Recent content by jjbuckler

For me, the empowerment comes from not giving in. I try not to alter my day, or change what I need to do for the day. I try to go through the day as if I am not in pain. Its not easy, to be sure. And there are days when its bad enough that self-care is my only option. A quick example...

This. So often I find my brain locked by simple decisions. This creates a grinding feeling in my brain, and often a sensation of tightness in my shoulders. I always want to make the right decision. The PERFECT decision. And if one is not clearly better than the other its worse. I spend my...

I'm not speaking for Alan, but I always take "attend to yourself" to simply mean: pay attention to yourself/take care of yourself. In this case your thoughts/feelings/pain. In TMS we tend to run away from our feelings and anxiety, or try to pretend it doesn't exist. We don't take care of...

Wow. I accidentally did a version of this yesterday morning. I have noticed that if I stay in bed past a certain time, my body starts to hurt. Slowly at first but it gets worse as time goes on, until I get up. When I woke up, I didn't want to get out of bed. It was my day off and I wanted...

Over the last few days, it seems like the stuff that Alan is writing and speaking about was done specifically FOR ME. Its resonating with me in ways that few TMS things have (though The Great Pain Deception comes close). For example , this morning I woke up with to my typical morning ritual...

Thanks for the kind words Walt. I have in fact given up googling symptoms. When I realized I was spending hours staring at trigger point diagrams, and googling symptoms, I knew something had to give. It was the first step I took after reading Sarno. John

I first started with upper back pain in June of last year. This would come and go, with no real rhyme or reason. Sometimes massage would help, but only for a time. Then in October the lower back pain started, along with pain in my shoulders and neck. After that came the fatigue and spasms...