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| CaliBack |
Posted - 04/09/2012 : 15:38:49
I've been reading Sarno and Ozanich and really understanding that my remaining pain is TMS. Yes, I injured my back muscles a year ago, but feeling injured as a person and having it take over my life is TMS opportunizing on the injury. Of this I am certain. I also had a two year bout with my psoas muscle and also my knee. These were far in excess of the healing time.
My problem is that when I move certain ways, I experience severe pain in a specific spot in my back. So this is both scary and confusing. Do I just plow forth and cause myself pain and then say "It's not serious, it's TMS, angry ID please stand the eFF down."? I think that is right, but man, that is a little crazy to consciously hurt yourself. But is this what we have to do at some point - tough up and go for it knowing it will hurt?
Also, I enjoy doing yoga and my PT exercises - they keep me active and empowered. I don't really want to stop them as I think they are generally good for me. They do increase my range of motion and are variations on what I did before TMS grabbed me. Do I really have to give them up? Or can I reframe (as I am doing) as part of my daily workout which I will keep for life?
Thanks,
CaliBack |
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| CaliBack |
Posted - 04/11/2012 : 18:06:34
Floating above - that is good advice. I know my pain is not "serious" even if it feels that way. I also happen to know I have a LOT of rage, fear, and shame looking for a way to wreak havoc on my body. I speak to this part of me often now.
The pain will pass on as I reveal the process for what it is. It is already giving up the ghost, it does not have the power.
Thanks to everybody posting this. |
| shari |
Posted - 04/10/2012 : 16:51:37
CaliBack: It might help if you tried not to resist or fight your pain or your brain. Try instead accepting the pain as something that will be part of you for a while longer but will eventually go away. Try to switch your reaction to pain from fear to acceptance. Tell yourself that your symptoms are harmless and it's only your brain trying to scare you and force you to focus on your body. Focus instead on accepting the symptoms and relaxing the muscles involved. As Claire Weekes wrote: float, don't fight. Float above your fear, relax and let time pass. You can then focus on the emotions that are triggering this pain. These emotions are usually not hidden very deeply. They are just unrecognized. Unexpressed anger in one emotion we often miss because we usually associate it with yelling or losing one's patience. But this is expressed anger. Unexpressed anger is more difficult to recognize. Sulking or pouting, avoiding people, being mean to others, intimidating or manipulating people, using sarcasm, finding fault with everybody or everything, or thinking negatively, are all forms of unexpressed anger. To recognize it is the first step to understanding it and discovering its roots and dealing with it. The most difficult emotion to recognize is shame, because shame is such a painful emotion, we are unwilling to face it. This shame usually originated in our childhood and stayed with us, dictating many parts, if not all parts of our lives. Once we recognize it and find its roots, we can understand it and, like unexpressed anger, start to deal with it. |
| CaliBack |
Posted - 04/10/2012 : 14:35:42
These words are music to my ears.
Fear is keeping me prisoner, disabled. And of course the period following the injury was scary and difficult. But TMS has highjacked the injury now. I think this is a common mindbody trick. Do others here agree?
I've been talking to my unconscious, telling it to lay of the back, stand down. The rage in there is freaking homicidal. I've been working on that too, but the main point is that that pissed off little kid has to lay off my body.
I had a back twinge yesterday, it freaked me out, but I only spent a moment thinking physically. I knew it was not serious, that the trickster is messing with me.
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| Stryder |
Posted - 04/10/2012 : 10:24:37
...I have sharp pain while coughing or sneezing.
I would get a sharp pain in my lumbar (lower back) too. Its quite a successful distration, isn't it. Basically the muscles inflicted with TMS go into a quick spasm when you cough (or have any other change in internal body cavity pressure). This type of "incident" will diminish as you make progress in your TMS work and your muscles return to normal.
So long as the doc has DXed that you to not have serious disease, you can treat this as TMS.
No fear !
Take care, -Stryder |
| Sarnotic-nerve |
Posted - 04/10/2012 : 05:38:50
Plow forward, get out and don't even think about injuries, protective muscles or pain.
If you feel one of those sharp pains, laugh and keep doing what you were doing.
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The pain is real! The cause...well, that's complicated. ;) |
| CaliBack |
Posted - 04/09/2012 : 20:55:43
Yes, I have sharp pain while coughing or sneezing. My MRI shows nothing remarkable so I assume this is from tight muscles compressing stuff.
My pain is real and does not move around. It took three months after the original injury to be able to sit down without pain. Now I have a host of protective muscle issues. The original injury is clearly healed but my brain has not gotten the message.
This is the TMS part of it for me. |
| Sarnotic-nerve |
Posted - 04/09/2012 : 19:56:54
Didn't you say you had sharp pain when coughing too? Personally, I would get that looked at.
Otherwise, what you describe is your mind trowing doubts into your thoughts. And it's working.
Continue to do yoga and exercise because you enjoy it...it's good for you to enjoy things.
But don't do anything out of fear or doubt...
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The pain is real! The cause...well, that's complicated. ;) |
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