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Becca
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 Posted - 12/01/2005 : 11:09:03
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Hi
I have been struggling to accept TMS as the cause of my neck pain for a few months now. My question is-when doing the work, is it necessary to identify the repressed emotion and its source. I find that when I am journaling about what is bothering me, I find that the pain gets worse. I think that I am sucha perfectionist that I put so much pressure on myself that sometimes journaling gets me anxious! It seems that I have better luck with relaxation and pain releif if I just take some deep breaths and rassure myself that I am ok. When I try to delve into my emotions I begin to think that I am a nutcase for developing this problem in teh first place. First I think that it is school, or my new career, or my boyfriend. But life is always presenting stressors, so I can't always eliminate the external source. Then that makes me think that all of this pain stems from my anxious presonality and my though processes. That makes me even more anxious because I then feel like I need to totally change everything about myself, which is an absolutely insurmountable task. At this point I feel like giving up. Maybe I am making this more difficult than it needs to be. How can you eliminate the pain without eliminating the source of the stress (isn't that what sarno says-that knowledge is the answer). |
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ralphyde
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Posted - 12/01/2005 : 13:21:20
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I think that frequently the repressed emotions trying to come to the surface are not current situations but childhood issues which are a source of repressed anger, such as parents' divorce, abuse, abandonment, shame, and things like that. According to that Newsweek article from a year and a half ago, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4767783/site/newsweek/ (near the end) Dr. Sarno asks you to review and list childhood issues which might have made you angry, and meditate on one of them for 15 minutes each day.
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miehnesor
USA
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Posted - 12/01/2005 : 18:45:54
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| Becca- You are not a nutcase because you have TMS! The idea of dialoging to yourself is to connect with your own internal feelings and reclaim feelings that have never really been felt. Dialoging helps you to focus on specific events in your present or past experience and sort out how you think and feel about things. Its a really valuable tool to reclaiming parts of yourself that you have not acknowledged and or felt. If you can connect with feelings through dialoging that is great but at this point don't worry about it if you don't. You don't want to be a perfectionist with this. Just do the work and let it take you in whatever direction it wants to go. Good luck and be patient with yourself. |
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finding the right balance
