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| Monte |
Posted - 08/25/2007 : 16:16:56
What you are feeling right now is the point of your attraction.
What you are feeling right now in this moment, in your thoughts, your emotions, and your body, is the point of your attraction.
This is the Law of Attraction and it is absolute truth in every situation and condition in your life.
It is also the most accurate representation of what you are experiencing with this pain disorder. This is why asking yourself frequently, especially when on the receiving end of a pain sensation, "what am I feeling right now" or "what is causing me to be frustrated/tense
right now" is such a powerful inner communication for you to help you begin reversing this pain disorder.
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What you are feeling right now in this moment, in your thoughts, your emotions, and your body, is the point of your attraction.
If you are feeling frustrated, worry, anger, controlling, striving, resentment, closed-off, shut-down, repressed, depressed, or why can't I just figure this out and be well, then you are attracting into your life, your experiences and your body more of the same.
Worry is repression and attracts more closed off repressed experiences and feelings. Anger is repression and attracts the same. Striving, yes striving is repression and attracts more of the same....In this disorder, the same means conditions of pain, soreness, fatigue, ect.
Many people know and understand this concept, The Law of Attraction.
It is also the dynamic that is playing out in TMS. Why? becasue tension induced pain is a thought induced pain disorder. Emotional energy gets stuck-blocked--repressed in our body and through our intelligent nervous system blood vessels restrict oxygen flow and the result is pain sensations of various degrees and diff. varieties...thank you Candace Pert.
We know it, we pretty much understand it, then why is it so challenging to reverse/eliminate? We get what we focus on, what we attract more of is what we are thinking about consciously or unconsciously. Old habitual, conditoned thought process just keep racing through our minds.
So one of the big keys to reversing this pain disorder is to Stop attracting the repressing thoughts/conditions which are bascially producing the pain. We must get our focus/attention/thoughts off of "I am in pain" "how do I get rid of this" "who can get rid of it for me" "what medications/treatments/exercises can end this" type of thinking and we have to also get our focus/attention/thoughts out of (worry, anger, controlling, frustration, striving, would of, should of, could of, ect.) type of thinking. The focus in both of these thought patterns is attracting more of the same, which means it is creating pain in your body or maintaining pain, but in No Way is it reversing the pain cycle. And that is the case even when you know, understand and Accept the Tms diagnosis.
So we eliminate as much as we can one way of thinking and focus and we must then Consciously generate new thoughts which produce new feelings.
We want our body to feel good, heal, be healthy right? So your focus must be on openness vs repressed, accepting vs controlling, I'm getting better, I can do this vs how is this going to end.
This is where it can get tricky. we want to feel good but we end up focusing on how bad we feel. We get more of what we focus on. If we want to feel good, we have to generate thoughts that help us feel good or at the very least a little bit better. Does it feel good to worry? Does it feel good to always be in a controlling mindset? Does it feel good to be in frustration or anger about this and that? Of couse not, and then you add in the fact that these type of thoughts are generating and maintaining pain sensations for tms'ers you get a double whammy.
You can begin to switch your thoughts and feelings when you make the choice to become conscious of what you are thinking about....if it doesn't feel good switch the thought to one that feels better. You can do this and it gets easier the more you do it without trying to control the outcome and without putting pressure on yourself to do it perfectly.
It works because it is the law of attraction in process. And when you combine this process with the basics of tms you will get immidiate postive results.
Monte Hueftle
http://www.runningpain.com
monte@runningpain.com |
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| mamaboulet |
Posted - 08/27/2007 : 08:17:46
The programmed behavior (obsessing about pain or pain coming)is negative, but switching your focus to the negative issues that cause the pain (think psychological)IS a positive, because you are doing it with positive expectations toward a positive goal. To say that confronting and working through the inner conflicts that are having a negative impact on your life is attracting negative to you, according to the Law of Attraction, is like saying that people who confront disease, or poverty, or mental illness, or racism, or violence, etc., are attracting negative to themselves, according to the Law of Attraction. That is absurd.
