From my late teenage years I started to suffer from acute anxiety attacks and this pervasive fear took it's hold on an even deeper level within me during my early twenties. So I tried to deal with it by using one of the most common anesthetics for emotional pain - large quantities of alcohol, and sometimes also using drugs. This worked to keep me on an even keel for 2 or 3 years but as with all emotional pain that we deny or repress, it intensifies and comes out in a dysfuntional and lots more damaging way, in my case as chronic, serious episodes of depression.
So off I went to a psychiatrist to see if he could offer a solution. Of course, modern psychiatry has moved to the prescription book as it's first means of treatment, so medication is what I got. My body felt drugged and sleepy at first but the drugs did help me to deal with life, but alas, anti-depressants and tranquilizers only help us to repress the emotional pain and to cope, while we then go about finding the real cure to the fundamental problem, instead of simply treating the symptoms.
I first started meditating in 1999 when I went to the TM (Transcendental Meditation) center close to where I lived, in Dublin, Ireland . It was extraordinary . I experienced very pleasurable, deep meditations from the beginning. I knew this was going to be a feature of my life long term . But my alcohol and substance abuse continued and the pain only intensified.
I realised that if I was to recover and heal that I would need to get sober and clean up my life. So I joined a 12-Step program and got sober. After a year sober I started mediting again, first with TM and then using an audio meditation program called Lifeflow, after reading a favorable review of the Lifeflow v Holosync programs online . It enables deep meditation by simply listening to the sountracks. The awareness created by it is amazing and I have healed in many ways emotionally in the past 3 years of using it.
Over the last one or two years some family and friends have joined me on this amazing journey of discovery and are using LifeFlow also. These new "brainwave entrainment" audio technologies are enabling expansion in awareness in folk who have been struggling to find consistency in using traditional meditation techniques alone.
So off I went to a psychiatrist to see if he could offer a solution. Of course, modern psychiatry has moved to the prescription book as it's first means of treatment, so medication is what I got. My body felt drugged and sleepy at first but the drugs did help me to deal with life, but alas, anti-depressants and tranquilizers only help us to repress the emotional pain and to cope, while we then go about finding the real cure to the fundamental problem, instead of simply treating the symptoms.
I first started meditating in 1999 when I went to the TM (Transcendental Meditation) center close to where I lived, in Dublin, Ireland . It was extraordinary . I experienced very pleasurable, deep meditations from the beginning. I knew this was going to be a feature of my life long term . But my alcohol and substance abuse continued and the pain only intensified.
I realised that if I was to recover and heal that I would need to get sober and clean up my life. So I joined a 12-Step program and got sober. After a year sober I started mediting again, first with TM and then using an audio meditation program called Lifeflow, after reading a favorable review of the Lifeflow v Holosync programs online . It enables deep meditation by simply listening to the sountracks. The awareness created by it is amazing and I have healed in many ways emotionally in the past 3 years of using it.
Over the last one or two years some family and friends have joined me on this amazing journey of discovery and are using LifeFlow also. These new "brainwave entrainment" audio technologies are enabling expansion in awareness in folk who have been struggling to find consistency in using traditional meditation techniques alone.
About the Author:
Gertrude Weiss is a healer and practices Meditation and Yoga. She was once impressed by a Lifeflow v Holosync review that convinced her to experience deep meditation and accelerated growth using LifeFlow. She is living in Cologne, Germany.
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