Well, here is an article I received from the man himself, Charles Linden the Founder of The Linden's Method explaining everything in details.
"You, like I was once, are probably experience a vast, frustrating and constantly changing group of bodily sensations, call them symptoms if you like. You may also be experiencing unusual thoughts; these could be confusing, aggressive, sexual or just plain scary.
You may attach some of these thoughts and sensations to people or places, imagining doing things to people or yourself that, under normal circumstances, you would definitely never do.
You may have thoughts that make you feel like you are becoming mentally ill, psychotic or delusional in some way, or maybe you have sexual thoughts about other people, young or old... inappropriate thoughts that revolt you.
Maybe you have obsessive thoughts swimming around inside your head; these may or may not cause you to feel compelled to carry out rituals (OCD).
Maybe you believe that your thoughts cause symptoms... maybe you think your symptoms cause thoughts... maybe you just feel confused and frustrated that no one seems to have come up with a theory about what you are going through that is credible or believable.
At the start of this article, I said "...call them symptoms if you like" when I referred to your sensations and thoughts. Why did I say this? Please understand this fully.
Symptoms are the bodily reactions that occur as a result of illness.
Is laughing a symptom of happiness? No
Is crying a symptom of sadness? No
Is blushing a symptom of embarrassment? NoIs pain a symptom of injury? Yes
Is soreness a symptom of infection? Yes
Do you see the difference? OK, 'symptom' is just a word but its use when describing the sensations and thoughts of high anxiety is wrong! High anxiety is a physical response.
This may shock you, but in the late 1800s psychologists by the name of William James and Carl Lange, the fathers of modern psychology, arrived at a conclusion about emotion, and more specifically about those emotions which also display physical manifestations.
Happiness = laughing, sadness = crying.
But - and here is the big 'but' - what comes first... the emotional response or the symptoms?Most people will say - "The emotion comes first always... then, the sensations (or symptoms) follow"
OK, you'd be justified to believe this, however, over the last 12 years of helping anxiety sufferers and recently through introduction to William James and Carl Lange (the two fathers of modern emotional psychology) through the Head of Psychology at a very well respected university, with whom I am currently working, I have discovered that my findings agree entirely with those of these two very eminent psychologists whose work forms the cornerstone of modern psychology.
THIS IS THE TRUTH ABOUT ANXIETY
The emotion of fear comes after the physical response.
I discovered a long time ago that when we encounter a threat in our environment, and the presence of that threat is fed back to the anxiety control center of the brain via our sensory organs, the physical reaction comes first; all of the physical reactions and thoughts, all caused by the release of hormones into the blood stream, which are the catalysts for preparatory changes in your body (circulation, digestion, respiration, etc.) precede how you think about the situation.
Yes - the symptoms come first, the 'thoughts' follow!
Let's create a check list to prove this. This isn't a complete list of symptoms but it suffices for this experiment. Say you have a moment of high anxiety (or panic)... you experience:
Now, what I want you to do is imagine that you have the ability to go down this list of symptoms and in turn, cross them out But, at the same time, you erase them from your body completely. One by one, you stop those sensations (or symptoms) until they are all gone. Now, what are you left with? If you could erase all of these physical manifestations, would you be left with fear?
No!
Fear is the thought or notion that is created by your perception of the presence of the above physical manifestations. All of the above physical manifestations aren't the product of fear - they're the product of a release of hormones.
Do you see where I am going with this? The point is that your whole anxiety condition is built on a foundation of hormone release caused by a 'false reading' of your environment - nothing more.
Lange and James concluded that emotion, any emotion, is the manifestation of our interaction with our environment... a conclusion I came to myself many moons ago and have since written and spoken about many hundreds of times in my books, TV series, programs, DVDs and CDs.
It is vital that you understand that because anxiety by its very nature is a reaction to your environment and not an 'emotional response'... more a safety precaution than an outburst of emotion... by changing your reaction to your environment, you can stop it from happening inappropriately completely.
My recent and very long conversations with the head of psychology, Dr Francis Teeney of Queen's University, Belfast, brought us to a very happy conclusion... he has studied The Linden Method extensively and concluded that my Method really is in line with the findings of Lange and James and that it is clear that by implementing the process I outline in my program, you will, indeed, change your reaction to your environment that causes and perpetuates your anxiety condition.
Finally a scientific, psychological and recognized reason why my method works 100% of the time and why the only reason for failure is not doing it.
Having cured over 130,000 people using my Method, with a success rate of 100% amongst complying clients, this reinforces my beliefs and gives credibility to the thousands of testimonials I receive every year from people who have been cured using The Linden Method.No other program uses this method. No other program has the success we experience. No other program is underwritten and supported by specialist anxiety psychologists."
Charles
Charles Linden
The Linden Centers International
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