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| shawnsmith |
Posted - 12/28/2013 : 07:07:02
Massage
Chiropractic adjustments
Knee, elbow and back supports
Special shoe inserts
Ice or heat treatments
Anti-inflammatory products
Acupuncture
Physical Therapy
Repeated medical examinations - MRI's & x-rays
Stretching exercises aimed at fixing a tight or
misaligned body
Searching for new information and treatments
Internet/Message Board blogging
TMS or Chronic Pain Help/Support Forums
As long as you continue to try and fix your body
by physical means you will remain in pain. As long as
you continue to search outside of yourself for a cure
you will keep the pain strategy in your life. This includes
thinking about other treatments and participation on
internet message boards. It even means to stop rereading
Sarno for the umpteenth time hoping for the
subconscious effect to take hold.
If you accept this diagnosis then investigate your
inner self. Demonstrate to this pain disorder that you
are in control and that you know exactly what is going
on with this distraction strategy. Talk to yourself, talk to
the pain symptoms. When you notice a pain symptom
immediately address yourself. “Thank you for signaling me
to become aware. I don’t need you anymore I know what is going
on”. Now use your inner questioning to investigate what
is going on with your thoughts, feelings, personality
traits and life situations. This sincere investigation will
render the pain symptoms useless because you have
defeated the distraction strategy.
--- monte hueftle |
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| shawnsmith |
Posted - 01/02/2014 : 18:08:15
Get it out of your mind that you are going to stop your pain by just reading a book. And get it out of your head that as
soon as you discover your repressed emotions your pain
will end. Stop waiting for someone or something to
come along and cure you. It is not going to happen
within this pain disorder that way. This is a chronic pain
disorder caused by chronic behavior and thought
patterns that are generating inner tension and repressing
emotions. Realize that only you can reverse these
patterns. -- Monte Hueftle |
| shawnsmith |
Posted - 01/02/2014 : 08:06:19
Monte Hueftle Update - May 6th 2009
Hello Everyone,
Time to take a break from all of this Think Psychological, Think Clean, and redirecting of thoughts and behaviors.
This break, if you practice it, can be the most significant and efficient treatment for reversing your physical pain disorder.
Keep it Simple!
If I could communicate only one key to reversing this pain disorder to you, it would be this: Keep it simple and be present.
Where is your Attention?
1. The past. Reliving things we messed up. Being self-conscious about something we did. Wishing we could have something back
that is gone. Living in memories of the past. Being angry about things done to us. Feeling guilty about things we have done.
2. The future. Worrying about things we need to get done or need to have happen. Creating tension about a big event coming
up. Being anxious that things might go wrong, or that we might miss, or that we may mess up. Hoping for new treatment. Dreaming of
great things to come, so that when they do we can start living.
3. The present. What is happening right now, at this moment. What we are doing/experiencing right now.
What’s wrong with focusing on the past or future?
If you are experiencing physical pain in your body that is being created by inner stress/tension/anxiety, much of this is happening when
your thoughts are in the past or in the future. Most anger, guilt and resentment are in the past. Most of your worry/anxiety is in the
future. You are being self-conscious and pleasing now, but isn't this because of something that happened in the past or that you are
trying to control in the future?
What is the benefit of being present or mindful now?
1. You create less inner stress and tension.
2. You reduce significantly your repression or restricting thoughts/behaviors.
3. Being present is experiencing now without the old, chronic patterns holding us back.
Back to Simple
Start with the simple more mindless activities in your life. Brushing your teeth, taking a shower, eating, walking up steps, driving to
work, standing in line at the market, having a casual conversation and exercising. Instead of having your thoughts go into worry,
anger, pleasing and complaining...be as focused and present in whatever it is you are doing. Lose yourself in the brushing of your
teeth, count your steps as you walk, follow your breath while waiting in a line somewhere, truly engage in your conversation with
someone, be in your exercise activity--your body, movement, breath instead of worry or anger thoughts.
The Key
Just start practicing being more present in whatever you are doing and less thinking about everything else. Keep it simple, be present
and practice this.
The Benefit
I hope you get this, I mean really get this. This simple practice of being present is a big, huge deal to get you out of pain. When you
are being present now you are not creating inner stress and tension and you are not repressing emotional energy. You are not
communicating tightness/restriction to your nervous system. You are creating openness and allowing. It really is that simple and it
really is powerful and effective for reversing physical pain disorders caused by inner stress/tension/anxiety.
