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pandamonium
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 Posted - 10/15/2008 : 03:12:31
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Just thought this experience may be of help to someone.
This weekend I started a downward spiral into pain, I could feel it coming on and was wondering what had caused it. By Sunday night it was awful and I could feel it was just about to "go" completely.
So I forced myself to sit down and mentally go through every thing that could be causing me stress or anger at the moment. I came up with not much so I went to bed and tried to forget it.
Monday morning I was 100% back to normal, no pain whatsoever. I couldn't believe it. And the only thing I can think of is that making time to sit down and sift through my emotions was enough to stall that episode of back pain, even though I didn't come up with an "AhHa" moment. IE I just confirmed to myself that there was an emotional cause rather than a physical one!
Has anyone else had an experince like that?
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debbette
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Posted - 10/15/2008 : 06:35:36
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Yes, I've yelled at my subconscious to "KNOCK IT OFF, I'M NOT FALLING FOR IT! IT'S NOT GOING TO WORK!" And thought about what may be bothering me, gotten angry, wrote down how furious I was, cried.... and it went away. Amazing!!!
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winnieboo
USA
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Posted - 10/15/2008 : 08:03:46
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Yes, I wrote about it on one of Skiz's threads last night. I averted a relapse by holding firm on a course to stay with my emotions and feelings. When I was going through the experience (my son was coming home from college for a visit), I wasn't sure what was happening, only that I was in physical pain...but I tried to stay at least with questions about my emotions: was it anticipation, excitement, dread--what?? Turned out it was all of the above and more: I worry about him, don't have control over what's happening in his life anymore, don't really KNOW what's going on--only what he tells me...I wonder if he's alright. The last two years of high school, he was a challenge and I worry about whether he's through with all of that...
By the end of the weekend, I had mentally processed a lot and reconnected with my son. I woke up Monday pain free.
Last night, I read something in Pema Chodron's "Start Where you Are" that hit home: Here's an excerpt:
"Resistance is really what causes the pain; more than the anger itself...it's resistance that causes the pain. Anything that begins to lighten up that resistance helps us to relax and open and celebrate. Sooner or later you will find yourself in a situation where you can't change the outer circumstances at all, and you realize it all comes down to how you relate to things---whether you continue to struggle against everything that's coming at you or you begin to work with things."
I'm learning that for me, so much of my pain is about not having control, or not knowing what's going on, or seeing what's going on and not liking it and my knee-jerk reaction is to step in an edit everything. This idea of opening and lessening resistance I think is great.
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Stopping a full blown TMS attack
