Good morning. Quite by accident actually. I was looking for a medication with minimal side effects when I came across your techniques because I often took antidepressants but found they made me drowsy and gave me nightmares. I was interested by the explanation of how medications work by masking the symptoms.

 

Honestly, I didn't really. You see I’d struggled with depression for many years and tried anything and everything I could get my hands on. I’d spend quite a bit of money on therapists, medications, herbal concoctions, acupuncture… you name it, I tried it and they all gave me pretty much the same result - short lived hope then disappointment. Every time I thought I would get help it failed, so I didn't have any great expectations that this would work either.

 

Out of desperation. I didn't really expect it to work but it was a completely different approach to anything I’d tried before, so I figured that I had nothing to lose.

 

Wow, it was truly eye opening. I couldn't believe how much better I felt when I just understood what's really happening in my mind. I mean I had no idea that my mind was applying any kind of structure to its thought process. But when you think about it, it actually makes perfect sense. I think it’s phrased in the book “How can you expect to win the game when you don't know the rules?” - so true.

 

Right away, I was really surprised that even after the first few chapters I started to feel a sense of relief. It was like a light turned on after so many years of darkness and I was suddenly seeing things clearly. I was learning about the root causes of how and why stress overtakes the mind, which was something that nobody else had explained to me before. Not even my therapist.

 

Yes, very easy. It only takes around 20 minutes a day but once I saw how it was releasing me I started doing it morning and night to speed up the process.

 

No actually I haven't played them for ages. Once you learn the techniques, then your brain just does it when you need it, without a conscious thought. Now whenever I run into problems, I just go about resolving them without all the stressing over it like I used to.

 

Emotionally reborn. If you told me when I was depressed that I would feel like this today I would have laughed at you and thought to myself - that's impossible, you haven't a clue what I'm going through. I can’t explain it, I feel like a different person.