Image streaming has been explained by many feature people as the problem solving through dreams. For many it was the breakthrough many had been seeking for and to improving memory.

History is full similar stories where answers came to people through dreams. This is an excellent way to find solutions to problems because the right brain is involved the problem solving process and holding potential amounts of brain power.

When we are awake the right brain often cuts out solution finding because the left brain edits what comes from the right brain, making it more logical and often suppressing the answers. This is why problem solutions often come when we are asleep and the right brain is not being edited by the left brain.

The problem here is that one cannot control dreams.We cannot decide in advance what we are going to dream about and most of the time we do not remember our dreams

The solution, is to use a process called image streaming, which creates a dream like state while you are awake. Image streaming is used to tap into your subconscious mind while you are awake and in this way sole your problems and enhance your creativity and brain power.

How to Image stream.
1. You must describe the images a loud, either to someone or into a tape recorder. Describing them silently will make you sleepy.
2. You must use all five senses in your descriptions. If you see a snow-covered mountain, for example, do not just describe how it looks. Describe its texture, its smell and the sound of the wind howling across its peak
3. Phrase all your descriptions in the present tense. This helps to create a feedback loop that strengthens your image streaming process. As you experience something you describe it, you here this description and it goes back into your brain creating a loop that reinforces the process.

Using this technique with practice will improve you memory and brain power which ultimately will help with your problem solving.

Medication

Many persons tend to use medication as a means of an obsessive compulsive disorder treatment, under the supervision and guidance of a medical practitioner. In most cases, persons are normally prescribed with Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRI’s) like Luvox and Prozac. This is because individuals with this condition tend to have low levels of serotonin in their brain, which is thought to be one of the contributing factors to their illness. As a result, these medications work to reduce the individual’s anxiety and improve their mood by increasing the brain’s serotonin level. This method however, does have side effects, and will not completely remove your symptoms; instead, it will only result in approximately 30 – 50% reduction of your symptoms. It is therefore normally recommended that therapy also be taking along with these medications.

Psychotherapy

Psychotherapy is a very effective means of obsessive compulsive disorder treatment. The process is normally carried out in a one on one session with a specialist trained in the particular area, but can also be done in a group setting. The most effective type of psychotherapy is cognitive behavioral therapy; this method aims at changing the way the individual thinks by modifying their behavior. In this method, the patient is exposed gradually to that which causes their obsession or fear, but is however forbidden from engaging in the habitual behavior. As the patient is continually exposed and sees that nothing bad results, they become less and less anxious. This method has a 50-80% success rate.

Self help programs

Self help programs are another option for obsessive compulsive disorder treatment which has proven to be very effective. The best thing about these programs, and probably the main reason for their success is that most of them were developed by persons who themselves have overcome the condition and so have the experience and knowledge to help someone else. These programs are designed to teach persons with the condition to change the way they think, and deal with their symptoms in a very direct but safe way. There have also been sanctioned by experts in the field as being very reliable and effective programs.

I feel bad for patients in this situation, because they would be better off had they never gone to a doctor for their anxiety in the first place. But the situation in my new patient was even worse– and what had happened to her was not uncommon. As her ‘anxiety’ worsened, the psychiatrist treating her piled on more and more medications. She was prescribed Depakote without relief. Then whe was prescribed risperidone. Then lamotrigine. These medications are all somewhat sedating, and when she complained of being too drowsy she was prescribed the stimulant Adderall, and then modafanil. The stimulants made her shaky, and so the original benzo was increased.

