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The Linden Method has now helped over 156,000 people who suffer from anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder and panic attacks. It is a very effect method that does not require medication, nor the usual therapy sessions. Charles Linden - who developed the method - was a sufferer for many years until he worked out how to cure his deep anxieties himself. The Linden Method is SO successful that it is actually guaranteed to give you good results.
See the details at www.cure-panic-attack.com
Monday, 4 August 2008
Wednesday, 30 July 2008
The Linden Method is The BEST!
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The Linden Method is the NUMBER ONE self-help cure for
Panic and Anxiety Attacks and phobias.
Now 103,769 people have used it to get their lives back!
The Linden Method is the NUMBER ONE self-help cure for
Panic and Anxiety Attacks and phobias.
Now 103,769 people have used it to get their lives back!
Tuesday, 26 June 2007
The Linden Method Can Help Sufferers Of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
There is now a way for people who suffer from OCD to cure themselves at home without harmful medication and without having to 'think positive' or undergo hypnosis.
The principle involved is to 'retrain' the Amygdala Gland, which controls our reaction to stress and emotional stimulation.
It will therefore also cure phobias, anxiety, stress and panic attacks, enabling sufferers to return to leading a normal life, lose weight if necessary and gain self-confidence.
The Linden Method was developed by Charles Linden, who was himself a sufferer of anxiety phobias for many years, before discovering this remarkable technique that has now curd thousands of people worldwide. Read his story at www.worry.cjb.net.
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is the name given to the condition that causes conscious or sub-conscious thought processes to control your actions compulsively. These actions are said to be obsessive because they usually involve a normal action that is repeated over and over again forming what is described as a ritual.
These compulsions commonly include rituals such as compulsive hand washing, counting, checking, (that you have not left the gas on, for example), cleaning and other exaggerations of normal activities. These compulsive rituals can seriously and quite destructively interfere with normal life and can sometimes be accompanied with other anxiety disorders such as agoraphobia and panic disorder.
The usual treatment for this condition is therapy based. When the patient understands that their actions are irrational, they can use the therapy exercises to retrain themselves to react more appropriately and eventually to re-learn normal behaviour.
The success of therapy based treatment is dependent on the psychologist’s ability and your willingness to practice the therapeutic exercises that you are prescribed. Using the diversion tactics in my program, it is possible to eliminate these compulsions from your life. The secret of ridding yourself of OCD is to learn to divert your mind away from inappropriate rituals in order to replace them with more appropriate 'normal' habits.
The Amygdala is the body's 'Anxiety Switch'
The Amygdala gland belongs to the limbic system and plays an important part in the development of emotions. It was only recently (1989, New York Medical University) that scientists discovered the role of the Amygdala gland in storing and releasing emotional trauma. The Amygdala gland is found about 1" into the forehead where your index fingers fall. A simple way to locate the Amygdala gland is by placing your thumbs in your ears, and then place your middle fingers near the inside corners of your eyes.
Under normal circumstances, it remains in the 'off' position, only becoming activated when appropriate anxiety is required, in times of appropriate danger or threat for example.
Repeated activation of this 'switch', during times of stress, sadness, grief or anger for example, can cause it to become 'stuck' in the 'on' position. This allows acute anxiety disorders, panic attacks and phobias to develop.
This happens when the Amygdala learns new behaviour. Because it has been taught a new level of anxiety through your anxious behaviour, it incorrectly resets itself to the new 'benchmark' or 'normal' anxiety level for your body. Even though you consciously know that it feels wrong, you are unable to consciously alter it once it has become set.
This process of learning is called Operant Conditioning. Scientists have known for many years that this is responsible for the production of all anxiety disorders, including panic attacks and phobias.
Under normal conditions, Operant Conditioning is used by the brain to acquire new knowledge, like learning to read, drive or play a musical instrument. Practicing (repeating) an action or group of actions causes us to improve the skill. This same process happens in every single anxiety disorder sufferer. It is what causes anxiety, panic attacks and phobias. It is this and nothing else, which needs to be addressed and reversed in order to quickly and permanently eliminate anxiety, panic attacks, OCD, PTSD and agoraphobia.
All of these conditions, regardless of how severe they are or how long you have had them, are a result of the very same mechanism and therefore require the very same treatment.
