MicheleRenee, Imo, the non-stop thinking about what caused our TMS, what drives it and how it comes and goes is actually what feeds it.
I beat suicidal PN pain just by going on living life and not giving a damn about the pain and it overtime disappeared.. imo what drives TMS is a thought. The more you think about it the more you fuel it.
I think the whole TMS thing works as this:
negative thoughts -> create fear/internal pressure -> those in turn activate the danger signal (fight/flight/freeze) -> Fight or flight create TMS or keep tms symptoms -> those symptoms feed on preoccupation -> preoccupation creates negative thoughts.
Vicious never ending cycle.
Imo that is why balto tells everyone, fuck everything go live the life no matter how bad the pain is. I cannot agree more.. if you think about it, by living life at it's fullest you dont have much time to be "in your head" hence thinking, analyzing, monitoring (creating internal pressure/fear).
That is why my symptoms before discovering Sarno's work would always disappear or drastically reduce when I was out with friends and distracted by a conversation. Because when you are perfectly distracted, you dont feed the above cycle.
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