I've seen The Secret. The positive thinking aspects are valid. Applied positive thinking is very useful. But the rest comes off as cosmic BS, and sounds a whole lot like born again religious crap (if you pray long enough and hard enough, Jesus will hear you and respond. If you don't get your prayers answered you are obviously doing it wrong, or not enough...). The idea that you have to learn the secret handshake to get into the positive attraction club is just annoying and smarmy. |
| Woodchuck |
Posted - 08/27/2007 : 07:09:58
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Originally posted by Webdan65
I think there are two sides to the TMS equation.
Journaling and expressing that which is locked in our subconscious will help us to get so far in relieving TMS pain. However, there needs to come a point where we also begin to think good thoughts too. Healthy thoughts. This isn't the old "positive thinking" that won't get us very far on it's own.
I just read the chapter in Somatics by Hanna about "Expectation - The Role of Mental Attitude"
What I personally got out of that chapter is this. Expectations tie directly into Sarno's theory of a programmed or conditioned response. You expect to feel pain when you do a certain thing and of course it is there - without fail.
In working through my latest bout of TMS back pain, I am able to change the pain response by consciously and with force thinking that "I'll be fine" or there "won't be any pain" before I do something. (in my case standing up straight after sitting for a while) And I always feel better having "expected" NO pain rather than expecting the pain with a cringe on my face and tight body.
So, whether you call it the Law of Attraction, Positive thinking, Expectation - it all can lead to a path away from the programmed response of "here comes the pain....yep....there it is."
This doesn't take away the requirement for doing the TMS work...but this "expectation" or "you get what you think about" can likely play into the overall success of eliminating TMS symptoms.
I guess in the end our belief in the process and our "expectations" of the results are intimately connected. That's why belief and accepting the diagnosis are required to cure. Hmmm...
Dan
Your comments make a lot of sense to me Dan.
Woodchuck |
| Webdan65 |
Posted - 08/27/2007 : 06:35:51
I think there are two sides to the TMS equation.
Journaling and expressing that which is locked in our subconscious will help us to get so far in relieving TMS pain. However, there needs to come a point where we also begin to think good thoughts too. Healthy thoughts. This isn't the old "positive thinking" that won't get us very far on it's own.
I just read the chapter in Somatics by Hanna about "Expectation - The Role of Mental Attitude"
What I personally got out of that chapter is this. Expectations tie directly into Sarno's theory of a programmed or conditioned response. You expect to feel pain when you do a certain thing and of course it is there - without fail.
In working through my latest bout of TMS back pain, I am able to change the pain response by consciously and with force thinking that "I'll be fine" or there "won't be any pain" before I do something. (in my case standing up straight after sitting for a while) And I always feel better having "expected" NO pain rather than expecting the pain with a cringe on my face and tight body.
So, whether you call it the Law of Attraction, Positive thinking, Expectation - it all can lead to a path away from the programmed response of "here comes the pain....yep....there it is."
This doesn't take away the requirement for doing the TMS work...but this "expectation" or "you get what you think about" can likely play into the overall success of eliminating TMS symptoms.
I guess in the end our belief in the process and our "expectations" of the results are intimately connected. That's why belief and accepting the diagnosis are required to cure. Hmmm...
Dan |
| UK james |
Posted - 08/27/2007 : 04:52:57
Monte
I hear what you are saying but shouldn't we be tring to confront what we are repressing and thus causing the pain. These things may indeed be negative/unpleasent but if we ignore them, they are repressed and cause TMS. I know it is important to visualise positive things (begin with the end in mind etc) to help motivate us to achieve whatever it is we want. This can be helpful with TMS, visualising yourself being TMS free, undertaking an activity that you love, without pain.
Just a bit confused about not thinking about the negative stuff when this is what we need to confron to avoid repression!!
J
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| armchairlinguist |
Posted - 08/27/2007 : 01:54:26
The Law of Attraction is complete BS. [For a nice deconstruction/skepticism piece, see http://www.csicop.org/specialarticles/secretrons.html]
The rest of your post is good though.
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| kilton |
Posted - 08/26/2007 : 07:28:43
Thanks Monte. I've been looking forward to more blog entries from you.
An article from Friday seems to relate to this topic: http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSROB47396920070824
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