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Three main pitfalls can lead into nervous illnes. They are sensitization, bewilderment, and fear.
Sensitization is a state in which our nerves react in an exaggerated way to stress.
So much nervous illness is no more than severe sensitization kept alive by bewilderment and fear.
Present sensitization remains to be cured, whatever the original cause. The sensitized person is concerned with the state he is in now, not with what may possibly have caused it a long time ago.
"The great majority of my nervously ill patients have been made ill and kept ill because of the way they feel; because of fear of what they think may happen next."
If fear of palpitations has not drawn this person into this type of illness, fear of some other upsetting bodily sensation generally has.
"Naturally, fighting means more tension, tension more adrenalina and further stimulation of the adrenalin-releasing nerves, and so the continuation of symptoms."



he spent his time:

Running away, not FACING;
Fighting, not ACCEPTING;
Arresting and "listening in", not FLOATING past;
Being impatient with time, not LETTING TIME PASS.



Churning Stomach

Begin with the nervous feeling in your stomach, the so-called churning. This may feel like an uneasy fluttering or may bore steadily like a hot poker passing from your stomach to your back. Do not tensely flinch from it.Go with it. Relax and analyze it. Take a few minutes to do this before reading on.
Now that you have faced and examined it, is it so terrible? If you had arthritis in your wrist, you would be prepared to work with the arthritic pain without becoming too upset. Why regard this churning as something so different from ordinary pain that it can frighten you? Stop regarding it as some monster trying to possess you. Understand that it is but the working of oversensitized adrenalin-releasing nerves and that by constantly shrinking from it you have stimulated an excessive outflow of adrenalin that has further excited your nerves to produce continual churning. By your anxiety you are producing the very feelings you dislike so much.



Just As a Broken Leg Takes Time To Heal

So, be prepared to accept and live with it for the time being. Accept it as something that will be with you for some time yet, in fact while you recover, but something that will eventually leave you if you are prepared to let time pass and not anxiously watch the churning during its passing.