Voices in Your Head And how to take command of your mind PDF
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Voices in Your Head And how to take command of your mind by Yvo and the Barefoot Doctor © Wayward Publications Ltd Published by Wayward Publications Ltd © Edinburgh 2017 www.waywardpublications.com Copyright © Wayward Publications Ltd The moral rights of the authors have been asserted All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the authors. Cover designs Spanky Pymm Edited by Harry Althoff British Library Cataloguing-in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available on request from the British Library ISBN 978-1-912062-25-6 in epub format ISBN 978-1-912062-26-3 in mobi format ISBN 978-1-912062-27-0 in azw3 format ISBN 978-1-912062-28-7 in pdf format ISBN 978-1-912062-29-4 in print Dedication To my co-author, Barefoot Doctor, to whom I will be forever indebted and without whom I’m fairly sure I wouldn’t be here now – thank you for your kindness, your love, your empathy, your humor, your infinite patience, your trust, your wonderful friendship and for being here unerringly to help bring me out of the darkness and into the light. Thank you Stevo with all my heart Love, Yvo The Voices The world is such a scary place When you're trapped inside your head It's very dark and very loud Your mind is full of dread The voices tell you what to do And then tell you you can't The noise won't stop, just won't let up To give you just a chance It feels like a maze of tunnels With noise at every turn The loudness so incessant Your brain begins to burn The arguments keep going Endlessly through the night You cannot stop the torment You lose the will to fight Then suddenly in front of you You see a hand to hold You take it and keep holding on Terrified it'll let you go Slowly you inch out of the dark Towards a golden light Yet still so scared in case you fall You hold on very tight The voices say you cannot win You'll fall right down again You mustn't listen, you must be strong And trust right through the pain The light gets brighter as you climb Each little step you take The noise goes quiet, the voices fade Still you fear the magic you'll break And then you find you're standing You no longer fear you'll fall The hand who helped and guided you? A friend who heard your call Your golden friend shows you the path The way for you to go Into the light and out of the dark And the peace you'll come to know What the book’s about This book follows the amazing, and at times scary journey I (Yvo) went on when I found the Barefoot Doctor and he showed me how to quieten down the extremely loud, destructive voices in my head and, as a result, help me heal myself of the so-called OCD that was controlling and ruining my life. It tells the very personal story of all the stages I went through, and all the battles and irrational fears I had along the way. To explain, we call it ‘so-called OCD’ because I (the Barefoot Doctor) don’t believe in putting a label on things. Everyone has compulsions to some extent; usually they’re not really noticeable and don’t affect someone’s ability to conduct their life ‘normally’. It’s purely a matter of degrees before someone decides to call it OCD, and then there are further degrees–mild, debilitating, etc. Everyone hears voices to a greater or lesser extent too–the little nagging voice that says you should or shouldn’t have done something, perhaps, or that you didn’t do something ‘right’. However, for most people this is the only voice they hear or notice, and it’s not that loud, so it doesn’t penetrate into their daily life or disrupt it too much, if at all. Some may not register even hearing this voice until it’s pointed out to them. It’s when this voice gets so loud, or worse, if there’s more than one of them, so they argue with each other, that they encroach so much into your life you can no longer function properly, or even function at all. You try to do what they tell you you must do all the time to make sure everything stays alright. It’s utter torment. This is what had happened with me (Yvo). They’d got so loud and destructive and the ocd had got so bad that I no longer wanted to keep going. The first part of the book comprises introductions by us both. Next is the main body of the book, which consists of a series of emails between us broken into chapters. These largely constituted the ‘therapy’ and the healing. We believe that by keeping the story in this format, it will allow you to understand and absorb the process better. Most importantly, our intention is that following the journey will more readily allow you to put all the techniques into practice yourself as you go along. There are exercises, affirmations and enlightened guidance from myself, Stephen, all the way through, plus critically, a failsafe method that, if practiced consistently, will take you away from all the noise for as long as you’re there. I’ll be explaining the Method to you presently. Some of the emails have commentaries from one or both of us in between, explaining our thinking at the time, to help with understanding what we each felt was going on. Following this there is an epilogue with some final thoughts. Finally, we’ve included a couple of poems that I (Yvo) wrote. We hope you enjoy our book and that it helps quieten down the noise. Yvo and the Barefoot Doctor Barefoot Doctor’s Method What follows is a true story about a woman's remarkable courage, a miraculous healing, and an angel. Being privy to a myriad of stories gathered over a million sessions helping people across a span of five decades, this is one of the most remarkable of all, if not the most remarkable. I'm not a psychiatrist, psychologist, or psychotherapist. I even hesitate to say I'm a healer, even though that's evidently what I do. I'm a person, a brother to the greater human family, and I help other people, privileged through training and experience to have at hand the resources and skills to do so fairly effectively. Trained in a holistic model, the way I practice is to eschew from my view all concept of disease or illness, along with all their conventional descriptions, names and acronyms, and instead see a person there. This applies to all levels of human experience, the physical, the psychological, the emotional, the lifestyle setup, all of it. For according to the system my healing skills are largely based on, (which I'll explain presently), there is no real division between these when seen holistically (as a whole). The innermost self expresses its discomfort through any or all of these, and the trick is to get to the root of where that disharmony originates and address it there. Then all symptoms, at whatever level of self, start changing and gradually dissolving. It will help us in our inquiry here (I say inquiry, because on account of the unfathomable complex of layers that comprises the human condition, there can be no definitive conclusions, merely an ongoing inquiry) if we start by acknowledging such terms as schizophrenia, polyphrenia, bipolar syndrome, autism, paranoia, depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, and so on, have no a priori status, sanctity, or ontological substantiveness,
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