Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #48389 in Books
• Published on: 1993-02-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 272 pages

Synopsis
Offers a simple program for overcoming the debilitating effects of anxiety.

Customer Reviews

100% accurate.
The info contained can't be out of date because it addresses the same issue as say The Linden Method does in virtually the same way BUT for a comparitively miniscule cost. Why spend hundreds just to be told the same advice as contained here?
Handly himself suffered badly and nearly came to suicide over it. Luckily he turned his whole life around in a fairly simple way.
The use of visualisations/affirmations spoken of by Robert Handly have been touched on by everyone from Buddha to Claire Weekes. Handly makes no pretense of having 'discovered' the method of reaching the subconscious but he does explain it far more thoroughly than most.
He is accurate in his assessment.The problem lies 100% with the subconscious which 'plays back old tapes' and alerts the limbic system at inappropriate times (basically the amygdala which is spoken of largely in the Linden Method). As Handly says, the propensity for irrational fear actually originates in the subconscious and lies there dormant until some trigger ignites it in our conscious world.(as we go about our daily business)
These dormant 'old tapes' have got to be erased and the amygdala re-set. Alpha re-programming is the best way but interestingly one aspect of what we know as cognitive behavioural therapy addresses it in the same way without actually explaining it like Handly does.
For example , imaginary visualisations, which are a POWERFUL tool to use, are also encouraged by EVERY phobia therapist today so HOW can this treament be out of date?. It takes awhile to learn and at first because our fear is ingrained and you do feel strange but stick with it. Medication, although helpful, suppresses the emotions to some extent. What is so 'out of date' about Handly's method? It's been used for decades with GREAT success by competitive sportsmen,public speakers,musicians, actors etc to conquer stage fright or promote ability & confidence. These ones have conquered & worked out the situation in their heads FIRST and then floated through the whole episode in situ.
Our own limbic system is ancient anyway and responds to the same tricks upon it and fools us in the same way time and again.
Learn Handly's method before you spend hundreds of dollars.

Help yourself
I got given this book by my uncle and its great, it tells you how to help youself in 5 simple easy steps, it helps you control your unconscious mind and get back to the normal happy life you deserve!!!

Out of date
Having battled first with panic attacks which developed into agoraphobia, I wouldn't recommend this book. Quite simply the techniques seem a little pseudo-scientific, not that psychology is an exact science, but you may as well buy a rabits foot and carry it everywhere you go. I have used meditation (which is probably the most effective thing I've found), if you try meditation, separate it from your panic i.e. do it regulary not just when anxious or you'll attach meditation to anxiety, you don't want that. I've had proffessional help form a CBT specialist, also very helpful. As for books there's one on amazon by christine ingham (I hope that's how it's spelt) which cuts all the rubbish and provides excellent UP TO DATE advice. I bought the book I'm reviewing now to make up the shipping price because it was so cheap, I honestly believe your money is best spent elsewhere. Professional help is best, but inghams book provides fact and pointers. If you are fighting with anxiety remember 'Drops wear down the stone, not by force, but by constant falling.'