Laurie Weiss and her husband went to dinner with old friends after a day at a professional conference in Montreal. Their friends picked a Mexican restaurant which was supposed to be quiet and pleasant.Now, Laurie is a highly sensitive person whose body rejects highly spiced food and loud noises, so the evening did not go well. Waiters kept promising food Laurie could eat but delivering food that made her mouth burn and induced violent coughing. As they sat there, several very loud families arrived and the mariachis began to play trumpets! Can you imagine how stressed Laurie felt?Laurie excused herself while her husband paid the bill. She went outside into a beautiful quiet evening to calm herself down. She did some breathing exercises and tapping so she thought she was fine. Then the friend came out and asked her if she was okay. She told him, truthfully, that she was. He asked her to describe what happened, and she did her best to explain how her body had become extremely tense.He asked if she would try something new and had her repeat some words she barely understood. Suddenly she experienced a whole new level of deep relaxation of the remaining tension that she had not even been aware of before. She was stunned! She asked what he had done, and he told her he had used a new European technique called Logosynthesis.Since that encounter in 2010, Laurie's life-long stress reaction to noise simply disappeared. Another change is that after her first training weekend, which she had been reluctant to schedule because of her stress reaction to the intense overstimulation of airplane travel, she flew home and simply forgot to be stressed. She has been able to travel on airplanes without any particular reaction ever since. Sadly, she still can't manage spicy food.After several years of study and supervision Laurie and her husband have become the first and (as of 2016) only certified practitioners and basic trainers of Logosynthesis in the United States.Excerpted from Letting It Go: Relieve Anxiety and Toxic Stress in Just a Few Minutes Using Only Words (Rapid Relief with Logosynthesis®) by Laurie WeissAmazon: http://www.BooksbyLaurie.com/goWebsite: http://www.LaurieWeiss.comTell Me a Story Podcast is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at tellmeastory.substack.com/subscribe