If you are you looking for a way to quickly neutralize the extreme stress in your life, an immediate solution to intense anxiety, depression, and panic attacks; if you are you sick of spending hundreds or even thousands of dollars on prescription anti-depressants on top of having to live with their side effects; if you are you tired of spending hours in your therapist’s office talking in circles, then sit tight because what I am about to tell you will turn your thinking about how handle extreme stress upside-down and inside-out.
Here’s why: My name is Grady Leach and, like most of you, I am NOT a doctor or a therapist.
I am a successful attorney working in the Motion Picture & Television business at a major Hollywood Talent Agency. I put in 70-80 hour plus weeks in a pressure cooker environment full of explosive personalities and split-second decisions in a constantly shifting business landscape where fortunes are made and lost over the weekend’s box office receipts.
I have successfully created and live what most people would call an extremely high-stress lifestyle in a profession with the highest rates of substance abuse, job dissatisfaction, and suicide … a lifestyle which just so happens to be completely free of the anxiety, depression, and panic attacks that used to plague my everyday life.
How?
In short, I took a different approach.
I know what you want. I know because you want the same thing that I wanted. You want to stop suffering from the anxiety, the depression, and the panic attacks. You want to be free of stress-related symptoms. And you want to do it without getting hooked on prescription anti-depressants or spending hours in the therapist’s chair.
I can give you what you want. But I do not expect you to believe me. Not yet.
First I have to transform your ideas of what stress and stress management really are, the same way that another man transformed my own ideas …
A Transformative Meeting With A Rare Individual
In 2002 I first met a unique person whose knowledge would change my life in a profound way. His name is “Colonel Bruce”, and several years before he had retired as a highly-decorated Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army Special Forces. On top of his extensive military experience the Colonel was infamous in certain circles for having a deep knowledge of traditional martial arts. As a passionate martial artist myself, it was out of a desire to investigate his martial background that I decided to track him down.
2002 also happened to be the year in my life when I was most afflicted by the effects of extreme stress. Panic attacks, pervasive anxiety, recurrent depression, bouts of anger … you name it, and I suffered it. It felt like every day was a battle, a battle that I was losing. The sheer good fortune that I had to meet the Colonel at that crucial time in my life never ceases to amaze me.
When I first met Colonel Bruce, the first thing I noticed was the way he moved. Despite carrying more than 200 lbs. of hard muscle on a broad, squat frame, he moved with perfect posture and a supple grace I have rarely seen matched. Coupled with his shaved head and habit of dressing like a Harley-Davidson enthusiast, it was like watching a Hell’s Angel dance world-class ballet! I soon learned that this quality of movement was a direct result of his many decades of training physical relaxation under a series of Chinese traditional martial artists.
The second thing I noticed, once he began to speak, was the profound sense of peace and calm that practically radiated from the man. Each word and gesture of communication seemed to be a study in relaxation and poise. This was a career soldier, a man whose livelihood and career revolved around making war, and yet his gentility exceeded that of almost every “gentleman” I’ve ever met. He was (and continues to be) a true study in contrasts.
That first day we sat down to speak and I immediately launched into a conversation about my own extensive background in martial arts, simultaneously inquiring about the Colonel’s. He quickly cut me off. “Grady,” he said matter-of-factly, “you’re putting the cart before the horse! First things first. There’s no use in worrying about the enemy over there,” he pointed to a man sitting at a table nearby, “until you’ve dealt with the enemy in here.” He reached out and tapped me right on the forehead, before regarding me quietly for a moment. “I’ll be honest with you,” he continued, “you look like you've been through hell.” I slumped a bit in my chair, because I knew he was right. The Colonel has always been gotten right to the point.
It was on that first day, in that first conversation, that Colonel Bruce began to teach me the method he had developed and personally used to deal with the excruciating stress of life-and-death combat. A unique blend of his military experience and his traditional martial training, it was these few simple exercises which had not only helped him to survive countless battles, but had granted him the kind of serenity and peace of mind in day-to-day life that I have rarely seen matched.