Medications like Depakote generic price, lamotrigine, and risperidone have a place in psychiatry; all three are mood stabilizers, and are used to treat bipolar disorder among a few other conditions. In order to qualify for a diagnosis of bipolar I (the more serious form of bipolar disorder) a person must have a history of ‘mania’– a period of 7 days (shorter if the person is hospitalized) when the person is ‘revved up,’ with less need for sleep, increased risk-taking, racing thoughts, and other specific criteria. There is some credible evidence that the diagnosis of bipolar has been overdone in recent years, particularly in children. Over-diagnosis of depression would not be a horrible thing, given that the medications primarily used to treat depression, a class of medication called ‘SSRIs’, are relatively benign. But the same cannot be said of over-diagnosis of bipolar disorder; medications used to treat bipolar have a number of significant side effects ranging from sedation and tremor to weight gain and diabetes!

When I asked the patient about her diagnosis, she was confused. She was not told that she had bipolar disorder, and so she was not certain why she was taking so many medications. She had no idea that some of the medications were prescribed only to treat side effects from other medications. And she had no idea that the medications had the potential to cause a wide range of systemic illnesses and conditions.

I don’t know what to make of THAT kind of psychiatry. I talk often on my radio show about the need for patients and psychiatrists to spend TIME with each other; time to get the diagnosis right, or in this case to at least come to SOME diagnosis! Too often, medications seem to be prescribed out of desperation; an overly-busy, short-on-time prescriber adding medication not according to a sound treatment plan for a careful diagnosis, but rather using medications to blunt symptoms like firefighters in a helicopter dropping water on a fire.

Not all psychiatric conditions require medications, but sometimes, medications are useful and even necessary. When medications ARE used, I encourage all patients to demand to know the diagnosis that is being treated, the options in medication and non-medication treatments, and the effects and side effects of anything that is prescribed. That understanding will probably take some time– but that time should be a basic part of every psychiatric relationship.

I can assure you that if you are looking for a stress management activity the Dynamic Meditation is fantastic as a great cleanser to start with and once you have done it several times, you can then appreciate the ‘meditation’ aspect of this method.

So, going back to my meeting with the Dynamic Meditation…
After having made it clear in my mind that I needed an active method, just a few weeks later in Arundel, South of England, I met someone who handed me a small leaflet regarding a centre in London where Dynamic Meditation was happening.

The most astonishing thing was that I had not even mentioned this to him!

Anyhow, a few weeks later, I turned up at the centre at the earliest of times in the morning when it was scheduled. There was a roomful of people – well, how shall I say, letting go of their frustrations and emotions, expressing these in body movements and sounds (thankfully, not towards each other!). The intensity was quite amazing and the first time, amazed and impressed by what was going on around me, I just took it all in, not being able to follow the instructions.

In fact, one was advised to wear an eye mask in order to stay in touch with oneself and not be too surprised or influenced by the behaviour of other people.

But of course I did come back several times after that.

First, I learned to breathe just through the nose, expelling the air vigorously and letting the inhaling happen by itself, all done with no particular rhythm, but as ‘chaotically’ as possible! This lasted 10 minutes and the point was to reach part of our breathing mechanism that our day-to-day living does not allow us to reach, which stimulates our repressed emotions to come to the surface, to become conscious.

The second phase, also lasting 10 minutes, was about expressing those emotions, those repressions, to free us, the body and the psyche, from our conditioned behaviour, from fear, anger etc., which, hidden inside, can easily unconsciously control us from within.

Great stress management is this dynamic meditation! To be able to express whatever one has bottled up!

The third 10 minutes stage was to have our arms raised above our heads while jumping up and down, shouting the sound ‘hoo’, falling back on the soles of our feet, to help us reach the most profound centre of our energy, the sexual centre. The idea being to tap into that energy reservoir and enable it to rise and spread all over the body, creating a sense of enhanced vitality and well-being, even ‘bliss’ (especially in the next, ‘silent’ stage).

The fourth part was just standing still for 15 minutes in the position that the stopping of the music found us in.
This is the ‘watching’ part of this method, the most ‘meditative’ as we would call it, although in time one is advised to develop the ‘watcher’ in the previous phases as well.

A great stress management activity, I can assure you, this dynamic meditation! Not only to be able to express whatever one has bottled up, BUT also recycling it afterwards into finer energy!

