10-15-2018, 10:54 AM
(10-15-2018, 10:46 AM)Shannon Wrote: [ -> ](10-15-2018, 09:11 AM)Broski Wrote: [ -> ]After 4 days of US/LM2-
Saturday started out like any other days over the past few months for me; With obsessive worrying and anxiety about different things. Later in the afternoon I went over to a friends to hang out for the day. Soon thereafter, I was no longer focused on my struggles/issues as of late. I was feeling more in the moment, relaxed , and expressive. Just able to have a good time and laugh it up with my buds. Probably the best and most free ive felt in a good while.
The next day(sunday) that same state was no longer in full force, but I still was not experiencing quite as much anxiety or the focusing on what has been causing me strife. Fast forward to the right as I am going to bed however, and the fear started picking back up. As I was getting ready/ going to bed I started getting flashes of this kind of ghoul like creature coming after me as I started to sleep. I did my best to not focus on it, but it kept popping up for a good while. As a kid I was always scared of horror movies and different creepy/ ghostly things and would sometimes get thoughts like these.
Then into my later years with this issue I developed that i detailed in here a few weeks to a month ago(basically the fear of fear itself, sorry Teddy Roosevelt, I failed you) when I get anything negative like this in my mind I then get fearful that I am focusing on it and will bring more of it/bad things/ anxiety and fear into my life. Basically using the law of attraction against myself lol. Its been quite the fd up vicious cycle. I have been doing my best to overcome this however, and will NOT give up or give in.
So anyway, I eventually managed to fall asleep. Halfway through the night though I had a VERY intense dream. In it I had woken up in my bed during the night, and was just laying there thinking it was real. Suddenly I started hearing these dissent whispers coming from around me somewhere. Then all of a sudden my body started getting pulled from my bed towards the wall to the right of me. I tried to brace myself on my fan and stop from getting pulled, but I could not. As this was happening the whispers were increasing in quantity and intensity. I couldn't stop the force and was pulled straight into the wall. I began yelling in terror and at that moment woke up with a slight "ah" sound coming out of my mouth.
Now as opposed to my dream after my first day on the program where I only felt slight fear, in this one the fear was VERY intense. Maybe its just things coming up from the FRM getting to the core of my fears?
If you have any thoughts on all of it Shannon I would love to hear them.
Are you noticing the tidal effect? You make progress, which scares some part of you, which is abated as you make more progress, which scares some part of you, which is abated as you make more progress... but each time, things advance further.
What's happening is that you're making progress overcoming your fears.
This is not quite how I wanted it to happen, though. I will be creating a V3 of the FRM for DMSI 3.3 to try to make this process significantly easier. In fact I have already started working on that.
That said... you have a fear based feedback loop. You fear what you fear, and you fear the fear, and the process of being afraid and everything else. The fear feeds itself.
But the FRM should disrupt this and erase it over enough exposure. Keep going.
That tidal effect is EXACTLY what it seems like since starting US/LN2 in a way. Some relief and progress, then kicked back to anxiety mode, then back to some relief and progress, then back to anxiety ect. It seems like overall though I am heading in the right direction as you said. I will keep pushing forward. Ready to stomp this mofm fear out!