Recent content by mikeinlondon

Isn’t this the solution to TMS? That moment when you really feel in your bones* that you’re safe.* The self-talk that says: we’re okay, we’re living life, nothing’s dangerous. Slowly, it starts to break the link between physical sensations and fear. I’ve noticed it myself. Sometimes I get...

But that’s the thing, it’s perceived danger. There is no actual danger in my environment . It’s a hallucination and an illusion. It’s not real in reality. My environment isn’t dangerous but my mind thinks it might be! It needs to learn to decouple emotional and physical danger then it will...

I know understand what Cactus used to mean by doing the work. I now get it totally. My mind has been working overtime trying to figure out what is the trigger, root cause and drivers for my suffering. I wake up in the morning and my mind is forming narratives to find an answer. This last two...

You’re right — the brain doesn’t really separate emotional danger from physical danger. Lately, what’s become clear to me is how strongly my nervous system still reacts to my childhood environment. Certain cues in that home — voices, tones, the general atmosphere — feel emotionally unsafe to...

I’ve been reflecting on why chronic hypervigilance and overprotection can feel so suffocating — and I think I’ve finally found a key piece of the puzzle. For years, my brain treated emotional vulnerability like physical danger, trying to keep me safe by controlling everything. Overprotection...

The one I started listening to is “Calm Your Hypervigilent Mind” on YT by Suzanne Robichaud. I later after a few weeks asked her to create an audio for me specific to CS that talks to the limbic brain. AI created the script. All you do is listen to the audio and visualise. I prefer it to...

Fantastic, Diana. It’s all about separating the threat from the signal. I did it today and it was a drug. I used AI to put together a hypnosis script for CS based on my specific case then got a wonderful hypnotist on YT to do the audio. I then listen to the audio while doing visualisations...

Hi everyone, I wanted to share a way I’ve been thinking about central sensitization (CS) that helped me make sense of my own experience. I hope it can spark discussion or provide another perspective. Two Layers of CS I’ve found that CS isn’t just about “pain” or “fear” in isolation — it’s...

TMS (Central Sensitisation) isn't a medical condition and I say this because into any hospital or doctor surgery and they will just use terms like fibromylagia, anxiety etc. Even with doctors there's no consensus on what causes chronic pains. It isn't caused by a pathogen, or inflammation or...

Understanding the physical mechanism allows me, as the witness, to hold the Mind into account. So, when I say the body is okay in my affirmations I mean it because I know that the body is fine it is just fighting for survival because of the actions of the mind. It’s holding the mind to account...

But that’s just it, Diana. It’s not so much about my body as it is about my relationship with my limbic brain. The post was meant to highlight my emotion of anger that the mind (brain) is hurting my body. I’m witnessing the impact of the daily stress the mind is directing on the body and...

Indeed, you are correct, the root cause is psychological. In my mind the brain is the mind. The brain is hardware that houses the software which is the mind. It’s akin to referring to an iPhone which is the hardware plus software. In the same way, to me, the brain (iPhone) is the hardware...

There a lot of words about Mind to Body such as Nervous System Dysregulation, TMS, CS etc that I wanted to express in simple terms to my mind what I think is the cause of my symptoms so that can support a deep knowing of the root cause of my "ills". This is what came to my mind and the...