Is this program only for people with $ or caretakers?

[Squilly]

I am very frustrated.

I am trying to do this program, but am unable to devote the time to do so. Ashok suggests taking 6 months to fully commit to the program, not working, etc. 1/2 the day doing relaxing things. I can't do this.

I am single. No family to help me financially. I have been on disability for several years. I don't make enough money to live on. Even working part time I don't have enough money to pay for housing. Have been on the waiting list for Section 8 Housing for 10 years. I am moving from one friend's house to another to another. This is stressful and I know it does not help me with the program.

I'm having a really hard day today. Feeling hopeless.

Do people who can't take 6 months off of work actually get better?

I wish I had a life that I can commit 100% to getting better, but can't.

[JR]

Sorry you're having a hard time right now, Squilly. You don't have to do all of the program all of the time for it to work. I was too weak to do more than a little bit of it at first, and it still helped. How long have you been doing the program? I know it's hard, but try not to let the stress of "I can't do it all the way I should" get to you. You have to take care of yourself in other parts of your life, and if that means working part time, that's what you have to do. With the Gupta program, try to just do what you can and let it go. Hang in there!

[niaholt]

Squilly,
I really feel for you today. Please dont think that you are not doing enough....enough is what you can manage. Just give it the best you can when you can or you wil stress out too much. I am not working and it is still taking time for me to get there and I get frustrated too. Dont put the 6mths tag in your head...just keep on keeping on till it is a way of life and check your breathing. I have seen a guy on this post working and travelling with his job full time and doing well early on in the program.

[Alienor]

Squilly,

Please don’t give up and yes, people who can't take 6 months off of work do actually get better! I’m an example: I work full time (or at least pretend to do so ). I also would have liked to take 6 months off but there is no way that I can do that. My husband is unemployed and I’m 52. If I quit this job I probably won’t find another one anymore.

It’s like JR said: You don't have to do all of the program all of the time for it to work. I’m doing mainly only the STOP technique (and even not all the time when I have negative thoughts because I forget it sometimes).

Next week I will reach my 6 months mark and I have improved a lot during this time. I went from like 20% to now around 60-70%. Sure, this is still far away from 100% but with the little training I do this is an amazing success.

What helped me a lot was to realize that I REALLY do have an Amygdala problem. In the beginning of the training I thought, well, that’s a nice theory but I wasn’t sure if this was really MY problem. During the last 6 months, however, I came in a few situations where I really could make such a difference with the ART that I now have no doubt anymore.

Hang in there and just do as much as you can – you will get better, too.

Alienor

[fox]

Hi Alienor,
have you also worked fulltime when you were completely sick?

[Alienor]

Yes, I always worked full time. But you have to know that I have very little to do and I'm sitting in a single office and no one in my company really knows what I'm doing, or - should I say - not doing. For years, I was sitting more dead than alive on my desk - pretending that I'm working. Which is very hard, too, believe me.

If I had a demanding job I could never have done it.

Alienor

[Squilly]

Thank you everyone for your replies to my post. I appreciate your support. After I posted, I did the meditation and felt better. And luckily today is a new day.
@niaholt: you say "check your breathing." What do you mean by that? Is this something other than the "soften and flow" and "Meditation?"
@JR: I first started the program in January of this year. Started to feel better for a bit and then started feeling worse and slacked off. I have recommitted myself to the program this week.

[niaholt]

Hi Squilly,
Most of us breathe in the upper chest, not lower down in our diaphragm. Check how many breaths you take a minute. Should be no more then 11. We can have "hidden hyperventilation" I was doing all Ashoks techniques but when I got up and about I was breathing with my belly pulled in ...kind of panting...even holding my breath. I have corected it with breathing techniques like Buteyko and now do Pranyama breathing plus Ashoks. Correcting this breathing helps calm the brain and addresses the correct carbon dioxide/ oxygen balance. Good luck.

[Squilly]

Ah, okay. Luckily I picked up some good breathing techniques in speech and voice classes. Now I am using Andrew Weil's "Breathing, The Master Key To Self Healing."