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Initially over quite a few years, the thought was that I had a physical ailment. So, he diagnostics were aimed at looking for an ulcer. And so I had upper GI bariums and endoscopy, and nothing ever showed up. And then I’ve had, beginning to realize that it was a psychosomatic problem. I’ve been to various psychologists, and a very limited benefit, and I’ve tried meditation, which actually does help, but only very temporarily. But this, this has had a much more dramatic and rapid effect on everything I, anything I’ve ever had done before. And I’ve had this problem for 40 years. I did work under a psychologist for several years on the principle of cognitive behavior therapy, in which, in which you identify the thoughts that lead to the uncomfortable feelings, and then look at the evidence to support those, those negative thoughts and rework the thoughts.
And hopefully, you can change your negative feelings into positive ones. But it never really worked for me. And I understand now. I can see now that in going through that process in cognitive behavior therapy, you are reworking the problems and the negativities, and perhaps reinforcing those negative pathways. Whereas in this system, you are leaving all that behind. Since doing the program I have felt significantly less anxious and I’ve had less abdominal pain, and I feel generally calmer. Well, the pain that I have had has been upper abdominal, upper gi, sort of a tightness and sometimes a burning, sort of a bit like an ulcer, I believe. Now I do get, I am getting twinges of tightness, but no burning. And a lot of the time I’m completely free of pain. The pain actually makes me anxious. So not having the pain, I feel much calmer. The pain does tend to wake me up. And every night I’ve been here, I’ve had a pretty good night. So, of course, sleep is so, so soothing for the mind that I feel just much, much, calmer and brighter. And I feel I’m more present in situations that I find myself more able to focus on conversations. My partner has a friend in Halifax who had multiple chemical sensitivities and took the program and was talking to my partner, Roberta. And, somehow Roberta perceived that this could be helpful for anxiety and told me about it. And I was immediately interested thinking that it was a matter of retraining the brain. It seemed to make sense that this could work for me. I’m looking forward to a life of where I feel calm and serene and present in the moment. I would definitely encourage someone to take this program. I think it’s, it seems to be working so well for so many people. I’m very optimistic that it’s gonna work for me because I’ve got, I’m so much better within the co within the course of five days. So I’m pretty confident that it’s gonna work, and I think I would be able to tell other people with confidence who have anxiety that that, that it could work for them.