Many of you think that there has to be more to it than this. There isn't! Keep it simple and practice.
Stay the Course,
Monte Hueftle
www.runningpain.com |
| shawnsmith |
Posted - 01/01/2014 : 04:57:07
When you are focusing on pain, on treatments, or on the struggle of
ending this pain strategy you are keeping it very alive and
active in our life. |
| icelikeaninja |
Posted - 12/29/2013 : 16:59:20
Damn this is good
**Sure I can lay down on a bed of nails and not have pain but why am I having back pain when laying down on a soft mattress? |
| RageSootheRatio |
Posted - 12/29/2013 : 08:33:08
Thanks, Shawn. I appreciate your starting this thread and particularly your highlighting this passage: (emphasis added for my own benefit!)
quote:
In one of his books he writes that, "it is your behaviors and
chronic thought patterns that are igniting and
maintaining pain and other symptoms. And it is
redirecting and switching out of these old chronic
patterns and replacing them with new patterns that will
reverse this disorder, allow us to experience emotional
energy and eliminate pain symptoms. The
more that you use pain as a signal to look outside of
yourself the more you keep this disorder alive within
you. The more you remain in thought patterns that are
repressing or restricting or non-allowing, the more you
are creating inner tension and stress and generating
pain. The more you then try to figure this all out and
analyze it and search some more and talk about it and
question it and create doubt and fear the more you keep
it alive and active within your body."
Thanks again !! |
| shawnsmith |
Posted - 12/29/2013 : 08:17:26
Thoughts we habitually participate in which impede progress:
I want this pain to go away.
How am I going to get rid of this
pain?
I’m tired of being in pain.
If I can just figure out how to fix my body then my life would be okay.
I don’t want to be in this pain.
Why am I in this pain? Is it my age—I am getting older?
Maybe I should be stretching more…Maybe I’m over-training my
body.
I have to get this fixed.
I have to find someone to fix my
body.
I don’t want to be in this pain.
I’m tired of being in pain.
Ijust want to feel good again,
It isn’t fun living this way. Is this
really stress related? I can’t control my thoughts.
Maybe if I didn’t have this pain I could focus better.
Hardly anyone I know can control their thoughts. They can’t do this either.
I know some of my pain is stress related but some of it is old injury, I’m sure of that.
I’m tired of being in pain.
How can I stop worrying when my body is hurting all the time?
I can’t do this.
I know I should but I can’t.
There has to be a better, easier way. |
| shawnsmith |
Posted - 12/29/2013 : 07:07:19
Please visit his website at runningpain.com. Lost of material there.
In one of his books he writes that, "it is your behaviors and
chronic thought patterns that are igniting and
maintaining pain and other symptoms. And it is
redirecting and switching out of these old chronic
patterns and replacing them with new patterns that will
reverse this disorder, allow us to experience emotional
energy and eliminate pain symptoms...........The
more that you use pain as a signal to look outside of
yourself the more you keep this disorder alive within
you. The more you remain in thought patterns that are
repressing or restricting or non-allowing, the more you
are creating inner tension and stress and generating
pain. The more you then try to figure this all out and
analyze it and search some more and talk about it and
question it and create doubt and fear the more you keep
it alive and active within your body." |
| gigalos |
Posted - 12/28/2013 : 12:24:22
Hi Shawn,
I agree but not with 'massage'. The power of touch is incredible and if you do it purely for relaxation, then it can only help...
The forums are great too, if you use them for the right cause and with moderation. Sometimes a story by someone else can trigger the release of emotions in you, that you didn't know the existence of before. If you use it to keep poking to prove to yourself that TMS is a real thing, then it won't work. The more you learn, the less you know.
Shawn, you posted a link earlier about Monte. I can't be bothered to listen to a podcast, no offense, but what I read seems a bit hostile towards the "TMS-industry" ;) . quote:
This is a Free audio podcast: Features - The Real Cause of TMS, How to address TMS equivalent symptoms And more proof that TMS is not a Deeply Repressed Emotions Syndrome and Why the TMS professional community wants you to believe it is!
Can you enlighten me a bit about Monte's ideas about TMS treatment and the different practitioners' methods? |
| stevep |
Posted - 12/28/2013 : 12:18:49
Nice post. I will say however that I love a good massage. Just for overall feeling good. A therapeutic massage pinpointing an area on your body that is in chronic pain may be a bad idea, but getting a massage doesn't have to be. We don't need to give up all things that feel good. I also enjoy acupuncture for relaxation. |
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