Eliana,

I love Wayne Dyer!  I haven’t read ‘Your Erroneous Zones’ but that’s going on my book list.

It’s interesting that Wayne Dyer wrote this, because in the late 1990’s (when ‘The 4 Agreements’ debuted) he gave praise towards it, also ‘The Law of Attraction’ (which is an awesome book in itself).  I accidentally forgot to mention that ‘always do your best’ has more depth than just the superficiality of the ‘do your best’ part.   That TOTALLY spawns paranoia and self-damaging thoughts.  Don Miguel Ruiz (the author of the book) elaborates a little more on this agreement (from the book):

“…Always Do Your Best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret…”

🙂

RB,

Thank you for sharing your story and giving thoughtful input.  I was actually in CBT for around 6 years and it helped me greatly.   I stopped going because I had pretty much developed the skills to function normally, had gotten back on my feet and had work, etc.  I guess when things start going well in life, I tend to forget/neglect about the coping skills I had developed…It’s like exercise: you get out of shape if you don’t keep on working out.  I guess I got out of shape with mindfulness and keeping my coping skills in the current.  I just need to start getting back on track and focusing on the present, meditating, journaling, etc.   Sometime’s it’s so hard to schedule out a chunk of ‘nothing’ where I just sit quietly.

I wanted to thank everyone for helping me out during this traumatizing time.  Your input, stories, and assistance have really helped to ground me and realize that there are good people in the world:)