Article to give you hope

Wow, that's pretty amazing. I seem many of the same elements that we use here. Education, overcoming fear, resuming physical activities, and taking one's life back. It's amazing how many ways people achieve success.

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One of the most important things in TMS healing, I think, is finding a source of real joy in one's life. No matter what else is going on, we can all open ourselves to that, and doing so can change everything.

Many people advocate this type of thing, including Steve Ozanich, who says it particularly eloquently. Somewhere he wrote, "As I've said the top mistake I see is people trying to heal. They should be going out to get happy, to connect, to have fun, to invigorate their curiosity again, to feel for someone else, to expand instead of contracting. To relax in love."

There is a deep idea here - we don't become happy by focusing on what makes us unhappy. We become happy by focusing on what makes us happy.

I sometimes illustrate this concept with the two wolves story:


Feed the happy emotions, not the ones that feed into your reservoir of fear and rage!

I think that this fits into the idea of competitive neuroplasticity very nicely. We can't beat our fear/rage/pain by focusing on it. We can only beat it by focusing on other things, whether those are the visualizations that cured people in the article or simply the things that bring us joy.