This sounds like what Sarno explains as "conditioned response" like the bell ringing causes a physical response (salivating) in the Pavlo's dog experiment. He used the example of a person that had to load and unload a truck all day without pain, but when he leaned over to shave in the morning he would get a terrible pain in his back. If you unconsciously expect pain when you do a task (or relax in your case), your mind will certainly use it as a trigger to induce the pain. Another bit of wisdom he mentions about conditioned responses is that for every person that has a respone to a certain action there is surley a person who has the exact oppsiite respones for the same symptoms.
--Some people must sleep in on a soft bead and others a rock hard bed or they will get back pain.
--Some people get a pain if they sit for more than a few minutes and must stand up others must sit after standing for a few minutes
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MikeScott--
I absolutely agree and am trying hard to break the conditioning. I have no doubt since it's been so many months now, I have that conditioned response. I recently had my husband and I switch sides of the bed, which helped a little. And I am trying to sit for a little longer at a time as I feel better.
I think I may have stumbled onto something that may be behind this last night that I am going to post as a separate topic to share so it doesn't get lost in this thread.
I was quite inspired by watching the 20/20 interview mentioned and listening to the podcast yesterday mentioned in another post. |
throwing in the towel
Posted - 07/20/2007 : 12:16:47
