acceptance

@JanAtheCPA I have seen in another thread you posted a link for the self acceptance project. Unfortunately the link no longer works. Is this ' project' / discussion whatever it is still accessible?

I keep on having doubts regarding TMS. I keep on vacillating between between physical and TMS. I am not sure if I am on the right way. But I feel acceptance seems to be the key. Acceptance needs to be seen in different light rather than failure or giving up. The whole series of decade of neck...

Hi all In a nutshell, I have a great therapist (not a TMS one but she is aligned and open to the thinking) who is really figuring me out and scraping off the layers. She has made me aware of just how much my overthinking, pressuring, rushing and doing is still impacting me. I am SUPER...

Don’t post here a lot but I stumbled across this exert from Alan Watts and had a bit of a lightbulb moment: As someone who’s been struggling with the concept of “not fighting” my anxiety/TMS for a long while now, something about the way he phrased things here really hit home for me. A major...

One of the things I struggle with is "acceptance" of discomfort (who wouldn't?), yet I frequently see that given as one of the most effective healing methods. I had a sudden understanding of how this works: I have never paid attention to NCAA March Madness (even though I kind of follow pro...

For many years, I lived my life by a few deeply personal mottos, sometimes lighthearted, but always meaningful little sayings that applied to me and my life. But when I was healing from widespread chronic pain (diagnosed as fibromyalgia, chronic Lyme, Hashimotos, leaky gut, adrenal fatigue...you...

Two or three weeks ago I discovered TMS and Sarno's work. My pain reduced by 60 to 80% on a constant basis with the acceptance that it is caused by emotional repression. The odd thing is that I developed something that wasn't there before almost immediately and it hasn't stopped since the...

It seems the core solution behind TMS is largely self acceptance. When I see my image on a live camera feed when doing zoom meeitngs, or hear a recording of myself, I instantly have to look away or stop the recording. It bothers me to the point where I literally have to run away from it. This...

Hi, Ten years ago I developed chronic anxiety and stress and developed a long list of physical symptoms. Three years ago about 1-2 m0nths after losing a business, I developed urinary symptoms - frequency and urgency. This then turned into general pelvic pain and "prostatitis" symptoms. No...

Seems like a simple enough question, yet... I find the answer to that to be rather fleeting in the TMS community. Odd, since the entire condition revolves around pain. Yet, I hear great broad concepts like Sarno's reminders to think psychologically. Or, that we are ultimately safe from TMS pain...

I’ve been on this TMS journey for quite a few years now with minimal progress. I was wondering if some of you could help me answer this question that has been a big stumbling block for me. My back pain started 11 years ago after the birth of my daughter. It was a traumatic pregnancy and...

Greetings all... hope this finds you well. So, I've had a stress disorder for about 9 years. (Every symptom in the book.) Mostly panic/anxiety related but lots of physical issues. As some may recall, I'm a few months into a spell of balance/dizzy issues. (Strong, daily and constant.) I have...

Hey all, I'm a long-time experiencer of stress disorder. Some would say TMS, some would say stress or anxiety disorder. (Most symptoms have been CNS related.) I've made great progress over the years by using the foundations of Claire Weeks, Sarno, other TMS greats, Paul David, Jim Folk, etc...

Well, last year I bought Dr. Sarno's book and started reading it. While reading it, I was doing the tmswiki structured homework, daily. I probably did it for 2 to 3 weeks. Maybe 4 weeks tops and I stopped because I was doing 90% better. Some days I'd say I was 100%. But I just started doing...

I was starting to feel unusually well yesterday evening. Today shakiness and numbness is back. With the New Year's activities coming up tonight (plus a relative staying), I realized I was expecting too much of myself. Perfectionism! I had enough to do, just laughing at the voice in my head that...