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Dear John,

In a therapy group about anxiety that has been recently held at my Health Center, the psycologist said that concerning irrational fears we should look for distraction since they are not real fears, and that we should only pay attention and work with the rational fears.

To give you an exemple relating to my case: seeing that my neighbours are out in their garden, cleaning, watering, etc. makes me feel afraid because of many problems I had with them in the past, I feel as afraid as if they were going to hit me. Those are the irrational fears the psy was refering to.

I am a little bit confused because all my "irrational" fears come from years of being bullyed by this people, they have even climbed over my fence and destroyed many things in my garden, that is why I feel afraid to any mouvement of them, even when they don't do anything bad to me. I am alert all the time. Just thinking that they could do something bad to me makes me feel afraid, even if they are not at home. I feel afraid thinking that they will come back soon.
For me those are real fears, but for the psy they are irrational because my neighbours are not there and have not done anything wrong to me and that moment.

I work with my emotions following your method as much as I can, but now I have this doubt.

Could you please tell me if there is really any difference between irrational and rational fears when it comes to working with them, processing them?

Thank you so much.

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Hi John,

I do appreciate and feel greatful for your time and expertise in clearly describing how I must proceed with the panic and how to work with it.

Some doubts have been perfectly clarified, so it will be much easier to engage in this pressing work.

I also feel very grateful for having made it look less dramatic thanks to your final sentence... those few & cheerful words have encouraged me a lot as well, together with as I say your time and generous answer.

Hugs

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Hi from the Canary Islands,

I feel very fortunate and thankful for having read Emotional Cleansing and Deep Cleansing. After so many books and some therapy, at least something that makes sense.

I have one question:

Sometimes during the Induction or even during Feel III I feel terrified by my neighbor's voice who has been bullying me in different ways for 15 years. Sometimes it is not her voice but someone who has a similar voices but it's enough for me to panic.

My question is: what should I do at that moment? I feel it very difficult to go on with the practice, I need to go out and see if she is again plotting something against me or speaking badly about me. I loose all my powers. I just freeze. It is as if she wanted to destroy me by any means.
Even in an Alfa state during meditation I panic if I hear her voice.
What should I do then? Stop the work and start in a more reassuring time like night time? Or should I reconduct and integrate what is happening in my inner work (which as I say it's very difficult for me to do because my mind is 100% alert and I panic)?

Thank you very much again for the books and your attention.

Hugs

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