When you are diagnosed with ADHD, you should take it as a great wake up call. When you find out that you have ADHD it is about time that you seek help and not neglect the effects of ADHD in you. The earlier you start the treatment for the symptoms of ADHD, the better. If you are able to seek help and educate yourself about your condition, you will be able to find ways in managing ADHD successfully.

It takes a lot of work to be able to become successful in managing ADHD. You have to keep in mind that it takes a lot of hard work, persistence, and time in being able to find the right treatments that you could use of. Managing ADHD would not be that hard though as long as you bear in mind that you need to educate yourself about ADHD as much as you can, adopt healthy lifestyle habits, and get plenty of support. You also have to have a positive outlook and life and believe that:

1. ADHD is a condition that is certainly treatable. Though you already know that ADHD does not have a known cure, you must not lose hope. A lot of researches have been done to come up with the proper treatment which could help people who are suffering from ADHD.

2. It is definitely you responsibility to have yourself treated. If you really want to conquer the challenges you are facing, the answer is all up to you. Everything is possible as long as you have the will and the determination to make your life better through successfully managing ADHD symptoms. It is true that there are health professionals whom you can seek help from but administering treatment still is all up to you.

3. The key to successfully managing ADHD is through educating yourself with as much information about ADHD as possible. If you educate yourself well, you will be able to understand what you are going through as well as what you need to do in controlling and managing ADHD symptoms and dealing with the condition as a whole. You will be able to know your strengths and weaknesses and learn how you can use them in becoming successful later in life.

4. Getting support is still one of the best forms of inspiration and motivation. People who support you will help you get through and be more positive about life.

When we become aware of our discomfort about asking for what we want, it would be useful to reflect on our relationship to wanting and needing. We might discover that we have needs (sometimes hardly in awareness), but we don’t allow ourselves to think about them. We might also discover that we provide most things for ourselves because we get uncomfortable with the idea of asking others to fulfill some of our needs. We may learn that we are not allowing ourselves to feel what we want in order to protect ourselves from uncomfortable feelings. In all cases, when we don’t attend to our needs, we may be limiting the emotional satisfaction we could be enjoying from our interpersonal relationships.

Sheila is a person who has difficulties with wanting and needing. She proudly told me that when she was kid she never wanted anything in particular for Christmas or her birthday. If she got a gift, that was okay. If she didn’t it was no big deal. Today, Sheila is no longer a child. She is a successful executive in a public relations firm. She is well thought of by her colleagues and is well compensated. But Sheila is an unhappy 41 year old woman with few friends. She has a close attachment to her elderly parents who are very admiring of Sheila’s competence, success and self reliance. Sheila also feels good about these attributes. She shared how her parents always talk about what a good, compliant baby she was. With pride, she tells the family story of how quickly she learned at the age of 3 to stop crying in the mornings when her parents didn’t want to get up. She learned to get her own breakfast and let her parents sleep as late as they wished. Sheila’s experience in the world is that she wants for nothing. Yet, at the same time, Sheila finds life to be unsatisfying.

I thought about Sheila when I was considering the relationship between Individuation and wanting. To be comfortable with wanting means to be comfortable with having needs. Our attitudes about our needs develop in childhood. Usually children make demands on their parents which parents respond to in a variety of ways. If we think of responses on a continuum, parents can always, sometimes, never, give a child what the child wants. So first, the child learns, in a general sense, whether or not they can expect their needs to be responded to. But whether a need is met is not the only thing the child is reacting to. More subtly, parents convey their attitudes about the child having needs and about what those needs are. For example, parents may respond but feel annoyed by the demand. They may respond in an unpredictable manner, confusing and often frustrating the child. They may respond positively only to needs they approve of, making the child’s separate desires unacceptable. They may always respond positively making it difficult for the child to develop a sense of limitations. If we always get what we want, we don’t have the opportunity to learn what is appropriate or how to deal with frustration. We may also come to feel out of control or greedy. The point is, the way parents respond has a serious effect on the way children come to think about their own needs.

