I've heard of such things, and agree that there are a lot of answers for anxiety that come from learning to be more in tune with/control of your sympathetic and parasympathetic nerve systems. I'd be interested to learn what you feel the book teaches.
I was very interested when my horrible horrible horrible dental experiences went from having generalized anxiety/fear/apprehension before/during appointments... to full blown panic + anxiety attacks (both.. at once... it pretty much turns me into an animal...) when I had a job that was so bad that I started having an anxiety disorder based solely around how stressed that job made me. When I quit the job, all the other anxiety problems went away... but it attached itself directly to the one place in my life where I felt real anxiety, the dentist. And it is a very *legitimate* anxiety that touches all areas of my emotional/physical life... and it turned my very average hate of dentists into something... new. That happened when I was about 24/25.
But the last 10 years of practicing sedation dentistry for major work, valium+nitrous for general work, and breathing techniques for minor work has helped give my body the comfort it needs to know that the dentist isn't always a torture chamber, it just FEELS like it.
Also being able to afford my dental work (even though it's a real stretch and takes creative planning to do so) has helped as well.
Full sedation is very strange... after waking up, my body spends a good day or two "processing" the pain it endured but couldn't process/feel at the time. One thing I appreciate about my brain/body connection is I can **feel** my brain. What I mean is.. I can **feel** my brain physically... when it is processing. Learning, thinking deeply, feeling deeply, searching/looking, etc.. they are actual sensations I can track and differentiate in my physical body. Apparently... that's not common (in the Western world... although common in the Eastern world) and I appreciate that my brain tells me what it's doing and isn't all Black Box about itself.
I'd be interested to learn what you feel the book teaches.
I was very interested when my horrible horrible horrible dental experiences went from having generalized anxiety/fear/apprehension before/during appointments... to full blown panic + anxiety attacks (both.. at once... it pretty much turns me into an animal...) when I had a job that was so bad that I started having an anxiety disorder based solely around how stressed that job made me.
When I quit the job, all the other anxiety problems went away... but it attached itself directly to the one place in my life where I felt real anxiety, the dentist. And it is a very *legitimate* anxiety that touches all areas of my emotional/physical life... and it turned my very average hate of dentists into something... new.
That happened when I was about 24/25.
But the last 10 years of practicing sedation dentistry for major work, valium+nitrous for general work, and breathing techniques for minor work has helped give my body the comfort it needs to know that the dentist isn't always a torture chamber, it just FEELS like it.
Also being able to afford my dental work (even though it's a real stretch and takes creative planning to do so) has helped as well.
Full sedation is very strange... after waking up, my body spends a good day or two "processing" the pain it endured but couldn't process/feel at the time. One thing I appreciate about my brain/body connection is I can **feel** my brain. What I mean is.. I can **feel** my brain physically... when it is processing. Learning, thinking deeply, feeling deeply, searching/looking, etc.. they are actual sensations I can track and differentiate in my physical body. Apparently... that's not common (in the Western world... although common in the Eastern world) and I appreciate that my brain tells me what it's doing and isn't all Black Box about itself.
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