Traditional methods, such as Psychology and Psychiatry, use 'talking therapy' to identify the cause of your anxiety or panic attacks, then analyze it over and over again, giving you exercises to follow or even diaries to fill in. The cause of anxiety disorders and panic attacks is not the 'life event' that created the stressful environment (abuse, bereavement, work stress etc.) The actual cause is the way the Amygdala responded to that event and continues to produce anxiety and panic attacks, long after the event (when the Amygdala 'switch' gets stuck 'on'.)
By revisiting the perceived 'causes' during therapy and analyzing your actions, you are actually reinforcing the anxiety, practicing it and making it habitual, because it is remains at the very forefront of your mind! The Linden Method does this quickly and permanently without the need for expensive therapy, drugs or disturbing psychological exercises.
The Amygdala gland can be easily re-programmed by the Linden Method (see www.worry.cjb.net) which very effectively cures all manner of anxiety, stress and panic attack problems. This also helps overweight people to diet easily and gain self-confidence.
Find more details and benefits at www.worry.cjb.net.
There is now a way for people who suffer from OCD to cure themselves at home without harmful medication and without having to 'think positive' or undergo hypnosis.
The principle involved is to 'retrain' the Amygdala Gland, which controls our reaction to stress and emotional stimulation.
It will therefore also cure phobias, anxiety, stress and panic attacks, enabling sufferers to return to leading a normal life, lose weight if necessary and gain self-confidence.
The Linden Method was developed by Charles Linden, who was himself a sufferer of anxiety phobias for many years, before discovering this remarkable technique that has now curd thousands of people worldwide. Read his story at www.worry.cjb.net.
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is the name given to the condition that causes conscious or sub-conscious thought processes to control your actions compulsively. These actions are said to be obsessive because they usually involve a normal action that is repeated over and over again forming what is described as a ritual.
These compulsions commonly include rituals such as compulsive hand washing, counting, checking, (that you have not left the gas on, for example), cleaning and other exaggerations of normal activities. These compulsive rituals can seriously and quite destructively interfere with normal life and can sometimes be accompanied with other anxiety disorders such as agoraphobia and panic disorder.
The usual treatment for this condition is therapy based. When the patient understands that their actions are irrational, they can use the therapy exercises to retrain themselves to react more appropriately and eventually to re-learn normal behaviour.
The success of therapy based treatment is dependent on the psychologist’s ability and your willingness to practice the therapeutic exercises that you are prescribed. Using the diversion tactics in my program, it is possible to eliminate these compulsions from your life. The secret of ridding yourself of OCD is to learn to divert your mind away from inappropriate rituals in order to replace them with more appropriate 'normal' habits.
The Amygdala is the body's 'Anxiety Switch'
The Amygdala gland belongs to the limbic system and plays an important part in the development of emotions. It was only recently (1989, New York Medical University) that scientists discovered the role of the Amygdala gland in storing and releasing emotional trauma. The Amygdala gland is found about 1" into the forehead where your index fingers fall. A simple way to locate the Amygdala gland is by placing your thumbs in your ears, and then place your middle fingers near the inside corners of your eyes.
Under normal circumstances, it remains in the 'off' position, only becoming activated when appropriate anxiety is required, in times of appropriate danger or threat for example.
Repeated activation of this 'switch', during times of stress, sadness, grief or anger for example, can cause it to become 'stuck' in the 'on' position. This allows acute anxiety disorders, panic attacks and phobias to develop.
This happens when the Amygdala learns new behaviour. Because it has been taught a new level of anxiety through your anxious behaviour, it incorrectly resets itself to the new 'benchmark' or 'normal' anxiety level for your body. Even though you consciously know that it feels wrong, you are unable to consciously alter it once it has become set.
This process of learning is called Operant Conditioning. Scientists have known for many years that this is responsible for the production of all anxiety disorders, including panic attacks and phobias.
Under normal conditions, Operant Conditioning is used by the brain to acquire new knowledge, like learning to read, drive or play a musical instrument. Practicing (repeating) an action or group of actions causes us to improve the skill. This same process happens in every single anxiety disorder sufferer. It is what causes anxiety, panic attacks and phobias. It is this and nothing else, which needs to be addressed and reversed in order to quickly and permanently eliminate anxiety, panic attacks, OCD, PTSD and agoraphobia.
All of these conditions, regardless of how severe they are or how long you have had them, are a result of the very same mechanism and therefore require the very same treatment.
