"Emotional injuries activate the same parts of the brain as does a physical injury"~Dr H. Schubiner

"It turns out that our brains are constructed so that emotional injuries activate the same parts of the brain as does a physical injury and most doctors have no idea that that's true." ~ Dr Howard Schubiner

"The brain causes what we think and so we think that our thoughts are ours but our thoughts are actually our brain's... they are not actually reality... if people can begin to understand... that thoughts are just what our brain is throwing at us... if you can begin to step back from your thoughts and see that your thoughts are driving reactions in your body... that is an amazing process that is sometimes the key to getting past this." ~ Dr Howard Schubiner

The above and some other imo nuggets of gold are in the following video, so I thought I'd post it up...

 

I do love Dr. Schubiner!

 

El vídeo es bueno: explica todo lo que sucede, por qué existe el dolor crónico y los diversos síntomas que puede generar el cerebro. Pero al final, menciona que la forma más rápida de curarse es simplemente vivir la mejor vida posible, y eso me parece un poco simplista.
Creo que eso podría aplicarse más a un dolor manejable, pero en el caso de este dolor constante y profundo, no estoy segura de cuán realista sea. El Dr. Hasma, al igual que la Terapia de Reprocesamiento del Dolor, habla de una forma más directa de desaprender el dolor: básicamente, no reaccionar ante él con miedo o emociones, sino responder con una sensación de seguridad. Creo que ese enfoque me resulta un poco más útil.
Sin embargo, sigue siendo muy difícil, y el cerebro puede tardar un tiempo indeterminado en cambiar; es incierto. Hoy estoy sufriendo mucho dolor y solo quería comentar tu publicación. Ahora mismo, sinceramente, solo quiero que pase el día y, con suerte, llegar al día siguiente.

 

It’s great Dr Schubiner is spreading this stuff. It’s just a shame that these ideas are so foreign to us westerners that it takes our world imploding to stumble upon them. That quote of his are core ideas of eastern philosophies like Buddhism or Hinduism and I’m sure several others. There is severe systemic cultural rot for many of us in the west and we all collectively and individually pay the price. Sigh, what I would I have given for someone to help me detach from my thoughts when I was a kid. Maybe a few minutes of intentional breathing instead of reciting the pledge of allegiance during school, lol. Sorry to get political!

 

He said it's the "quickest" way but that doesn't mean necessarily 'fast'! Your recovery will be quicker if you get on with your life as best you can despite your symptoms, finding little bits of joy where you can, like the example he gave of the woman who at the beginning of her road to recovery could only move her hands so she decided to enjoy dancing her fingers to music, and from there she gradually did more and more things and fully recovered.

And, if you remember from the video, he actually says that the recovery process is simple but hard to do. One of the reasons it's hard is because we get in our own way — despairing, catastrophising, doubting the symptoms are mind/body, etc. We believe our scary thoughts, but, as Dr Schubiner says in the video, what we need to understand is that our thoughts are not really our thoughts, they are our brain's— they’re what the brain is throwing at us. He says, "if you can begin to step back from your thoughts and see that your thoughts are driving reactions in your body... that is an amazing process that is sometimes the key to getting past this."

Getting on with our life as best we can despite our symptoms is what Dr Sarno advised as well; it was his number one instruction — and that advice has helped and worked for thousands of people to recover!

It's completely realistic! My pain wasn't “more manageable pain” — it included "constant and deep pain" plus a load of other profoundly debilitating symptoms for good measure. I was totally bedridden for over 18 months because of it and housebound for many years. But, eventually, I found out about mind/body work and followed the advice to get on with my life as best I could despite the symptoms. I had to do it in 'baby steps' because my symptoms were so disabling... and now I’m no longer bedridden or housebound, and functioning really well. The success stories sub-forum has numerous other people on there who were badly affected by their symptoms.

I completely understand that when pain feels relentless, it’s easy to believe your case is different or somehow worse — I felt like that too at one point. But I learned that this belief itself keeps us feeling stuck. No one with mind/body/TMS symptoms is an exception to getting better and losing their symptoms, even if it feels that way.

Carry on listening to and taking notice of what Dr Hansma advises because he's great and also because Dr Schubiner is actually saying the same thing as Dr Hansma (Dr Schubiner is also a proponent of Pain Reprocessing Therapy, he says so in the video)... Throughout the video, Dr Schubiner actually says that in order to recover we have to show the brain we’re safe, because it thinks we’re not — it thinks we're in danger. And — guess what? — the major way to do that is by getting on with life as best we can despite the symptoms.

Yes, that’s true, none of us knows how long it will take. But we always have a choice about how to think about our situation — either negatively or with hope. If you keep on reminding yourself that it could take a long time, then what you focus on is likely to be what happens. Like I said in my other recent reply to you in another thread, thinking this way serves as an additional barrier or wall to get over on your recovery journey; in that respect it's you getting in your own way.