In therapy, Sheila and I explore her thoughts and feelings about wanting. It becomes clear that Sheila is proud of her self sufficiency and her lack of want. At the same time, she is aware that the idea of wanting or needing is unacceptable to her. She associates wanting with the risk that someone else might be necessary to provide what she needs. She has a vague memory of how angry her parents got when she woke them early in the morning and how they talked so much about what a good little girl she was and so smart to get her own breakfast. Sheila believes that it would be risky to become dependent on someone to respond to her desires. She worries that there would be a price to pay. Needing could have some negative impact: someone could be angry or upset with what she asked for. She fears that she would have to give up being in charge of her life and would have to give in to the influence of anyone she came to rely on. As Sheila became more conscious of these beliefs, she began to consider that the lack of close relationships in her life, which she both longed for and dreaded, was connected to worries about the strings attached to having someone else meet your needs.

The process of Individuation allows us to develop into people who are more or less comfortable with who we are and what we want. It also allows us to tolerate and get comfortable with the wide variety of positive and negative feelings we encounter as we put ourselves out into the world. The more we can get comfortable with asking for what we want, the more likely we are to have the kinds of relationships we desire. This means that we have to be willing to be comfortable with the negative responses that are always possible when we ask for something. It is usually helpful to understand that a “no” to our asking for something we want or need does not have to be experienced as a personal rejection of who we are. It is simply a “no” to a request. The more we can tolerate the “no’s”, the more we will be in a position to ask and hear “yes”.

This was certainly my problem. Instead of pacing myself sensibly, I allowed the business to run me. Everything had to be done yesterday, at breakneck speed, otherwise…what? The sky would fall? The earth would open up and swallow me?

That’s the whole point. You must learn to control your life, not the other way round. This is where goal setting is such a two edged sword. You can have it fixed in your mind that you must write five articles in a day, every day. That’s your goal, and you’re going to stick to it. This is very laudable, but what’s going to happen if you don’t write five a day? If you only write four one day.

Well, you’ll just have to write six the following day. This can become so fixed in your mind, that everything else goes by the way.

I read somewhere about this chap who was determined to write a certain number of articles over a six month period, (actually, I forget how long, but it was something like that). Anyway, his goal was a huge number, but he set to and managed to write them… then promptly had a nervous breakdown!

No, goals are fine, but they must be reasonable and flexible. And they must allow you enough time for relaxation. Let’s put it this way. If you have a number of problems that have brought you to the edge of a nervous breakdown, what’s going to happen to those problems when the breakdown hits? They’ll have to be shelved until you’re better.

If this means that people are going to become upset with you, even angry, that’s too bad. Your health is all that matters. Besides, you’re in no condition now, virtually, to know what pair of socks you’ll wear this morning, let alone how to sort out a large, looming problem. You’re sick, and if people don’t like it, they’ll just have to learn to live with it.

One of the main symptoms of a nervous breakdown is the feeling of being swamped, either by direct problems or by a mass of work you think you have to do immediately. Make a decision. That decision will be that nothing at all will be done or even attempted until you feel better.

Eat properly and nutritiously, exercise, even if it’s only going for short walks, go to the library and grab some good fiction by authors you like, watch television, listen to relaxing CDs, anything at all that takes your mind completely off work. Don’t even allow that four letter word into your Universe!

Lets take a look at a couple of the options available right now. First off we have medication. Now while you should always seek the advice of your doctor first I don’t believe that medication is the way to go even though they may suggest it as the best route. Medicines aren’t particularly selective when it comes to emotions. We don’t yet fully understand how emotions are created and interact within the brain. Medicines often go under-tested before being released. Therefore the common way a medicine works is like using a tank to smash a block of butter, it gets the job done but it’s overpowered and can often cause damage elsewhere due to factors that weren’t understood or taken into account.

