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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by Monte[/i] [br]Hi Everyone, One of the biggest challenges to reversing TMS and learning how to live with TMS is being able to spontaneously, in the moment - Think Psychological, Be Present and Experience Emotions. I am happy to share with you a new practice that will genuinely and spontaneously remind you and allow you the opportunity to: Think Psychological, Think Clean, Be with Emotions and Be Present. Think Psychological Now: The 21-Day Simple & Effective Life Changing Practice featuring the new - Think Psychological Wristband In your hands you can hold the secret practice to reversing the powerful, intelligent and creative Tension Myositis Syndrome (TMS) pain/distraction strategy. In the process of reversing the strategy, you will discover that you have learned an important secret on how to live with TMS, but without the painful, chronic symptoms! Big Words? Yes! Read on… Back Story Will Bowen, a Kansas City minister recognized, as I have in Think Clean, Chapter 2 of The Master Practice— that choice determines thought choice, which determines emotions and actions (behavior patterns). It’s not enough to just decide you’ll stop using certain words and replace them though, it requires some new conditioning which is what this practice is all about. Mr. Bowen’s idea centered on How to Stop Complaining and he designed a solution in the form of a simple purple bracelet, which he offered to his congregation with a challenge: go 21 days without complaining. Each time one of them complained, they had to switch the bracelet to their other wrist and start again from day 0. It was simple but effective metacognitive awareness training. More on metacognitive below. Why 21 days? 21 Days is the most often noted length of time needed to successfully establish a new behavior or pattern. The effects of Bowen’s experiment were immediate and life-changing. The bracelets spread like wildfire as others observed these transformations, and, to date, more than 8,500,000 people have requested the little devices. People have used this simple strategy of putting a bracelet on their wrist and then switching it from wrist to wrist until they managed to go 21 consecutive days without complaining, criticizing or gossiping. In the process they have formed a new condition. By becoming conscious of and thereby changing their words, they have changed their thoughts and begun to create a new pattern, which we know also creates a change in our quality of emotional energy. Dr. John Sarno’s absolute genius more than 40 years ago was recognizing that by Thinking Psychological, (changing how we thought about the cause of chronic pain) a person could render the TMS chronic pain strategy useless. In this practice, a person chooses to think and believe their physical pain is caused by psychological dynamics and not a physical dysfunction, the effects for many are immediate and life changing—no more chronic pain! Think Psychological and Think Clean are simple and effective strategies, however, they are not always immediate or permanent. These practices take continued conscious awareness (self-regulation) to remain effective for the required duration needed to create permanent new patterns of change. The Solution: A self-monitoring device (wristband) that enhances awareness and promotes self-regulation, which provide continuous, spontaneous opportunities to create new thought patterns that replace our old, chronic, conditioned ones. In present time we are able to change our patterns that are generating chronic inner tension and we are able to interrupt our patterns that are repressing feelings. This is a big, huge achievement that we will now be able to achieve a few more or a lot more times each day spontaneously. We will not have to rely on our memory to check in on how we are being or to call time-out and be with our feelings. Every time we notice our Think Psychological wristband we are spontaneously and automatically signaled to (1) Think Psychological, (2) Be with our emotions, (3) Adjust a thought or behavior pattern or (4) Be present moment based! These four, conscious actions are the key to breaking the pain/distraction strategy and the key to addressing the real cause of TMS. Here is how you can use the Think Psychological wristband: 1. Begin to wear the wristband on either hand. 2. When you notice yourself being distracted by pain symptoms, searching for or partaking in physical treatments, reasoning as to why this must by a physical cause, fearing resumption of normal activities, any pattern that is keeping you from being aware of how your are being and how you are feeling – Move the wristband to your other hand and Begin Again. Note: It is important to Move the wristband to your other hand. 3. Advanced Step – When you catch yourself in any of your dominant Type-A, tension/pressure generation & repression patterns: Worry, Perfection, Controlling, Striving, Pleasing, Holding In Feelings, Being Overly Self-Conscious – Move the wristband to your other hand and Begin Again. Note: It is important to Move the wristband to your other hand. 4. Begin Again – If you are in Step 2 this means to acknowledge your distraction as a Signal to Think Psychological – “I know this is TMS, Thank you for the reminder, What is going on with me right now, Is anything bothering me, Where is my focus. Genuinely be psychological. You can also choose to become present moment based wherever you are, what you are doing or whom you are with. 5. Begin Again – If you are in Step 3 this