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| Albert |
Posted - 03/01/2005 : 10:06:38
While searching for something else, I just happened to find this site.
http://www.beanswers.com/pages/beangertherapy.htm |
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| Albert |
Posted - 03/02/2005 : 12:00:17
Hello Baseball:
The local news had a report on teenage cutters the other day. The people they spoke to said they do it because it makes emotional pain go away. It is hard to imagine somebody doing such a thing, but if we're controlled by our unconscious mind, I guess just about anything is possible.
In a way it is like reverse TMS. The mind's of cutters look for an outward diversion from conscious emotional pain, the mind's of TMS people look for an inward diversion from unconscious emotional pain.
One thing I noticed about a week or two ago, is that I was using the issue of TMS to keep my mind occupied. Almost as if it was a hobby. It seems as if I always have to have something to keep it occupied. An activity such as watching TV doesn't seem to be enough, because generally TV isn't interesting enough.
Since my pain has for the most part gone away (I still feel symptoms at times in a mild way), I decided that I need to stop thinking about TMS all of the time, and instead find another way to keep my mind occupied. It seems as if paying attention to the symptoms in any way gives them a reason for existing. Fortunately, as I've dug into my mind to find out what was bothering me, my spirituality has come back to life. I had repressed it for a while and even came up with a mental strategy that enabled me to not acknowledge its validity, so I could separate myself from some of the limiting ideas that went along with being a former cult member.
I now realize that the entirety of my spirituality doesn't need to be denied in order to isolate myself from the cult based ideas. In a way, I guess I needed to completely separate myself from spirituality for a while, so I could gain a fresh perspective.
Since you are interested in both spiritual matters and quantum mechanics, here's an internet article you might like.
http://www.quantum-metaphysics.com/essay.htm
Just in case the right page doesn't come up, select "Quantum Metaphysic," and you'll find an article called "Revolution in Common Sense or Quantum Metaphysics."
The reading might be a little slow at first, but it gets interesting after a few pages.
The article reminded me of a dream I had about 26 years ago when I was an atheist, and before I started having spiritual experiences. I dreamt one night that I was in space and was experiencing spiritual perfection. I understood that everything is going to work out. Here's the most interesting part of the experience. Before I had it, I was an atheist because I couldn't comprehend how there could be a such thing as higher spiritual truth. During the dream it was perfectly understandible how there could be such a thing. This understanding went away once I woke up. But the dream still felt "wonderful." Life never felt so good.
P.S. I still do the daily reminders in order to insure that I don't back slide, and I'm still working on getting over physical limitations. I believe that progress is being made. For example, it used to be that I didn't want to stand in one place because it hurt my back. This progressed to where I would tell myself "okay, my back is bugging me, but this is just TMS, so I'm not moving." I've noticed recently that I often stand in one place without even thinking about my back. I'm not one of the those speedy Gonzales recovers you read about, but I guess that's okay. In a way I think that existence has created TMS in order to get people to look at what is going on in their minds. The only problem is that a lot of people in the medical community have screwed things up by coming up with the wrong diagnosis.
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Originally posted by Baseball65
Hi Albert.
This is great! This is exactly what I already do,so now I know I am not a freak.
Interesting thing about the "cutters"...As a child I used to sterilize blades and cut OUT blemishes on my skin(did a reallly bad one on my leg that got horribly infected)....I completely forgot about that.I always threw it in the OCD file.....anyways
I used to play with the streams of blood,draw with it and whenever I was bored,start the wound(s) bleeding again.I took a pair of Nunn-Bush shoes and with a pen and blood,turned them into saddlshoes.I had accidentally bled on them,realized they were 'ruined' and decided they would be OK if the blood was even over the whole surface.
Before I read that article,I imagine I would have said that type of activity was merely attention seeking,however I did most of that stuff while I was alone!
I remember being at the beach and my buddy asking me why I had a gigantic piece of missing skin on my leg.I told him I had had an ingrown hair.He remarked that it was a good thing it wasn't on my face,or I might not have a nose anymore!
great article
Baseball65
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| Baseball65 |
Posted - 03/02/2005 : 05:02:35
Hi Albert.
This is great! This is exactly what I already do,so now I know I am not a freak.
Interesting thing about the "cutters"...As a child I used to sterilize blades and cut OUT blemishes on my skin(did a reallly bad one on my leg that got horribly infected)....I completely forgot about that.I always threw it in the OCD file.....anyways
I used to play with the streams of blood,draw with it and whenever I was bored,start the wound(s) bleeding again.I took a pair of Nunn-Bush shoes and with a pen and blood,turned them into saddlshoes.I had accidentally bled on them,realized they were 'ruined' and decided they would be OK if the blood was even over the whole surface.
Before I read that article,I imagine I would have said that type of activity was merely attention seeking,however I did most of that stuff while I was alone!
I remember being at the beach and my buddy asking me why I had a gigantic piece of missing skin on my leg.I told him I had had an ingrown hair.He remarked that it was a good thing it wasn't on my face,or I might not have a nose anymore!
great article
Baseball65 |
| moose1 |
Posted - 03/01/2005 : 20:22:15
Thanks, Albert, for this article. I've been reading Facing the Fire and learning how to do my homegrown anger release therapy. I'm surprised at how challenging it can be to actually work up the anger enough to flip out on a pillow or scream like a maniac in the car...unless, of course, something during the course of the day has pissed me off and is really fresh. I'm more interested in expunging the "old junk," and it can be pretty hard sometimes to feel those emotions and work them out.
I play squash, and lately I've been putting a few faces and names on the ball as I play. This works a little too well, however, because I find that I get exhaused much more quickly when I do this because squash is non-stop sprinting, and so while I'm expending my usual cache of energy, I'm also bleeding off some of that anger. The combination is very tiring.
So I'm looking forward to softball season when I can imagine some personal offender's face on the ball as it leaves the pitcher's hand. I'm curious to see if my slugging percentage goes up!
Mooose |
| tennis tom |
Posted - 03/01/2005 : 19:37:32
Thanks for that site Albert, it was an interesting article and relates to TMS well. It offers a way to relieve tension before it builds into TMS psychogenic pain. |
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