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Thanks Diana :)

Can someone explain it to me please? I'm reading Skizzik's post in Day 26 of the Structured Education program and he mentions it twice.

I would have to say it's the encouragement to post about our progress and the helpful and supportive comments from the members here who reply to our posts! I missed almost 2 weeks of the program. I was discouraged and things spiraled (more pain=less sleeep=less time for this work=more...

I've told a lot of people I have TMS. My girlfriend, my friends Celina and Dave and Tom and Stan and Alex and Josh and Elissa and Colleen and my girlfriend's parents. Why? All these people know I have been struggling with shoulder and neck and arm pain for a long time and I update them about...

Yes! I read the page on affirmations and have been doing exactly that (positive head talk)! I really like it :)

I remain positive about my treatment. As I was Journaling today I would stop and think about what emotions I was feeling if I felt any painful sensations in my body. Recently I am hopeful about positive affirmations and positive self speak and have been practicing this. There are times when I...

Thanks Jan, that absolutely helps! Yes I did do the Unsent Letter exercise. That's a really interesting point about living 3 times longer. Certainly the reservoir is going to start to overflow if it was only meant to hold enough for 1/3rd of our lives. I started doing Journaling (which I...

I think I have been overly critical of myself lately - but not just lately, for a long time. The way I do this is by telling myself I'm not good enough at things (guitar, skateboarding, film-making) and telling myself I haven't spent enough time practicing these things or haven't organized my...

Thanks Ellen! That's really great information about the difference between repression/suppression! I actually read something in John Sarno's book The Divided Mind the other day that had me thinking about this and really influenced what I wrote about anger . On page 112 he talks about someone...