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Hi All, I've just stumbled across this little article on willpower and a subject I find very important in TMS recovery... Stanford scholars The research challenges the popular view that willpower is a limited resource that depends on a consistent supply of glucose. It's not an extra dose of...

Mindfulness meditation is proven to reduce pain at a neurobiological level by, Christopher Bergland Nov 11, 2015 Source: Sebastian Kaulitzki/Shutterstock Over 100 million Americans are impacted by chronic pain, which is the leading cause of disability in the United States. The financial toll...

ADVICE FOR PARENTS WHOSE CHILDREN HAVE SLEEPING PROBLEMS. GOOD FOR ADULTS ALSO. Parents know firsthand the impact a poor night's sleep has on kids. Lack of sleep can contribute to crankiness, problems with attention and learning, behavior issues, and even health problems such as obesity...

The following is an article on how to be happy and relieve anxiety, worry, depression (three common TMS symptoms). A 69-year-old monk who scientists call the 'world's happiest man' says the secret to being happy takes just 15 minutes per day Matthieu Ricard, 69, is a Tibetan Buddhist monk...

Great article! A little technical at times but the point of it is, we are born with structural differences that don't fit the plumb line portrait as shown and interesting point regarding professions posture and pain...

ELIZABETH MILLARD · MAY 2015 How being good to others can be good for you. Treating other people well isn’t just good for your karma. It’s good for your health and vitality, too. Psychology researcher Barbara Fredrickson, PhD, author of Love 2.0: Creating Happiness and Health in Moments of...

WHY BE AWARE? Why be aware? Because awareness is what we ARE. There are many names for it: the truth of who we are, consciousness itself. You could call it mindfulness, being-ness, silent alertness, that-which-isn’t-subject-to-dualism. When we bring awareness into our lives, we bring presence...

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Just stumbled across this article on the front page of the New York Times this morning about individuals with a genetic predisposition for developing schizophrenia, typically during late adolescence...

The Dangers Of Positive Thinking SEPTEMBER 17, 2015 - BY DAVID HANSCOM SHARE Dr Daniel Wegner, a professor of psychology at Harvard University, elegantly documented what every human knows: Whatever you try not to think about you will think about more. He also demonstrated that there was...

Hi everyone, In last week's drop in chat, Joe Dispenza came up and I shared some information about him and how I feel he doesn't have any significant credentials, but appears to have learned most of what he writes about from a cult that he used to be part of (or what appears to me to be a...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-35341643 Lots of TMS boxes being ticked here methinks.

Dr Sarno told in his book and lecture that our mind is conditioned to postures/situations. Like for me i am conditioned to sitting in office. I barely get pain when i sit at home at soft Sofa, I don't get pain when i do Yoga but i get pain when i sit in office chair> I know this is because of...

Dear friends, I keep on being astonish how much the behaviour of our parents influence us. It seems like their patterns of behaving has imprented into me and I carry it all the life with me. If I now see situations that hurt me in my adulthood I see the roots of my behaviour in my childhood, in...

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I thought this was an interesting article. My fiancee is an introvert who prefers small groups and her sister in law is a big-time diffuser. It creates a good deal of tension and stress. Regarding attachment, some of the psychologists closest to Dr. Sarno emphasize its important. SteveO does as...

Below is an excellent example of the EFT techniques used for tapping away pain.

Hi All, I've come across this article for those of you who are new to the Forum and particularly, meditation and it's benefits. The below is an article from Mindful. Org. Enjoy Many of us have heard of meditation’s benefits. We may have even tried meditation once or twice. And many of us...

The following was recently in the New York Times... A Placebo Treatment for Pain Credit Sophie Lécuyer THE crisis of painkiller addiction is becoming increasingly personal: Sixteen percent of Americans know someone who has died from a prescription painkiller overdose, according to a recent...

What we are all searching for! How???!!!! I fully and completely believe the TMS diagnosis and have evidence to remind myself that I am not structurally injured and that my pain is psychologically-induced, and I have many wonderful days/moments where I feel empowered and that I have control...