Recent content by bobbarr

My main pet/mold allergy symptom is sinus inflammation and headache. It drives me nuts. If I sleep in a house or hotel where there have been pets or mold I snore like crazy, get headaches, and wakeup feeling like I barely slept. I am currently on vacation and the hotel room has definitely had...

I've been having a lot of success slowly curing my chronic pain with a mix of journaling and somatic tracking. But I'm in the middle of a huge flareup. Does anyone have any advice for how to nip a flareup in the bud? More somatic tracking while in a flareup always makes it worse.

I actually saw a decent shift today after somatic tracking but only after getting in touch with a difficult emotion that I've been avoiding thinking about. I think I'm seeing what I need to do, which is a mix of somatic tracking and journaling (plus the behavioral changes - less phone, less...

1. Would you mind sharing what specifically you did to cure your sciatica and tennis elbow under Sarno and your CFS under PRT? 2. The Way Out makes no mention whatsoever of repressed emotions. When you did PRT, did you address them at all?

I have done a few somatic tracking sessions and symptoms are flaring up afterward, but eventually die down. I did one about an hour for 10 minutes. But now I’m worse than ever. Symptoms are majorly flaring and my emotions are revved up. I suspect that is temporary like previous sessions and...

I just got done reading The Way Out by Alan Gordon. I’m confused. He makes no mention of journaling or of thinking psychological. Schechter and Schubiner require journaling. In fact, it’s basically the main method of treatment. Sarno requires “thinking psychological” - whenever one becomes...

I have been been doing breathing meditations for 15 years and it hasn't kept the pain at bay or from appearing. Also open awareness and body scan meditations. Granted, not always as regularly as I should have. Just mindfulness is certainly not enough in my experience, and David Schechter...

What were your symptoms and how did you resolve them?

How long ago was your injury/herniation?

I am very into mindfulness and self-compassion, so your suggestion is not foreign to me. And your suggestion of how I am awfulizing my pain, spot on, as I've learned from my CBT sessions. But I've not found a great way to apply mindfulness, self compassion, CBT to pain. That's why I'm back...

I have made huge strides, having come to believe years ago that my various aches and pains are TMS. I have seen first hand how applying Sarno's techniques cured my neck pain. In ways it was like magic. So I am a believer, but my faith is wavering because of some recent events. There is a...