Traditional methods, such as Psychology and Psychiatry, use 'talking therapy' to identify the cause of your anxiety or panic attacks, then analyze it over and over again, giving you exercises to follow or even diaries to fill in. The cause of anxiety disorders and panic attacks is not the 'life event' that created the stressful environment (abuse, bereavement, work stress etc.) The actual cause is the way the Amygdala responded to that event and continues to produce anxiety and panic attacks, long after the event (when the Amygdala 'switch' gets stuck 'on'.)
By revisiting the perceived 'causes' during therapy and analyzing your actions, you are actually reinforcing the anxiety, practicing it and making it habitual, because it is remains at the very forefront of your mind! The Linden Method does this quickly and permanently without the need for expensive therapy, drugs or disturbing psychological exercises.
The Amygdala gland can be easily re-programmed by the Linden Method (see www.worry.cjb.net) which very effectively cures all manner of anxiety, stress and panic attack problems. This also helps overweight people to diet easily and gain self-confidence.
Find more details and benefits at www.worry.cjb.net.
Friday, 16 February 2007
Re-programming the Amygdala Gland in Rats Shows How Fear and Stress Can Be Eliminated
Researchers funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) have discovered a high tech way to quell panic in rats. They have detected the brain's equivalent of an "all clear" signal, that, when simulated, turns off fear. The discovery has now lead to non-drug, physiological treatments for runaway fear responses seen in anxiety disorders in humans. This is done by a treatment known as The Linden Method, developed by Charles Linden, a Briton who suffered badly from panic attacks, phobias and stress disorders.
The NIMH experiments were carried out on rats. Rats normally freeze with fear when they hear a tone they have been conditioned to associate with an electric shock. Dr. Gregory Quirk and Mohammed Milad, Ponce School of Medicine, Puerto Rico, have now demonstrated that stimulating a site in the front part of the brain, the prefrontal cortex, extinguishes this fear response by mimicking the brain's own "safety signal." They report on their findings in the November 7, 2002 Nature.
"Repeated exposure to traumatic reminders without any adverse consequences causes fear responses to gradually disappear," explained Quirk. "Such reduction of fear appears to be an active rather than passive process. It doesn't erase the fear association from memory, but generates a new memory for safety."
The researchers recorded electrical activity of neurons in the prefrontal cortex as rats were fear-conditioned — taught to fear a tone by repeatedly pairing it with a shock. Then they abolished this conditioned fear by presenting the tone without the shock; the animals no longer froze when they heard the tone.
Although inactive during both procedures, neurons near the middle of the prefrontal cortex, the infralimbic area, fired conspicuously when the tone was sounded on the following day. This activity proved to be the brain's way of signaling that the tone no longer presaged a shock. The more the cells fired — i.e., the louder this safety signal — the less the rats froze. Animals that showed the most infralimbic activity behaved as if they had never been fear conditioned at all.
The researchers then electrically stimulated the infralimbic area in rats that had been fear conditioned but not extinguished — in effect simulating the safety signal, while pairing it with the tone. Remarkably, the rats showed little freezing. Later, the rats continued to be unafraid of the tone even without the stimulation, suggesting that memory for extinction was strengthened by experimentally mimicking the safety signal.
Since the prefrontal cortex is known to project to the amygdala, a hub of fear memory deep in the brain, the researchers propose that increased activity of infralimbic neurons in the prefrontal cortex strengthens memory of safety by inhibiting the amygdala's memory of fear. They speculate that stimulating parts of the prefrontal cortex in anxiety disorder patients, using an experimental technique called transcranial magnetic stimulation, might help them control fear.
For more information on how The Linden Method can help people suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, go to www.itsagoodlife.co.uk/worry.html
Researchers funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) have discovered a high tech way to quell panic in rats. They have detected the brain's equivalent of an "all clear" signal, that, when simulated, turns off fear. The discovery has now lead to non-drug, physiological treatments for runaway fear responses seen in anxiety disorders in humans. This is done by a treatment known as The Linden Method, developed by Charles Linden, a Briton who suffered badly from panic attacks, phobias and stress disorders.
The NIMH experiments were carried out on rats. Rats normally freeze with fear when they hear a tone they have been conditioned to associate with an electric shock. Dr. Gregory Quirk and Mohammed Milad, Ponce School of Medicine, Puerto Rico, have now demonstrated that stimulating a site in the front part of the brain, the prefrontal cortex, extinguishes this fear response by mimicking the brain's own "safety signal." They report on their findings in the November 7, 2002 Nature.
