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| andythesailor |
Posted - 10/30/2011 : 08:09:54
Hi all,
I am just finding TMS ad I want to know whether I should stop exercise for the time being or continue?
As I had a history of back ache my exercise routine is built to comprise and support my back.
The query I have is whether my routine is now bad for me in the context of TMS and doing it only encourages the TMS pain to continue to exist?
On the flip side i really enjoy my exercise routine and hate sitting around.
thanks all
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| tennis tom |
Posted - 10/31/2011 : 08:55:31
quote:
Originally posted by andythesailor
...As I had a history of back ache my exercise routine is built to comprise and support my back.
...The query I have is whether my routine is now bad for me in the context of TMS and doing it only encourages the TMS pain to continue to exist?
Your routine is not bad for you--thinking you are doing it because there is something wrong with your back is WRONG for you. The Good Doctor and I say the back is STRONG, the body is STRONG, it is the mind that is weak, a consequence of our culture.
You want to decondition your mind from the nocebo that your back is weak. You do this by successfully doing what you once thought was impossible--success breeds success.
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DR. SARNO'S 12 DAILY REMINDERS:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0dKBFwGR0g
TAKE THE HOLMES-RAHE STRESS TEST
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holmes_and_Rahe_stress_scale
Some of my favorite excerpts from _THE DIVIDED MIND_ :
http://www.tmshelp.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2605
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"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." Jiddu Krishnamurti
"Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional." Author Unknown
"Happy People Are Happy Putters." Frank Nobilo, Golf Analyst
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Here's a list of TMS practitioners from the TMS Wiki:
http://tmswiki.org/page/Find+a+TMS+Doctor+or+Therapist
Here's a map of TMS practitioners from the old Tarpit Yoga site:
http://www.tarpityoga.com/2007_08_01_archive.html |
| kesh2 |
Posted - 10/31/2011 : 03:44:11
sorry i misunderstood your post
maybe put an exercise routine of your own together of what you enjoy, rather than one that was meant to fix your back |
| wrldtrv |
Posted - 10/30/2011 : 13:33:14
I see your dilemma, Andy. You are concerned that doing the exercises to strengthen ("fix") your back would reinforce that the pain was structural rather than psychological.
That's a tough one. If you truly enjoy doing the exercises for their own sake and can somehow escape the hidden agenda of, "maybe this will also prevent a back relapse" go ahead. Or, if you can treat your back exercises as just part of the larger process of staying in shape, go ahead. It might help to remind yourself while you are doing them that they won't fix anything physical because there is nothing physical to fix. |
| kesh2 |
Posted - 10/30/2011 : 08:31:33
Sarno says one of the most important things in tms is to not be afraid of physical activity, even vigorous physical activity, and to resume it.
However Sarno suggests (HBP, page 80 in my edition) that you should only do this when you are confident of the tms diagnosis and have already experienced significant pain reduction. The reasoning is that physical activity may increase pain due to tms playing its old tricks, and early on this may cause patients to doubt the tms diagnosis.
So exercise when you are confident about how any pain it causes is just more tms. |
