Recent content by Kevin Barry

Something that I have started to do that seems to be helping is I have been listening to TMS talks that I find on YouTube while I do my 30 minutes of Aerobic exercise every morning. I resisted doing this for a long time because I wanted to spend the time listening to things that were more...

Thanks for your reply. They are words I can use.

I just got hit with a bout of lower back pain after being TMS free for a long time and what I have been doing is listening to Sarno's books on a regular basis. I came across this passage from The Mindbody Prescription and it jumped out at me and thought it might help someone else. What stands...

I have terrible nerve pain also in my leg. I have been working with TMS for 10 months now. In the beginning the pain subsided enough for me to be able to function again which was a big relief and I am very grateful. Now it comes and it goes. Whenever it comes again my fear spikes and it becomes...

I try to make sure that I stay connected to the TMSwiki as that is the best reminder to help me always get back to the place where I need to be which is in a state of awareness of my TMS and any available recovery solutions that I need to work on. I try to keep in constant awareness that I am...

Thank you all for the discussion. Through some personal work that I have been doing recently there is a place that I have gotten to where I know that everything, no matter what, is going to be okay. I don't just believe, I know which is a place of real peace. However, this is not my default...

Sounds like you are doing a lot of good things and have the right attitude regarding TMS in terms of it being emotionally based. I don't have anything else to add other than I always have to remember to forget about the outcome and just do the work. Sort of like in the movie, "Field of Dreams" -...

I have found that my TMS and my brain is capable of coming up with a myriad of symptoms that are all based on fear. For me, many times I can trace it back to a fear of dying but ultimately it is just all fear. Just scared of livin' n 'fraid of dying kind of stuff that I thank my brain for...

Thank you for your post. I don't have any experience with imagery per se other than to believe it works. But what you are talking about seems like it could be a tool to use to work with TMS and I plan to try and use it. My philosophy with TMS and other challenges I have is that I try to use...

You've brought a lot of clarity to the "trick bag" of self loathing. TMS arises to protect me from feeling that I not only hate you whom I love, but hate myself for hating you. How could I be so despicable to hate someone I love? TMS might seem like a good trade off until I realize that the...

I am sure that most people know of the picture that when you look at it can either be the old lady or the young women depending on what you first see. And what you see is a result of the way that your brain is programmed to see or in other words your neural patterns are activated. But after...

With me it is all about fear. When I think of it fear is more real than the pain because when I get rid of the pain I still have the fear. I must remember that getting rid of the pain is not getting rid of the fear. After I get rid of the pain I have to continually fight on a daily basis to get...