The first truth I discovered is that we are what we think about all day long. I tell my friends and sponsees that our mind is like a flashlight. Wherever you point the beam, whatever you choose to focus on determines your thoughts and your feelings. If you hold anger or fear in your minds light, you will experience all the feelings and consequences of that choice. Your blood pressure will go up, your heart rate will increase, you will feel stressed, anxious and you will feel out of control. This is a fact. It is also a choice.
I realize that it is difficult to change life long habits of acting and reacting to life's events, especially when most of our role models, our media, and our entertainment show such responses as normal and acceptable. Still, I wanted to recover and so I had to decide which was more important, living up to the expectations of others or changing my entire lifestyle and the ways in which I respond to life. It wasn't easy, and still isn't, but I do it because it is working...for me.
The second truth that I discovered, (and again, this is only my truth) is that the body is not the controller of the mind and the emotions, but rather it is the other way around. If I choose to focus in my fear, my body will produce those fear responses that I described earlier. If I choose to focus in what I don't have or in my frustrations, my body will produce depressive responses. My body
