I like LSC materials - you can choose some of the paraliminals or the library - depends on you. The library costs around $360 I believe. A number of the paraliminals can be used in a lot of different ways. I would also very highly recommend SFQ level 1. This is for your overall health and something you'll start feeling almost immediately (I mean the feeling of energy) and will enhance your well being as you keep practicing. I started SFQ recently but I'll be attending their retreat in Oct. I am recommending (actually to everyone) SFQ strongly because as I started practicing and learning more about energy channels, and our interaction with energy, I'm learning that problems in our body occurs because of some type of blockage. SFQ can help you to clear your blockage.
And please, don't think of yourself as having some type of disorder to someone else's standard. Just think of your situation as having a small blockage which you are clearing with self help tools.
Are you studying now? Working?
There has been a lot of research and progress in the area of treating anxiety, and a lot of proven and sound techniques are available.
Before you give Centerpointe large sums of money for their questionable program, try this first:
http://www.stresscenter.com/
Also, the book Energized Hypnosis is very informative as to what goes on in terms of the brain and conditioning that keeps us engaged in repeating patterns and how to intervene on your own behalf.
http://newfalcon.com/books/energizedhypnosis.htm
I've been into Ericksonian hypnosis and hypnosis in general for a very long time, and I can tell you that little book is a gem.
[This message has been edited by babayada (edited August 24, 2005).]
The idea of meditation is slowing the mind down and sitting quietly and experiencing some tranquility in your thoughts. In reality even sitting thinking on one subject or day dreaming is meditation. Sitting and thinking is a type of dynamic meditation. However most of use don't watch what we are thinking and focus on what we don'. Effective metitation is when you focus on positive outcomes.
Did you know that one of the ways to to relax is to imagine yourself relaxed? Yep. make believe, pretend. Works especially well when you're sitting with your eyes close. Ever tried it? Sitting with your eyes closed pretending and imagining what it's like to be relaxed? Imagining how you'd behave if you were relaxed, might it be a kind of casual devil may care relaxed like James Bond? And then imagine what it would be like to carry that kind of relaxation into your day to day life. How you would act? How you would Feel, How you would talk? You dont' just want to feel your limbs are heavy while your eyes are closed right? If you're like me you don't find that comfortable or relaxing. I found waht makes me feel relaxed is enjoying pleasant thoughts happy imagainations and happy make believe events.
You want it to carry over to the other areas in your life. So when you sit and meditate and the mind starts thinking even louder imagine, pretend and make believe about things that make you happy. At some point the when you've imagined enough the mind will go quiet.
Alex
Meditation can have the effect of stirring the pot, so to speak. That is, things may get worse before they get better when you meditate.
Depending on circumstances, the various points in my life that were meditation heavy were often marked by experiences of internal crisis. I think it comes with the territory, at least for some people.
When you meditate, depending on the technique, I suppose, you're going right smack dab into the center of what is going on with you.
Good Luck