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How to relieve emotional and mental distress without drugs or talking therapy
You can put an end to your suffering from fear, anxiety, depression, anger and much more, by following the simple instructions given in Adaptation Practice without needing to take psychiatric drugs.
Under different names Adaptation Practice has stood the test of time. Over the last two thousand five hundred years it has relieved severe suffering for millions of people — making it the most well-tested way ever known. It has had profound effects on those cultures it has been introduced to. But very few of us in the West know what it is, and even if we have heard of it, experience shows that we wouldn’t know how to start to put it into practice.
The practice has been adapted and simplified by Dr Clive Sherlock (a British doctor and Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists – MRCPsych). All those who follow it find an inner strength developing in them to cope with emotion and find peace, joy and fulfilment.
Videos: Clive Sherlock is interviewed here by Nicole Lamberson from the Medicating Normal documentay team.
Adaptation Practice in the news: See the feature articles in The Times and The Guardian newspapers.
Weekly Online Talks you can listen to the discussions about Adaptation Practice with questions and answers.
Individual sessions: you can book a one-on-one online confidential session to discuss personal issues and then you can make an informed decision about what to do next, or ask more questions.
Is Adaptation practice for you?
You might be experiencing any of the difficult problems mentioned above and now you can try this safe, harmless way and discover for yourself how the practice can help.
With practice the focus of your attention will naturally shift away from disturbing thoughts which you might think you have to correct. By living more in your body you will find the natural normal emotional strength deeloping in you to be able to cope with how you feel.
Tapering psychiatric drugs
Adaptation Practice also offers the latest structured guidance on tapering psychiatric drugs and gives support throughout.
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How Adaptation Practice Works
1 Following simple practice we discover for ourselves that all emotion is nothing other than the life that lives in us, in the body, and makes us alive. It is the life that responds perfectly naturally and normally to situations. It energises us in getting what we want and getting rid of what we do not want. Our reactions to threats, loss, moods and feelings are not symptoms of something wrong with us or our brain – they are symptoms of normal healthy human beings.
2 As we practise we come to realise that difficulties in life are inevitable for all of us and with growing inner emotional strength wc can cope and eventually the suffering fades away.
3 Practice starts with what we can already do, no matter how little it is, not with what we can’t yet do. Step by step we will be able to cope with more and stronger unwanted emotion, moods and feelings – and with the disturbing thoughts that come with them.
4 Gradually we find that practising stops the vicious cycles that usually spin aroud in us as emotion flares up > we think something is wrong with us and feel hopeless and helpless > get lost in a storm of thoughts making us feel worse … and so it goes on for days, weeks, months, years.
5 But wait, now we are getting to the root of the problem and not just trying to get rid of symptoms by taking drugs or talking endlessly.
Next Step:
We might decide to try the practice, to give it a go for two or three months and find out for ourselves.
No prior knowledge is needed. As with life itself, we all start from scratch.
More information can be found on this website and please feel free to ask any questions or to meet one-to-one through this confidential link.
Weekly Talks: You can also apply to listen to the weekly talks and ask questions: Apply to join weekly talks.