It tends to be easier to take things for granted when they’re a constant part of our lives. How true this can be with spouses, friends, and family. As unfortunate as this is, it does happen. One activity that we all have shared since birth is breathing. Most of us have never given it any consideration.

If you observe a healthy newborn breathe, as they inhale the lower abdomen extends to fill the majority of the lungs from the bottom to the top. It is a deeper and longer breath. This is normal, healthy breathing.

However, very few of us adults breathe this way. As the matter of fact, most of us breathe with a shallow breath drawing air in only to the mid to upper lungs and only filling approximately one-fifth of their capacity.

Forget about what you just read and go to a large mirror. With your eyes starring directly at your shoulders, take a very deep breath. Did your shoulders move upward quickly? If you are like most of my clients, they did.

This type of breath is what is called a stressed breath. Have you ever noticed when you’ve been surprised by something how you’ll take a quick shallow upper lung breath and hold it? This is relaying information to the brain that you are stressed or anxious and begins the stress response in the body. The endocrine system - adrenals, thyroid, pancreas, pituitary, hypothalamus - is stepping up production of hormones to meet a perceived energy need. The fight or flight reflex is in full gear.

Normally, as the situation passes, the breathing should return to deep, calm abdominal breaths, and the stress response in the endocrine system deactivates.

However, this is not what I am seeing clinically. Because of chronic stress, anxiety ensues, and the breath pattern is reset to a more shallow and less effective state that constantly tells the body that it is in a stressed state. This breaks the body down prematurely, weakens the endocrine system, and leads to hormonal dysfunction.

This newly established breath pattern decreases the amount of oxygen in the body that can lead to anything from sleep problems and fatigue to immune system dysfunction and disease.

This shallow breath also makes it easier for us to suppress and repress feelings we don’t want to feel back into the subconscious. This will then create havoc on hormones, the body, our health, and our relationships.

If your breath pattern demonstrates this stressed pattern, don’t get discouraged, it can be retrained. Sit down in a firm chair at the same time each day for about 10 minutes. Place one hand palm side on your belly button and on each inhale, begin by expanding your lower lungs first by pushing out your hand. Your shoulders should barely move even with full inhalation. Breath out and contract your abdomen as your hand moves in.

Do this daily for as long as it takes to re-establish the proper, normal breathing pattern. It took me about three months to do this, so please be patient. You may begin to notice changes in your attitude, comfort, and overall health. Hang in there, you’re worth it.

Here is my assessment of the linden method. I have 1st hand experience of panic attack disorder as my wife has suffererd from it for many months.

To know what the linden method is, you first need to know what it is not.

The linden method does not require medication. the opposite, Linden does not see chemical imbalance as the major cause of panic attacks. Nor doe he see hormonal imbalance as the root problem.

Many people are turning to the linden method because medical solutions have had a mixed bag of success.On top of that the side effects associated with medication are quite staggering. I quickly understood why the medical solution is the least effective one and should only be used if all else fails.

Now, lets describe the Linden method?
The method is based on well known and proven CBT theories that are used on people with anxiety symptoms.

CBT sees the root issue is the sufferer’s response to his/her environment. They are used to to incorrect responses to certain stimuli in their environment. As a result the natural and harmless response of fear and anxiety has been repeatedly used in the wrong places.

CBT teaches the brain to react differently and hence uproots the cause of panic attacks.
Although CBT has been used a lot in different fields, it is especially successful when dealing with panic attacks disorders.

Charles Linden adapted this modal into the linden method and has had staggering results. the linden method has a 96% success rate (way better than any medical solution by many times), has worked equally well around the world and has cured over one hundred thousand people. The system is recommended by medical authorities from around the world and is therefore getting incresingly more popular.

canthe linden method work for everyone?

Chances are, yes it will. In fact based on the above statistics, you have a 96% chance of success. You do need to have a drive to succeed and you need to have an open mind to want it to work for you.

the thing that made this a no brainer for us was the risk free guarantee linden gives his system.
If it does not work for you, simply ask for a refund. With that in mind, the linden method is a no brainer.

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Fetishism is a psychological state in which a nonliving object becomes the primary source of sexual arousal (e.g. female undergarment). This type of deviation often begins during the adolescence and is not addressed by law. But sometimes, fetishists do tend to commit crimes to acquire their favourite fetishes.

Fetishism is one of the most puzzling of all forms of sexual behaviour. It is chronic and in some cases the collection of objects is the main activity in the individual’s life. Nobody has been able to explain why fetishism occurs but a range of theories varying from unconscious motivations to impaired neural mechanisms have put forward their thoughts, but the true causes still remains a mystery.

Treatments based on the learning principle have been applied successfully, up to an extent. For example, ‘Aversion Therapy’ pairs the fetishist’s object (either in reality or in fantasy) with an unpleasant stimulus (such as an electric shock, being discovered by a family member or vomiting for example) in which the discovery of fetishism causes an overwhelming embarrassment and pain.