means to acknowledge your awareness of being in one of your Tension Generation/Repression Patterns – Here I am in my _________ Pattern –What am I feeling right now? Make the choice to Sit, to Be with Your Feeling for a minute or two. Be with whatever you are feeling for a minute or two and nowhere else—no thinking allowed! Experiencing your feeling allows the tension energy to dissipate and not be repressed. Now ask yourself a Think Clean question -- How can I be with them and be more open? or How can I deal with this situation and be more flexible? or How can I be here and not be in my _______ pattern? The key to transformation is having these think clean questions be genuine. As often as possible, before you ask/answer your question and engage the new Think Clean pattern, make the choice to Be with Your Feeling for a minute or two. You will be amazed at the dissipated tension energy and the ease of now becoming a little more open, allowing, balanced or flexible in your new pattern. 6. Stay the course. It may take months or years to reach 21 consecutive days. The average for Mr. Bowen’s “no complaining” program is 4-8 months. Important Note: When you catch yourself being distracted by physical symptoms/thinking or when you notice yourself engaged in one of your tension/repression Type-A patterns you must move the wristband from one hand to the other. It is the act of moving your Think Psychological bracelet that plants furrows deep into the consciousness, making you aware of your behavior. You must move it, every time you are aware of it. Your package will include an orange, embossed, silicone wristband. On one half of the wristband you will find the words Think Psychological and on the other half Be Present Now. For those of you interested in the science of metacognition and why it works. Metacognition is defined as "cognition about cognition", or "knowing about knowing." It can take many forms; it includes knowledge about when and how to use particular strategies for learning or for problem solving. Different fields define metacognition differently. Metacognition variously refers to the study of memory-monitoring and self-regulation, meta-reasoning, consciousness/awareness and auto-consciousness/self-awareness. In practice these capacities are used to regulate one's own cognition, to maximize one's potential to think, learn and evaluate. In the domain of cognitive neuroscience, metacognitive monitoring and control has been viewed as a function of the prefrontal cortex, which receives (monitors) sensory signals from other cortical regions and through feedback loops implements control. The prefrontal cortex (PFC) is the anterior part of the frontal lobes of the brain, lying in front of the motor and premotor areas. This brain region has been implicated in planning complex cognitive behaviors, personality expression, decision making and moderating correct social behavior. The basic activity of this brain region is considered to be orchestration of thoughts and actions in accordance with internal goals. The most typical psychological term for functions carried out by the prefrontal cortex area is executive function. Executive function relates to abilities to differentiate among conflicting thoughts, determine good and bad, better and best, same and different, future consequences of current activities, working toward a defined goal, prediction of outcomes, expectation based on actions, and social "control" (the ability to suppress urges that, if not suppressed, could lead to socially-unacceptable outcomes). Many authors have indicated an integral link between a person's personality and the functions of the prefrontal cortex. Small Rant – Many of you continue to think and verbally state that in TMS your brain is doing something to cause TMS symptoms and that you need to talk to and convince your brain to stop doing these things. Your brain is simply following the directions (energy) that you are giving it. You might be better served to think of your brain as a part of your complex mindbody system. When you generate inner stress, this tension energy gets communicated or transmitted to your brain. When you repress feelings, this repression creates tension energy also and this energy is transmitted to your brain. If you choose to be with your feelings instead of repressing them you create energies of balance, allowing, openness, freedom and you guessed it, this energy is also transmitted to your brain. Your brain is simply taking whatever quality of energy you give it and then acting accordingly. In TMS, nothing is wrong with your brain, it is working perfectly. It is taking the quality of energy that you create and transmit to it and then giving you the effects. Don’t waste your energy wondering why and how your brain is doing all this stuff. Instead put your attention on how you can create a higher quality of energy. A quality that is more open, allowing, balanced and flexible. The only thing you can control is how you are being right now. Do you need a reminder of, how am I being right now? Look down at your wrist and put Think Psychological into action. Stay the course, Monte Hueftle TMS Mind Body Coach monte@runningpain.com P.S. - the www.themasterpractice.com site contains the most recent TMS Updates - I highly encourage everyone to reread and digest the Sitting With Emotions update - Being with your emotions is genuine Think Psychological and I believe it is the most important practice that you can engage in daily to reverse the effects of TMS.[b][/b][b][/b][b][/b] [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature.