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Hi Mermaid, when too strong a negative event happened in our life, tms symptoms will appear. We often made the mistake of feeling sorry for ourselves and we keep asking: "why me? why is this happened to me?". Don't do that, don't feel sorry for yourself. You have to realize that what happened to your body is perfectly normal. It would be very NOT normal if one experience divorce, abuse,.... and not having any mind body syndrome. You have to come to a realization that it is OK to have symptoms. It is a good sign that you have symptoms, that tell you that your body is function "normally". Once you realize that the symptoms were caused by extreme emotional changes or chronic stress in your life, and you only need to endure it until you are able to get your life back in balance then symptoms will cease.
The next mistake all long time tmser's made is: "we FEAR our symptoms", we don't realize that our symptoms have emotional origin, we mistakenly thought there is something "wrong" with our body. We thought some thing "invade" our body. We FEAR what those symptoms will lead to. We fear the back pain will lead to permanent nerve damage. We FEAR the headache is from a tumor that the doctor somehow missed, we FEAR our CFS, our Fibromyalgia, our lime disease... are incurable and we will live a shi..ty life for the rest of our life. That FEAR thought is what keep tms alive. That fear thought is what continue to produce all those stress hormones and tighten our muscle, tensing our body, restricting our blood flow.... and continue to produce symptoms.
So our main goal is to get rid of all those FEARFUL thoughts and live life as if our life is perfect. (it is perfect! it function exactly the way it was designed to function).
So try to come up with one "FEAR free week" and you will see wonderful changes to your body.
No fear, no pain. Don't allow any fear thoughts to enter your mind.
When one read Sarno's book, one believe in his explanation, believe in his diagnosis, believe it when he said there is nothing wrong with your body, it is just some pain causes by blood flow restriction.... one loose the fear and one healed.
Dr. Claire Weekes said it is not the fear of the symptoms that is bad, it is the fear of what the symptoms mean to us that is keeping the symptoms alive. All those "what if?" question in our head is what keep tms stay with us.
So try to keep your mind free from FEAR thoughts and you will be cure. Guaranty.
It is impossible to cure from mind body syndrome if we still fear it.
Hope we all heal.
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