Recent content by EmmaB

Thanks, Walt! That's very reassuring. I'm convinced all my pains have their origins in my repressed emotions. The evidence: (1) I can get rid of the pain by yelling at it to release its grip and then imagining the blood flowing to the painful area (but not at night); (2) I realized that the...

On Day 3 we are supposed to write about exercise. I had bilateral knee replacements about a year ago so I am still doing strengthening exercises with a thera-band every morning. I questioned whether I was continuing to over-emphasize the structural rather than the emotional by doing these...

Thanks! Just spent three weeks in Zanzibar with my son who is a laugh riot and I laughed pretty continuously -- but my knees still hurt. My husband (who makes me laugh) and I just watched Annie Hall again and we laughed throughout, but I still needed to shift my position several times during...

Thanks, Mellie! I will try a gentler approach the next several nights since the yelling isn't working.

I was away for three weeks and had many excuses for not continuing with my TMS program, but now I'm back. There's overwhelming evidence that my pain is caused by my subconscious "protecting" me from unwanted feelings and during the day I can stop my pain pretty instantaneously by telling my...

Thank you, mathteacher and Alan, for this question and response. This was exactly my question: I had bilateral knee replacement surgery 11 months ago and am struggling to recover. There is plenty of evidence that much if not all of my orthopedic woes are due to TMS (and the evidence continues...