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| plum |
Posted - 02/02/2013 : 02:13:10
12. Be active if possible (not for overcoming your illness, but to be comfortable with your body) and do things you were afraid to do gradually, not to challenge, but just to do them. (I.e. if I play soccer and there is back pain, I will not think of using my back more or strain with it more to get it "used" to activity. I would just play soccer, and if in pain, just accept it and use affirmations if necessary). As you get into the game, you'll probably forget about it. This activity can be slowly and gradually increased as not to increase the strain. You want to coerce you body back to normality. |
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| chickenbone |
Posted - 02/02/2013 : 17:24:23
I am happy to say that this is one of the easier ones for me. I pretty much stayed active most of the time I had (and sometimes still have) my pain. I would walk gingerly, sometimes be afraid, but was generally able to keep up my level of activity. I had to give up horseback riding several years ago at the insistence of my doctor and husband because of my osteoporosis (I never had pain while horseback riding). I couldn't risk a bad fall. I substituted aerobics, swimming and hiking. However this switch had nothing to do with my TMS. In fact, the refusal to give up activity is one of the things that made me think my pain had to be TMS. There was absolutely no connection between my level of activity and pain. Often, I had more pain when lounging around and less when physically active. |
| eric watson |
Posted - 02/02/2013 : 07:01:48
See were to do all the journaling so we can learn the repressions-
ok repressions are those stresses, worries, issues, etc....
that ya didn’t want to think about
they were suppressions then -now that
ya think you have forgotten about them
their called repressions- we have thousands of suppressions that
we turn to repressions every year because we
don’t want to think about them, these stay in our mind, bodies and accumulate.
I call it stacking-it’s like putting one negative charged thought on top of another till we get this one huge negative charged emotion that Dr. sarno called rage.
Now I know why it’s called rage!
After I understood the outcome to doing this bad habit of the try not thinking about it -issues- I was surprised at what I didn’t know-and how it could really harm me.
you mean my whole life I’ve been instilling all these negatively
charged emotions in my body by ignoring what I didn’t want to think about such as worries and stresses - now they have boiled, overflowed like a volcano-so I have pain here ,there and everywhere
Well what to do?
How do I release the emotional charge to the thoughts-most of which you have forgot about.
Sarno taught us to face our angers, anxieties and don’t fear the pain or anxiety and to think psychological-also ignore the pain.
I use a lot of methods to discharge a negative charged memory like affirmations that has calming effects and some Joseph Murphy uses in his books and see the facing is the cornerstone. All of these safe ways have helped for a while now.
This is the very center of what’s happening to our bodies while were in pain for 5-10 ,15-25 yrs
be active to start and re teach your brain that you’re in control now
Remember we have to wait till the pain re-sides
then and only when we understand this do we move forward with our walk to freedom
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| plum |
Posted - 02/02/2013 : 02:56:28
This key nicely exemplifies what may be defined as the 'tms time loop', (it is groundhog day after all), whereby we get so far and no farther. We wake the next day and the exhausting cycle begins again, the lynchpin of this hell being fear.
Fear of the pain. Fear of making the pain worse. Fear of doing anything that may make it worse.
When you don't have back pain, the advice to exercise and move can seem tangential. However this key is inviting us to reinhabit our bodies. If nothing else I really need to get fit and get in shape and stop using pain as an excuse not to.
My maxim here is Softly, Softly, Catchee Monkey. And indeed there are soft signs of encouragement; baby green shoots are peaking through the earth, the mornings greet us with bright sunshine, the wheel of the year gently turns.
My intention is to walk everyday. I love walking. It's natural, mindful and soothing.
The nightmare does end. God bless everyone here who has healed and keeps reminding us of this. I appreciate you shaking me awake and pulling back the curtains to reveal the world awaiting. |
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