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I've been hesitant to purchase and give his program a try for one main reason...
The reason that concerns me is this. Back when I was still working full-time with CFS, I went through a period of sort of "new age" exploration -- I read books by Deepak Chopra, Wayne Dyer, Carolyn Myss, etc. I also was seeing an internationally known alternative health doctor (who shall remain nameless). The books and the advice of this doctor was essentially this: you are only limited by the limits of your thoughts. The doctor encouraged meditation where I visualized myself well, and told me to correct my thoughts to believe I was limitless and disease free, and my body would soon follow.
I have to admit, I went into this gung-ho. It's an empowering idea. The problem was, it caused me to essentially ignore my body. I continued to work full time, tried to maintain a social life, and ignored my limits because I thought all my meditating and positive thoughts would ensure I wouldn't crash. But a few months into this way of thinking, I had a crash so severe I was left bedbound and unable to speak. I never recovered.
So, I'm afraid to go down this route again.
Laurel--
I so MUCH can relate to your experience! I too travelled the "new age" road of mind over matter for many years back in the 1980's, until I smacked into the
dead end wall of total immune depletion/adrenal exhaustion.
I am now on 32 years of CFS. I have seen 125 practitioners of every ilk imaginable. Everything from the straight western MD's to the most outrageous new age
healers. More than half were either WORTHLESS or DETRIMENTAL. Most of the rest were a waste of time, money and energy. So I too have been very skeptical
about the Gupta program and will have to hear of many many stories of amazing recovery, before I go lunging after another new age pie in the sky.