"Repeated exposure to traumatic reminders without any adverse consequences causes fear responses to gradually disappear," explained Quirk. "Such reduction of fear appears to be an active rather than passive process. It doesn't erase the fear association from memory, but generates a new memory for safety."
The researchers recorded electrical activity of neurons in the prefrontal cortex as rats were fear-conditioned — taught to fear a tone by repeatedly pairing it with a shock. Then they abolished this conditioned fear by presenting the tone without the shock; the animals no longer froze when they heard the tone.
Although inactive during both procedures, neurons near the middle of the prefrontal cortex, the infralimbic area, fired conspicuously when the tone was sounded on the following day. This activity proved to be the brain's way of signaling that the tone no longer presaged a shock. The more the cells fired — i.e., the louder this safety signal — the less the rats froze. Animals that showed the most infralimbic activity behaved as if they had never been fear conditioned at all.
The researchers then electrically stimulated the infralimbic area in rats that had been fear conditioned but not extinguished — in effect simulating the safety signal, while pairing it with the tone. Remarkably, the rats showed little freezing. Later, the rats continued to be unafraid of the tone even without the stimulation, suggesting that memory for extinction was strengthened by experimentally mimicking the safety signal.
Since the prefrontal cortex is known to project to the amygdala, a hub of fear memory deep in the brain, the researchers propose that increased activity of infralimbic neurons in the prefrontal cortex strengthens memory of safety by inhibiting the amygdala's memory of fear. They speculate that stimulating parts of the prefrontal cortex in anxiety disorder patients, using an experimental technique called transcranial magnetic stimulation, might help them control fear.
For more information on how The Linden Method can help people suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, go to www.itsagoodlife.co.uk/worry.html
Friday, 9 February 2007
Help For Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Post-Traunatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD for short, is a very real illness that can affect even the strongest, fittest, even the most emotionally well-balanced person.
You will have heard the saying that 'every man has his price', and so it is when a seriously unpleasant event happens to us. we may think that we handled it well at the time, perhaps were even unaffected by it, but later problems start to arise that may not even appear to be connected to that event.
So the symptoms may seemed disconnected to the real cause, which makes a solution harder to find.
Indeed, the sufferer of PTSD may not find much sympathy from friens, family, or the medical profession. Medication may well be offered, but things such as Prozac can have other effects that are detrimental. Some medications can leave the patient feeling suicidal rather than helping with the PTSD. This has actually happened in my own experience.
There is evidence to show that a cause of many fear- and stress-related problems lays in a part of the brain known as the Amygdala. This gland can become re-programmed by a prolonged or severe mental trauma, which results in a bad reaction on an ongoing basis.
But just as this imbalance can be created, so it can be cured. By using a technique called the Linden Method, you can re-train your own brain to cancel out the signals that are causing you this problem.
If you go to www.lindenmethod.com/pages/phoenix you will be able to read more about this method and how it can also benefit many other symptoms that seem to be a result of our ever-more-complicated lives.
The important point to note is that this does not rely on any sort of 'positive-thinking' mumbo-jumbo. Nor are you subjected to hypno-therapy or harmful medications.
www.lindenmethod.com/pages/phoenix
You will have heard the saying that 'every man has his price', and so it is when a seriously unpleasant event happens to us. we may think that we handled it well at the time, perhaps were even unaffected by it, but later problems start to arise that may not even appear to be connected to that event.
So the symptoms may seemed disconnected to the real cause, which makes a solution harder to find.
Indeed, the sufferer of PTSD may not find much sympathy from friens, family, or the medical profession. Medication may well be offered, but things such as Prozac can have other effects that are detrimental. Some medications can leave the patient feeling suicidal rather than helping with the PTSD. This has actually happened in my own experience.
There is evidence to show that a cause of many fear- and stress-related problems lays in a part of the brain known as the Amygdala. This gland can become re-programmed by a prolonged or severe mental trauma, which results in a bad reaction on an ongoing basis.
But just as this imbalance can be created, so it can be cured. By using a technique called the Linden Method, you can re-train your own brain to cancel out the signals that are causing you this problem.
If you go to www.lindenmethod.com/pages/phoenix you will be able to read more about this method and how it can also benefit many other symptoms that seem to be a result of our ever-more-complicated lives.
The important point to note is that this does not rely on any sort of 'positive-thinking' mumbo-jumbo. Nor are you subjected to hypno-therapy or harmful medications.
www.lindenmethod.com/pages/phoenix
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