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iyusaf
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 Posted - 09/07/2004 : 11:06:21
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| Sarno writes that unconsious rage underlies TMS. I wonder if anger is the only or even dominant underlying emotion for all TMS sufferers. It would seem that other repressed emotions like fear, grief, helplessness and despair may be more dominant for some. The focus on rage seems to oversimplify the human experience. |
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Dave
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Posted - 09/07/2004 : 13:52:03
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It is important to understand that the unconscious rage that Sarno talks about is not the same as conscious emotions that we feel, such as anger.
Repressed emotions, our personality and, perhaps most importantly, the pressure we put on ourselves, all contribute to the pool of unconscious rage. Think of it as a child that lives inside of us that is in a blind rage. This is rage that we cannot feel because it is unconscious.
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iyusaf
USA
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Posted - 09/07/2004 : 14:53:51
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Hi Dave, thanks for your post.
Yes, I agree with your reading of Sarno. Please note the feelings I refer to in the above post are all repressed feelings not conscious feelings.
My statement is simply that perhaps other repressed emotions like grief, horror and despair are equivalent to rage in their ability to cause TMS.
Could it be that rage does not have a monopoly in our unconscious?
(I also view rage as an extreme, sometimes explosive, form of anger whether repressed or in our awareness. I often use the two interchangeably.)
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Dave
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Posted - 09/07/2004 : 20:16:05
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I prefer to think of "unconscious rage" as a metaphor for the pool of repressed emotions that accumulate in our unconscious, that our mind is desparate to keep us from feeling.
Any emotion repressed adds to the pool. Of course the ingredients are different for everyone. Any time we avoid facing our true feelings, they get added to the pool.
So "rage" doesn't cause TMS; repressed emotions cause "unconscious rage" which threatens to come to consciousness, hence the need for the TMS distraction.
The terminology is nothing more than a model for us to comprehend the concept. I believe the details of what is really going on beneath the surface is far too complicated us to fathom. |
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Rage and Other Emotions
