Warren's first success

Warren's first success

Strength restored with help from a higher power

By the Thursday afternoon break a man I will call Warren came up to me with a big smile and said, "I can't wait to tell you this, I can't wait any longer. I want you to know that last night for the first time in two years I slept in a real bed...not cement...but a real bed."

"The reason I can't wait any longer to tell you is because I won't be here tomorrow."

He saw the happiness in my face when he told me about the bed, but I guess he saw the look of disappointment when he said he wouldn't complete the course.

Then he got another big grin on his face and said, "The reason I won't be here tomorrow is because I have to start my new job."

I was so happy for him.

Warren's story

At this point I did something I hadn't done up to now, mainly because I thought it was none of my business. I asked, "Warren, you don't have to answer this if you don't want to because it is none of my business, but I am curious, why have you been on the street?"

He told me that he and his wife and 14-year-old daughter had been living out in California.

They lived in a $200,000. home.

They had a truck, two cars and a boat.

They were making about $80,000 a year between them.

Three summers before, when they came back to Baltimore for a vacation, his 19 year old son by a previous marriage, was shot and killed on the street.

He said he felt like he hadn't taught his son enough to make him "street wise," and he experienced so much pain and guilt that the only thing that got rid of the pain was the prescription drugs, which only worked for a short while. Then he started doubling up on them.

When the prescription drugs no longer worked he turned to illegal ones.

It only took ten months before he had lost everything. His wife and daughter moved to an apartment He never returned to California.

He continued to tell me that when I gave the intro back in December, there was something I said that made him think there was this "little ray of hope that I don't have to live on the street forever."

So, he came to the class out of curiosity. (Remember my prayer for "trigger words"?) Also, he had been offered several jobs that week, but all of an illegal nature and he chose to give the class a chance.

Regaining control

He said it really affected him when I gave the lecture about "guilt and fear being the two most powerfully destructive forces in the universe, and if God forgives us than surely we can forgive ourselves." So, he started forgiving himself, especially at level, and that was a big step.

He shared with the class that he was able to finally get decent hours of sleep by first entering the alpha level.

When he found himself slipping and wanting the pain killers he would use the alpha level to relax himself and be positive.

He shared with the class that he believed that had he not been in class all week being positive and forgiving himself and praying for help that he would never had received the message from a former employer that he could have his old job back.

He also shared that one of his goals, which is what he was using visualization and imagination for, was to return to his wife and daughter in California. He had called them the night before and told them of his vision.

Another success for Warren

In the June class, in another church farther out of town, Warren took a bus to join us for one afternoon. Once again, he shared what he had achieved with the help of the Silva Techniques.

As he recovered somewhat on his own, he was eventually able to sign himself into a rehab clinic and he had totally recovered from the crack-cocaine habit, and he planned to join his family that summer.

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