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| donnroc |
Posted - 02/20/2014 : 11:23:21
I LOVE TMS !
I am experiencing lower back tension, knee pain, even some finger pain.
What I love is that I know these are all TMS. I'll I have to do is look at my feelings. I have a lot of work and domestic related anxiety,currently which I know will be resolved. The cool thing is: 15 years ago this would have taken me out! I would have been running from one healer (doctor) to the next trying to figure this out. I thank God I have a history with TMS that has shown me over and over again how my mind creates pain as a distraction to the uncomfortable things that come up in life. I'm starting to think everything is TMS the only exception being acute pain which Sarno says will heal itself within 6 to 8 weeks.
For those of you just stating out on this journey.... HANG IN THERE
It is all in the mind (and beliefs)
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| fritzschantz |
Posted - 03/28/2014 : 06:04:22
WavySoul, I have for many years been a student of Joel Goldsmith's Infinite Way - which could also be described as a "very powerful non-dual spirituality of the Western mystical variety". I have not yet been able to combine that with TMS treatment. I just discovered Sarno's "healing Back Pain" 2 weeks ago. Read the book in one day and within 3 days was pain free. Then 3 days later, sitting on the bus in relaxed meditation - WHAM - Big stab of spasm pain in the left middle of my back. Usually my pain is upper back lower neck. So I know this is TMS because it moved and struck without any physical cause. I re-read the treatment chapter and psychology chapter. Have not had success so far this time, except that I have not taken any medication or tried in any way to treat the symptoms because I don't want to feed this false appearance. TMS diagnosis through reading Dr. Sarno's book makes more sense to me than anything any doc has ever told me about my back. Meditation practice has lessened my symptoms over the years, but never cured the appearance of dis-ease. I am completely on board with treating my TMS, but still have much to learn about how to do that.
Fritz Schantz
Totally Psyched about TMS |
| Wavy Soul |
Posted - 03/25/2014 : 23:59:25
Yes, I love TMS, too. It sure beats the alternative - an endless, downward spiral of anxiety and symptoms, creating more anxiety and symptoms. I know people who have been taken out by this. I'm grateful that, weirdly, I feel I am getting younger as I get older. It was such a nightmare through my 30s and 40s, feeling I had these strange illnesses that I couldn't resolve, and that were getting worse.
In my 50s, I discovered the TMS approach, SO different than the Louise Hay-type psycho approaches that had NOT been working, and had just made me feel made wrong or a failure - a double failure, both ill and unable to heal my own life.
But the TMS approach, combined, in my case, with some very powerful non-dual spirituality of the Western mystical variety that basically says that illness is not real and not to give it any attention (and then it will heal), has saved me. I'm still having some symptoms, but then again, my mother just died, and so many other family stresses were relived through the process of her death.
But the difference between symptoms I fear and symptoms I don't, because I know they are TMS is:
1) duration, by a factor of about 10 to the umpteenth power - meaning that what would last weeks or months may only last hours now
2) seriousness: I DON'T TAKE ALL THIS SYMPTOM STUFF SERIOUSLY!
Yeah, I love it.
Love is the answer, whatever the question |
| Carolyn |
Posted - 03/03/2014 : 21:07:34
I could not agree with you more! I love that I KNOW about TMS and that that puts me in control. I'm back checking in here with my latest incarnation of TMS but just looking for affirmation in hopes of moving it out a little more quickly. I know it will go - so there is no fear. I have learned to welcome the feelings that come up when the pain goes.
Carolyn |
| icelikeaninja |
Posted - 03/02/2014 : 11:30:32
I love tms because it means nothing is wrong
**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? |
| donnroc |
Posted - 02/27/2014 : 15:28:05
Great idaea... I think your right acute pain can lead to TMS so why not nip it in the bud !
Thanks For Your reply |
| njoy |
Posted - 02/22/2014 : 11:19:54
I love your attitude and am working to acquire it, myself. I do get it that w/o problems to stir me into action I would not do much in life. Problems are essential.
Thanks for your post, donnroc. You know what, I even find TMS techniques useful for acute pain -- no point in adding anxiety and fear and so on to the mix (or at least as little tms-sy stuff as possible).
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