Other obsessive compulsive treatment can be found in the various techniques of the self help industry. I think that most of these are actually a lot better than medicine because the side effects and damage that you might see from medicine you don’t see from these techniques. For the most part if these techniques don’t work nothing changes. The draw backs for these techniques then is that too often they require constant repetition day after day to get them to take hold. They can take more time to get to work than you are saved by not suffering from OCD, which for some people is a huge amount of time. Another problem with them is that a lot of them try to overpower the symptoms you are suffering, they don’t really work on the real underlying issue.

OCD is caused by an over attachment in the primal brain to emotions like fear and anxiety. These emotions are all movement initiators and have nothing to do with thought. This is why people with OCD will do things over and over again, it’s because they can’t actually connect to the part of their brain that thinks “the oven is switched off, next task” or “the door is locked” etc. It’s a constant movement issue.

If you are looking for an effective obsessive compulsive treatment the essence of what you need is a technique that focuses on balancing out the movement part of the brain with the thinking part of the brain. A balance is what most people have in most areas of their life, and indeed even people with OCD aren’t obsessive compulsive about everything, so there is balance there. Once a balance is re-achieved (people aren’t born with OCD it is generated at some point in their lives through an experience with a high emotional attachment) the OCD will naturally disappear, and in more cases than not it will disappear in all the places they experience it. If you achieve proper balance you won’t ever need to repeat the process again and you can go on with your life.

Steve Hyde was a long time sufferer of both OCD and social anxiety. He has tried many techniques to rid himself of both these afflictions. Upon discovering a technique several years ago that completely eliminated both his OCD and social anxiety he has dedicated himself to helping people achieve at least the same levels of change in their own lives. He now runs a one-to-one coaching business helping people who are as dedicated to achieving the life of their dreams as he is.

Imagine getting the same reaction when a 40 foot beast is going to eat you and not being able to decide what to wear in the morning? It’s the same old song and dance every time you start to over think something next thing you know it is blown up into something that isn’t even real, now you lost out on your day because the small clothes dilemma was blown up into a 40 foot beast I know I have been there.

When I was younger panic was very prevalent inside of me. I could take the simplest of things and blow them up into huge monsters. It affected my life, my friends and my family it was terrible. I had a good friend that taught me the hard way to get rid of anxiety. I was pretty lucky to have him I had pretty much disassociated with all my other friends I was quite surprised that he stuck around, when you have anxiety it is very easy to push people away.

Well after 3 years of him pushing my buttons to the limit and a whole lot of broken patterns later I am finally free from that prison nothing fazes me now it is pretty cool I feel like a million bucks I can believe it. I honestly never thought i would ever be rid of that.

Panic away helps you break patters and move on with your life. My advice to anybody suffering from panic attacks defiantly needs to address the situation head on. It isn’t worth losing your life over. I lost a good 10 years of my life suffering from this and I had to endure pure hell to get rid of it, Panic Away will help you in way less time and show you an easier way.

If you want my friend to come over to your house it will cost you, he is a registered therapist that enjoys inflicting as much pain on his patients as humanly possible pushing and poking every little detail until you have only one option break the pattern or curl up in a little ball and beg for a quick death. It was the hardest thing I ever had to endure I spent many days and nights curled up in that ball when I finally couldn’t take it anymore he was going to get punched in the face. It was like a light bulb flashed in my head and everything became clear. He got a big smile on his face and congratulated me for breaking my patterns I was shocked I thought we were going to be slugging it out.

It’s the 21st century I don’t need to go out and kill any 40 foot beasts I only have to go to the McDonald’s Drive Thru, and I hunt at the local food store, my wild beasts are pre packaged for me. If I lost everything today it wouldn’t matter because it’s just stuff. Life really is that simple folks.

Panic away has a lot of great material and i agree with their methods read it and push yourself to the edge and over the cliff before you know it you will be jumping off the cliff with a big smile on your face. Good Luck.