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Thank you so much, Spunky, for the videos. The 'treating pain with the brain' is funny and very helpful. I love what he talks about from minute 24. If we feel there is more danger in our lives than safety we get pain. So we look to increase SIMs - safety in me, like enjoying a meal or meeting a...

I feel like I wasted 20 years because of TMS. This is encouraging to just live and take my body and the symptoms with me:

Thank you very much, Alan, for your kind help.

If we change our body posture for 30-120 seconds it increases testosterone and therefore the feeling of being safe. It works for me very well in conflicts with other people. I just straighten my back, feel my feet on the floor and feel stronger within seconds. I think it could also work well...

In my case there don't seem to be many conditioned responses. Pretty much pain and fatigue whatever I do. I just lie in bed a lot. Could the conditioned response for fibromyalgia sufferers be: life = danger/pain? Is the approach to heal different when facing whole body pain, for example...

Alan, Forest and everyone involved in this forum: you're amazing! Thank you! Such a great fundraising idea. I was constantly tense as a child because of my father who I was afraid of. This tension all over my body was added by debilitating fatigue and pain over time and with 44 is still there...

Hi Eric, your body and emotional armor seem pretty small since you set an example with your openess and kindness (maybe like your dad did?!). Even though a froum is not a natural environment it shows. You're very fortunate to have had a dad like this!

Hi Eric, it's good you allowed yourself to really break down. I like Reich's theory about body armour. The armour (pain) stops us from living. Because of pleasure anxiety and pain anxiety. So much in somatic experiencing is about much rather feeling the emotional pain than being liveless. The...

Dear Eric, I'm sorry for your great loss. Wilhelm Reich did much more and specific somatic work in the 20s than the early psychologists mentioned in Sarnos books. Since he was a communist in his ealy years and studied the biology and (sexual, lustful) energies of mental and physical changes...

Hi KythyBee, my suggestion is to join a psychological (depression, anxiety) or trauma support group. Most there will also have some somatic trouble since its a part of those 'illnesses', but they see it as just another symptom, not the main problem, and they talk about the real underlying...

This artlicle has some excellent points about how focusing helped three people to listen to their pain and friendly accept everything that's coming, Sarno is also mentioned a few times: http://www.focusing.org/folio/Vol21No12008/27_FocusingAndChronTRIB.pdf

Chickenbone, I recently had a similar experience with tooth pain. I suddenly felt tremendous pain in my jaw and decided to accept the pain and believe in my body's ability to heal itself. After a couple of weeks the pain disappeared. It was a good experience to just have the pain without too...

Hi birdie, sprichst Du deutsch? Maja Storch's "Embodiment. Die Wechselwirkung von Körper und Psyche verstehen und nutze." has some great examples and studies about how our body=subconscious can assist us. These opened my eyes to see getting the felt senses of my body on my side not just as...

Hi crimslock, I had the same problem, I still do to a point, but I more often manage to think "Oh, you're there pain. I'm curious what you'd like to tell me." I think the psychologists/authors I mentioned above really help me to be kinder to my symptoms, because they explain very well what's...

Hi Forest, it's great you look into this! What helped me the most is to really stay with this 'body first' approach and to intellectualize and read much less. The healing when I listen to what my body and sensitive nervous system need, seems to be much faster. Intellectually I know what...