Recent content by Marian

Joel, I have to agree. Those are the three steps I've employed once I had a clear understanding of TMS. Since then it has been a matter of working with my mind in the present moment in such a way that I am aligning to a new future. It's pretty freakin' mind-blowing.

Thanks so much, Eric. Just yesterday evening I had another weird and intense flare-up, this time with lower back pain, and once again, I was able to look at what was going on (this time, a stressful week was finally over) and get it to release within about three hours. Each time I think, well...

Thanks, Walt... I will do that!

Thanks Eric. Every day I learn something new. I am sooooo looking forward to posting my success story. I don't know when it will happen, but I can imagine the feeling. Thanks for all you do. You are an ever present source of love and kindness.

Hiawatha, it's interesting when food gets involved in TMS. Quite a challenge. But I think you're right, it's not the food. I was convinced that I shouldn't eat dairy or wheat, but the truth is that all I had going on was an unconscious negative association with those foods. Some people find that...

Thank you for this video, Forrest. I had just decided, at around day 31 or so, that the journaling and constant thinking about TMS was making my symptoms worse, because of the increased preoccupation. It was as though I was thinking psychological, but doing too much monitoring. It felt...

This has been the most enlightening thing for me as well... my own personality traits and how they affect me and those around me. As I said to my husband this weekend, I thought was was really strong but the truth is that I'm just a very good repressor. What I thought was strength was just my...

I said to my husband yesterday, "All these years I thought I was so strong. Turns out I was just really good at repression." We laughed, but it's totally true. What I thought was "coping" was actually suppression. So now, my pain is better, more or less, comes and goes, and I'm dealing mostly...

Hiawatha, I also had muscle and nerve pain with gluten and dairy, but as I've been working with my TMS, gradually I'm beginning to see these symptoms as TMS as well. Our minds are SOOO powerful. If we believe we will have pain with certain foods, then it's a done deal. However, I have found it...

speedysel... sorry I keep mixing you up with Slowena! But I guess we're all in the same boat.

Slowena, last night in bed I had a "TMS attack" as well and began to develop a round of migrating pains, one in an area I never had it before. I was working myself up into a full blown panic, so I got up and sat down on my meditation cushion and began my meditation practice to calm my mind and...

slowena, you might get some help from this thread: https://www.tmswiki.org/forum/threads/section-3-4-mindfulness.4914/

Excellent video, Walt. Thanks for posting! This is a great thread. I'm finding meditation and mindfulness to be the primary tool when working with TMS. Otherwise, my mind is up to its same old tricks before I know it.

Slowena, this is not easy... breaking an obsession means learning to change your mind patterns to some extent. I find that 20 minutes of meditation in the morning, and being committed to that practice, is a way to begin to retrain the mind. In meditation you learn to detach the focus of the mind...