Well, its been a weird year and I thought I would end it with a weekend of reading ‘self help’ books. I was given one recommendation at my visit to the Mental Health Team and the rest I had on either my Amazon wish list or I just happened to pick them up the library when I was there… The first one (the smallest) I read most of while The Bull was taking his Grade 7 Piano Exam this morning. This was one I just picked off the shelf at the library. It was Notes From A Friend by Anthony Robbins. One of the quotes he gave was: Beliefs are like tables. We can develop them about anything if we just find enough legs to support them.
Another one I picked off the shelf was (Help Yourself) Release Your Stress by Susan Balfour. What was good about this book was that she gave a biological explanation of rapid and shallow breathing; which I felt helped me to really understand my feelings of panic. Comments such as; It is a physiological fact that you cannot feel anxious and breathe calmly at the same time, so learning to breathe correctly gives you the key for controlling your emotional responses.
I also liked this comment made by Anne Jones in The Ripple Effect: A Guide to Creating Your Personal Spirituality; Most of our anxieties come from worrying about what is going to happen. Deliberately stop from time to time in your day and think about what is happening to you at the present moment. Enjoy the moment and think about now, not the past or the future.
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