David served in the Army and National Guard. After responding to the World Trade Center and Afghanistan he came home and discovered that his emotional reactions were out of control and inappropriate. In this interview, he shares how the Self Mastery course has helped him.
David first signed up for the free sessions in July and purchased the Basic Self Mastery series two months later in September. When we did this interview in March he had only received the last of the Basic Series sessions about 2 months prior. That’s not a lot of time to put all the tools and techniques together. However, he was making a personal change in his emotional reactions and was feeling much better about being in the world as he learns to become more efficient with the tools he is learning.
David shared with me that when he came back from Afghanistan he didn’t feel like himself. His emotional reactions weren’t appropriate. The “thing” that gets turned on in your mind in a war zone that helps you to survive doesn’t just turn off when you get home. His emotional and physiological systems were still operating in that heightened state for survival even when he was walking into the grocery store, the gas station, or going to the gym. He realized that he needed to make some changes and found that the Self Mastery Course Exercises have helped.