It was Colonel Bruce, in that first fateful meeting, who first turned me on the concept that extreme stress does not cause illnesses, it causes injuries.
Stress-Related ILLNESS vs. Stress-Related INJURY
Anxiety, Depression, Panic Attacks, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Anger Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder … all these conditions are what are commonly called “stress-related illnesses”. We call them that because they are fundamentally caused by an inability to manage stress. But I do not want you to think of them as illnesses.
I want you to think of them as injuries.
Imagine you walked into your local gym and tried to deadlift 250 lbs. Many trained athletes can lift this weight with relative ease. However, in our example, you fail to lift the weight and actually tweak your lower back in the process.
Now you would not refer to the problem with your lower back as an “illness” but as an “injury”, correct? You were not strong enough to lift the weight and so you injured yourself in the process.
These stress-related conditions like anxiety, depression, and panic attacks are the exact same thing: injuries caused by a lack of proper training.
The difference is that in our minds we think of an “illness” as something that happens to us, something beyond our control, beyond our responsibility. However an “injury” is not something entirely outside of our control. It is something that happens when we overstrain ourselves or engage in an activity without proper training and conditioning.
You must start thinking about managing extreme stress the same way you think about lifting a heavy weight or running a marathon. If you have not trained yourself to handle extreme stress, you will suffer injuries. But if you have trained yourself to handle extreme stress, you can manage it with relative safety and ease, if not enjoyment.
The prescription drug industry wants you to believe that anxiety depression are illnesses that need to be medicated. I am here to tell you that they are injuries that can be prevented.
It is true. You really can train yourself to handle more stress than you ever thought possible. I am living proof. If you want to stop being injured by stress, like I did, then you need to start training correctly – it is as simple as that.
Why Trying to Reduce or Eliminate Stress is WRONG!
Stress Management is a skill.
Repeat that 3 times.
Stress Management is a skill.
Stress Management is a skill.
Stress Management is a skill.
If you can understand, accept, and act on that one simple sentence you will be miles ahead of every other person who suffers from stress.
THE STRESS VACCINE™ is a simple but very sophisticated program of training, based on the material I learned from Colonel Bruce, designed to teach you the skill of extreme stress management in the shortest amount of time possible.
What you want is NOT to reduce or eliminate the stress from your life.
Think about the people who are at the top of their profession, the best of the best: the elite soldier, the Olympic athlete, the Fortune 500 CEO, the single working mother of three, the concert pianist, the award-winning stage actor, or the hot-shot trial attorney.
These people are not the best because they minimized or eliminated stress from their lives. They are the best because they have developed the skill of performing under extreme amounts of stress – THAT is what you want.
THE STRESS VACCINE™ will show you the path to getting it, by putting in as little as 15 minutes a day.
Brought together for the first time in a single program, it represents the fastest solution to extreme stress, anxiety, and depression in existence.
I know it works because it worked for me. There is absolutely no way I could live the life I live without stress-related injury had I not put the principles from THE STRESS VACCINE™ into practice.
But you do not have to take my word for it ...
This ground-breaking book covers in minute detail the "3 R's" of Reversing the Spine, Releasing the Breath, and Returning the Mind, three exercises that will completely transform your relationship with stress. You will enjoy the exhiliration of transforming the stress in your life from something that tears you down to something that literally powers you up - something that puts high-octane fuel in your tank.
At over 125 pages chock full of politically-incorrect, in your face, nuts-and-bolts information, this course manual is literally all you will ever need to recalibrate your body and mind to handle truly mind-boggling amounts of stress.
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Whatever you decide, I genuinely hope that you are going to go with your gut and make a strong, powerful choice for change in your life. As Benjamin Disraeli said, "Not all action brings happiness, but there is no happiness without action!"