Recent content by Smokey73

Dear new member, my heart goes out to you. You could be me many years ago, or any one of my family. The tools I have learned include knowing that the sensations including afib all come from your brain. Yes, they are real, but they come from your brain and can be healed from your brain...

I found Dr Schubiner's new book to have information very helpful to someone new to mind body work or someone like me, who has read most everything on the subject. He importantly backs up theory with actual footnotes of studies. I encourage everyone to read it. No one has been more dedicated to...

Recently I had been questioning the tms sensations that often arise late in the afternoon. I now am able to connect those sensations with repressed anger over my efforts to please a testy husband with a dinner he won't complain about. It was Baseball's question about looking for possible anger...

With so much chaos in our world, it should not be surprising to find it here on this beloved forum. But it does break my heart. Coming to this forum has been an important support for me over the years. I have come to "know" so many of you and appreciate each different way you have tackled tms...

Thank you Diana for role modeling how to think psychologically. You expressed all those beautiful emotions on paper. Wow!

While reading Sarno's Divided Mind, I was reminded that anxiety and all the awful sensations it produces, are TMS just like back pain. Anxiety can be so overwhelming I forget that it is just another distraction. I find I need to keep reminding myself over and over. Sarno believed education was...

You might try Chi Gong or Tai Chi. There are online routines available. They are considered moving meditation. I do at least 40 minutes every day. Besides the meditation aspect, they are a range of motion for the whole body which helps relax all those muscles and joints. One tool to help in the...

The thing about aging is all the changes occurring, mostly unwelcome and often an emergency. Yesterday I visited my friend in a retirement facility. When I left, I was overwhelmed with stress. I had to stop and acknowledge what was happening. I am almost 80 and fully aware of what the future...

In my experience, I struggle with allowing and accepting negative as well as positive emotions. And now that I have worked on the anger and rage, I find I have a long way to go to feel good about myself. Self compassion helps. I think Carola makes a good point.

Does letting go help, or is that repression? I am troubled with the idea that a friend would be so angry over my beliefs. Is it wrong to expect a friend to accept me and my beliefs without having to agree with them? I admit that one of my mind body triggers is feeling that someone is pressuring...

Jan, can you recommend a book on Existential Psychotherapy?

This is so true. One small instance of a symptom can lead to catrastrophing and suddenly I am narrowly focused on my symptom. If I can catch it early, I can see it for what it is, my imagination over working. But if I am already in a stressed mood, the worry can settle in. Learning my triggers...

I am 78. Aging naturally brings less flexibility and pain with overuse. Our bodies are wearing out. However the psychological factor still needs to be addressed. The stress associated with aging is a tms trigger and will contribute to your symptoms. It may be the cause of the symptom, but it...

A Buddhist phrase that opened my mind is " you don't have to believe everything that you think". My thinking is dependent on what is happening in my life. It is not set in stone. It is fallible. It is not nearly as important as I once thought. So now I question my thoughts. And I realize they...

Whenever I become too intellectual about my symptoms, I know I have been ignoring the psychological.