his growing client base. To date over 100,000 people in 172 countries across six continents have used The Linden Method to permanently eliminate their anxiety.
By Charles Linden
Published on 04/27/2009
Anxiety is not a mental illness... no more so than smoking or alcohol
abuse; all three are habitual behaviours born of and perpetuated by
conscious repetition. As the anxiety learning process achieves
credibility in a persons mind, new anxious neural pathways are built
telling the brain that this new behaviour is normal and perfectly
appropriate, these are then stored as memory.
Anxiety is not a mental illness... no more so than smoking or alcohol
abuse; all three are habitual behaviours born of and perpetuated by
conscious repetition. As the anxiety learning process achieves
credibility in a persons mind, new anxious neural pathways are built
telling the brain that this new behaviour is normal and perfectly
appropriate, these are then stored as memory.Every day, I receive dozens of emails and telephone calls from worried anxiety disorder sufferers asking me about medications, therapy and other less conventional treatments; my answer is simple, I DO NOT encourage the use of medication and there are so many therapies available now that it is difficult, especially for anxious people, to separate the wheat from the chaff.
Anxiety is not a mental illness... no more so than smoking or alcohol abuse; all three are habitual behaviours born of and perpetuated by conscious repetition.
As the anxiety learning process achieves credibility in a persons mind, new anxious neural pathways are built telling the brain that this new behaviour is normal and perfectly appropriate, these are then stored as memory.
As anxiety levels rise the brain continues to learn until a new normal level of anxiety is reached, practically totally inappropriate but physically scary and uncomfortable... but your brain thinks It's normal.
So when we reach the new level of anxiety and experience the physical manifestations of this new anxious habit such as panic attacks, GAD and agoraphobia (not to mention, the aches, the pains, the shortness of breath etc.), what can we possibly do to return to 'normal' levels of anxiety and get on with our lives?
We have to 'un-learn' the anxious habit.
This sounds simple but it is much more difficult than you would think. The brain has to forget the old, anxious, learnt behaviour and replace it with new more appropriate 'non-anxious' behaviour.
This can be done, drug free, without long counseling sessions that cost a small fortune, without 'face your fear' tactics or hypnosis.
The way this is done is through a structured, informative and supportive program, which teaches you exactly what you need to do every day, every hour and every minute in order to quickly and permanently rid your self of your anxiety condition.
This can be done and it works if you put the effort in, the only reason for failure is non-compliance... if you do it, it works!
This all sounds really simple and I know that it is not because I have done it, but it is far simpler than doing what every anxiety sufferer does every day of their lives, avoiding situations, people and places, losing time, money and opportunities and not being able to take advantage of everything life has to offer.
You have the ability to dis empower your anxiety disorder now, quickly, simply and permanently, you are the strongest person that you know!
This method has been confirmed by psychologists as THE solution to anxiety disorders... not one of a few solutions but THE method that every recovered anxiety sufferer has subconsciously used to become well again.
I am sure that other therapies have their place and some alternative therapies provide relaxation and stress relief advantages which assist in the recovery process but bad habits can only be overcome by replacing them with good habits and that IS the answer.
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Here are two testimonials. Order the program to help yourself at The Linden Method.
"Panic attacks and anxiety disorder ruled my life. I felt like I was going to die, your program empowered me to do something about it and educated me as to how to do it."-Jane Lampitt, California
Stuart Guest, of Lothian, Scotland, who talks about feeling "torn to bits" by things that happened to him when he was a kid, and dealing with his anxieties with medications: "I was addicted to tranquillizers and desperate."
He followed the program from The Linden Method, and says, "The panic attacks went immediately, the anxiety feelings stayed a bit longer but are now gone."
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Anxiety is not a mental illness... no more so than smoking or alcohol abuse; all three are habitual behaviours born of and perpetuated by conscious repetition.
As the anxiety learning process achieves credibility in a persons mind, new anxious neural pathways are built telling the brain that this new behaviour is normal and perfectly appropriate, these are then stored as memory.
As anxiety levels rise the brain continues to learn until a new normal level of anxiety is reached, practically totally inappropriate but physically scary and uncomfortable... but your brain thinks It's normal.So when we reach the new level of anxiety and experience the physical manifestations of this new anxious habit such as panic attacks, GAD and agoraphobia (not to mention, the aches, the pains, the shortness of breath etc.), what can we possibly do to return to 'normal' levels of anxiety and get on with our lives?
We have to 'un-learn' the anxious habit.
This sounds simple but it is much more difficult than you would think. The brain has to forget the old, anxious, learnt behaviour and replace it with new more appropriate 'non-anxious' behaviour.
This can be done, drug free, without long counseling sessions that cost a small fortune, without 'face your fear' tactics or hypnosis.
The way this is done is through a structured, informative and supportive program, which teaches you exactly what you need to do every day, every hour and every minute in order to quickly and permanently rid your self of your anxiety condition.
This can be done and it works if you put the effort in, the only reason for failure is non-compliance... if you do it, it works!
This all sounds really simple and I know that it is not because I have done it, but it is far simpler than doing what every anxiety sufferer does every day of their lives, avoiding situations, people and places, losing time, money and opportunities and not being able to take advantage of everything life has to offer.
You have the ability to dis empower your anxiety disorder now, quickly, simply and permanently, you are the strongest person that you know!
This method has been confirmed by psychologists as THE solution to anxiety disorders... not one of a few solutions but THE method that every recovered anxiety sufferer has subconsciously used to become well again.
I am sure that other therapies have their place and some alternative therapies provide relaxation and stress relief advantages which assist in the recovery process but bad habits can only be overcome by replacing them with good habits and that IS the answer.
~~~
Here are two testimonials. Order the program to help yourself at The Linden Method.
"Panic attacks and anxiety disorder ruled my life. I felt like I was going to die, your program empowered me to do something about it and educated me as to how to do it."-Jane Lampitt, California
Stuart Guest, of Lothian, Scotland, who talks about feeling "torn to bits" by things that happened to him when he was a kid, and dealing with his anxieties with medications: "I was addicted to tranquillizers and desperate."
He followed the program from The Linden Method, and says, "The panic attacks went immediately, the anxiety feelings stayed a bit longer but are now gone."
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