Recent content by RikR

“Ordinary” Trauma To understand the meaning of these everyday emergency responses, and to transform them into opportunities for healing, we first need to rethink our fundamental assumptions about trauma. I propose that the sources of trauma are far more complex than the standard DSM-IV...

In the past few days I have had the good fortune of speaking and networking with several experts in the field neurophysiology regarding neuroplasticity and the effects crated by adverse childhood experiences...and how we chronically perpetuate them . You can Google Dr. Robert Scaer, Dr. Stephen...

I have a lady friend who called me last night at 2:00 am scared to death. This is the second time in two months she has had major acid backwash in her sleep that went into or tried to go into her lungs. She woke up coughing and could not breathe for a couple of minutes – now her throat and vocal...

Everything is gone - thanks Everyone

I have read enough and learned so much that is allowing my healing. I want to offer someone else my TMS library. My reading is over and now doing the work. I would like to sell these as a complete group - I dont have time to package and main individually Here is the list: Dr. David...

I have been aware of this and it is written in many psychology books....guilt and shame from childhood that is kept alive with current thoughts and behaviors. Dr. Schubiner says guilt is a more powerful force than anger in TMS. Talking with a young lady I know yesterday brought this to mind...

A wonderful book on this called; Paradoxical Relaxation by Dr. David Wise. About TMS type symptom recovery by a non-TMS doctor. They have a huge clinic at Stanford Medical school

I was reading a synopsis of research on childhood development alterations of the nervous system that would help predict later life stress induced illness. It was confirmed some years ago that children having adverse in-utero or childhood experiences would have permanent, negative changes in...

I just had a private response that I will answer Heat such as a heating pad, hot bath or spa does not reach deep enough into the tissues to have a major effect on the muscles. If heat over 40 degrees Celsius (104 F slightly above body temperature) is applied to the skin near where internal...

The Sarno theory is that pain is caused by repressed emotions stressing the central nervous system and then reducing oxygen to the muscles causing pain. Basic physiology 101 show that stress profuses the muscles and brain with more oxygen and blood flow to prepare for flight. SPECT scans show...