Recent content by manny8888

Congratulations! I found that it was not just nervous thoughts that I was aware of but something way more deeper that wanted to prevent me from doing what I was about to do. I assume if you go way more deeper you will find some more insights. This is what I do at times as well. Had a spasm...

@Diana-M Thank you for the kind words. Already on it. Pre Dr. Sarno these spasms would have lasted a longer time. I am no longer scared of these. Doing much better already.

Has been 3 and a half years since my last update. From close to being broken physically in 2018 to being active the last 7 years. Now, as I sit and type this I am suffering from an other spasm. This is another part of the story and I am typing this out in case anyone reads and follows my story...

A three year journey update. In the first few months that followed my last post, I did tame the beast thanks to all your inputs (@Andy Bayliss, @Baseball65 ). I had sessions where my brain tried to give me pain all over my back but I successfully thwarted all its attempts. I have mostly been...

Thanks @Andy B for all the knowledge and the support. I don't know the road ahead but I feel better equipped to deal with it. I still get a feeling of the pain increasing at times and the brain threatening to spasm the back. I try to think psychological and keep it in check. I will continue to...

Thank you @Baseball65 for sharing your thoughts. I gained a lot by reading it. ALL of what you wrote resonated with me. Your thoughts were enlightening and immensely moving for me. I will stay aware. I am rethinking my perception of the injury. Definitely keeping a line open to my Inner...

I will try this for sure. Thanks again for your helpful words. I will await @Baseball65 's inputs as well. Thank you for your kind words Lainey. This is a fantastic forum and I am glad I found this group of people.

What if the younger self does not love who I have become now? Should I reassure him that I am there for him nevertheless. Thanks Andy. I feel this way too. Thank you for helping me bring this out. This is big for me. I will do this regularly from now. I will continue to write on how things...

I have had all sorts of pain - back, shoulder etc (attribute to TMS) that led to an obsession with what I eat. I grew up in a vegetarian family where I have seen 90 year olds thriving on a simple starch based diet eating copious amounts of dairy. I cut out gluten, dairy, sugar etc. I even saw...

Andy and Baseball65. I cannot express how thankful I am to you guys for weighing in. Baseball65 - You were spot on in pointing that out. I actually wrote about it and then deleted it. Not sure why. Perhaps for fear of jinxing the good things I have got going on in my life with regard to my...

Not yet. I feel like trying to tame a wild beast. I feel a tightness in the back. I ignore it and ask it to distract me with some RSI if it needs to. Occasionally, a pang of pain in the neck and arm. It tests me by sending a shot of pain in my mid back and then to the low back. I quickly...

I have had Tinnitus ever since I can remember. The every day noise just covers it up for me but if I sit inside a parked car with the doors shut the silence truly is deafening. A high pitched noise drowns me out. Since it happens in both the ears I kind of find it therapeutic to sit and listen...

Newbie to the forum as well. Just posted my account earlier if you would like to read that. What works for me on various occasions: At the onset of pain I would start to think about all the issues that I had been repressing. All the things in my life that stood against my vision of myself as a...

Hi, I am a newbie to the forum and many of what you said (save for the woman stuff since I am male :)) apply to me as well. I am an entrepreneur as well and I do have back pain and IBS together. I have achieved some relief from the pains following a few techniques that I posted on this forum. I...

Hi All, Wanted to share my experience with TMS. Around 18 years ago, I had a back issue. I was 20 years old at that time and attributed it to my bike riding and bad road conditions in my home country. I left for a graduate program in the US fearing the cold and what that would do to my back. A...