I've been having incredible tooth and jaw pain - for good reason. I just had 8 hours surgery on 16 teeth - am on liquid diet till crowns get put in + painkillers often.
This all happened just as I was about to give my first seminar on TMS, which I just finished - a week at a hot springs. It went off very well. I had people saying "that's not your body baby!" - their new "catch-phrase."
But I'm writing because since I was teaching from my own experience as well as from the Sarno material (and other), I had to tell the truth about my tooth pain. The stress of teaching for a week (being the mum and not having a mum) definitely brought it on more intensely. Then I had to look at how I came to have such dental trauma. It's a long story, involving some dentistry in Costa Rica that went wrong, and I went there to save thousands on some dentistry I urgently needed. But from another level I came to really see that I had unconsciously set up the whole Very Distracting Situation to handle waves of rage that are still moving through from my divorce and triggered by my father's death.
So I had to "fess up" about this to the group. This was what I most didn't want to do in my CFS days - admit that what I was experiencing was psychological, since they were already accusing me of this, but with no helpful way out. At beginning of our training week everyone's symptoms got worse - a kind of defense mechanism against being busted probably. By end of week everyone was having symptoms disappear.
Again I ask myself, is EVERYTHING TMS? I mean, this dental thing seems so innocent, and at this point is very real and I need to follow through. But I can clearly see how it could have been set up to help me not know how pissed I am deep down.
xx
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Yes, I confess, my "real" dental woes are TMS!
Posted - 11/13/2006 : 06:12:45
