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Leslie, It sounds like your unconscious mind is bullying you out of its fear you will begin to find ways to quiet your mind and focus just on you. Have you tried any mindfulness exercises or meditations? Deep breathing, yoga, or quiet music can have a soothing effect. You might even try some...

Trent, Welcome. You are experiencing some very normal reactions by your unconscious to the reading you have done. For some of us it takes a while to really get the fact that we are fine. Have you seen a TMS doctor to rule out anything structural? Have you checked out the Structured Ed...

Dee, Great suggestions! Thanks for this post. I just tried your stream of consciousness technique in a free write and got to an amazing insight about a core issue and how it has become a trigger in present circumstances. I could suddenly see how the pain I still experience got started and...

Sandy, I read all your posts and agree with Forest. You are incredibly courageous, disclosive and insightful. I can relate to so much of your story. I, too, have used rigidity in my eating behavior as a form of exerting control over my environment and my body. My mom used to hit me...

JoshB, Thanks for posting this amazing video! When I get too focused on my body, let me remember that my MIND is the place I really want to go with messages of my wholeness and health! Mind over matter is where our true power originates. Susan

Igloo, Welcome! I completed the Structured Ed Program on this site and moved into the Schubiner book and program after that. Rereading Sarno is a good strategy and you can do the Schubiner program as well. What I like about Schubiner as an adjunct to the SEP is that he has a marvelous CD...

SandyRae, Your story resonates with me because I had a similar experience with a teacher at age 5. I decided to become non expressive of my emotions, mainly excitement, at that moment of being not only called out for being a normal 5 year old happily anticipating a fun classroom activity, but...

Imagyx, Over twenty years ago I trained in a process called "rebirthing". It uses conscious connected breathing to get in touch with suppressed energy.....sound familiar. I brought and read some of the Presence Process and decided I was not ready to go that route yet because during rebirthing...

Lala, I was just cruising around the home page and clicked on the Q&A by experts button and then under Newest Additions. There is apost by Alan Gordon on conditioned responses which you may or may not have read previously. Maybe this will help you with your question. Best, Susan

Terry, Guess we are not unique. My biggest insight about wanting to be noticed by mom came a few weeks ago when I felt that emotion and knew where it came from. What was amazing was that within a minute of getting in touch with what was going on emotionally with me, i got a call from my...

I like to remember the unconscious is not rational. Therefore, these two issues or feelings may have a common cause. I can link all my own feelings of rejection and abandonment to my earliest life memories of my relationship to my mother. I wanted her to notice me, pay attention to me...

Bowen, Forest is right on. The Structured Ed Program on this site is excellent. One other resource that has helped me with the reprogramming/rewiring part on the path to healing is Howard Schubiner, MD, Unlearn Your Pain book and CD which comes with the book. He has some very specific...

Hugh, Your unconscious will move your symptoms around to keep you in its game, not your new found belief in TMS. Do not be deterred. I began with only back pain and have gone through hand, thumb and arm pain on both sides, gastro issues that lasted a food 5-6 months which are now gone, muscle...

Otterman, Awesome post! Great job of self understanding and compassion for yourself. Thanks, Susan

Hugh, Yes, all those dark thoughts and emotions your unconscious is trying to keep you from noticing is what the pain's purpose is. Where I have landed now is a feeling of joy in learning how ragefull and negative I can be. It is freeing. We do not have to act on those scary thoughts and...