brain

A huge part of my going from being bedridden with wide-spread head to toe pain, severely painful muscle spasms and chronic fatigue for a total of over 18 months and housebound for many years (I came doing mind-body/TMS work late) to now functioning pretty normally by comparison was through...

Personally, I was impressed by much of this video's content, but particularly with what the interviewee says about, and how to deal with, perfectionism, 'all or nothing' / 'black and white' thinking, i.e. rewire your brain with 'gray' (from 14:56 to 20:35). What she says will definitely stick...

This posting is about what has been a game-changer for me recently—it's dead simple, feels and is honest, and actually quiets my overzealous 'meerkat sentry' brain looking out for danger. It's making my residual symptoms so much more tolerable (mentally and physically) and gradually and...

I'm currently reading a fantastic book by neuroscientist Rachel Barr. In her book 'How to Make Your Brain Your Best Friend ' she emphasises fostering delight to counteract chronic stress and rewire neural pathways for resilience. She writes: "Brief moments of genuine delight give your...

"It turns out that our brains are constructed so that emotional injuries activate the same parts of the brain as does a physical injury and most doctors have no idea that that's true." ~ Dr Howard Schubiner "The brain causes what we think and so we think that our thoughts are ours but our...

Below is a link to a mind‑expanding YouTube talk featuring Dr. Paul Hansma, Professor of Physics at UC Santa Barbara and head of the Hansma Research Lab. In this remarkable presentation, Dr. Hansma reveals cutting‑edge discoveries in brain science that could completely transform how we...

Just had some fireworks going off outside. We have a tradition of big fireworks thru newyears here. I wasnt wearing ear pro but it wasnt too loud or anything. I just thought oh theyre busy again lets put plugs in. Now I notice that the entire evening my mind has been wanting to get back to...

Alan Gordon (author of The Way Out) once mentioned carrying around with him a brain-shaped stress ball and looking at it kindly, thinking, ‘This poor little primitive brain,’ to help calm the fear response behind his chronic pain. He’s also described the primitive brain as a scared kitten that...

It’s honestly amazing how TMS/central sensitization (CS) can affect the body. My recent liver results showed elevated ALT, and at first I thought it was the CBD I was taking. But even after stopping CBD, the ALT is still high. Historically, prior to TMS/CS, my liver has been functioning...

And now, for something completely different, there's this elucidating yet not really surprising tidbit (courtesy of Wired): A new study from the University of Texas at Austin, Texas A&M, and Purdue University shows that large language models fed a diet of popular but low-quality social media...

‘Shooting the messenger’ and/or 'avoidance of the messenger' and other ways the primitive brain avoids doing mind/body work: The lizard/reptilian brain (one's primitive brain) uses various tactics to avoid the emotional work necessary for mind-body symptom relief, especially when faced with...

For those of you who have had imaging that is not good, but is also not the cause of your pain, how do you rid your brain of those images and those words on your mri? Things like foraminal narrowing, severe osteoarthrosis, ligamentum flavum buckling, ostepphyte complex and degenerative discs...

Long time, no see, TMSWiki! And it is not a shame to see you again! I am quite excited to come back and update on how things are going in my healing. Currently I am going through what I believe to be another extinction burst/symptom imperative. If you read through my past posts, you will find...

I was having a think following the other recent post ('floxed') about pain sensations and the brain but, in particular, anti-biotic use. Lets use the term "fibromyalgia" to mean pain in the absence of tissue/structural pathology i.e. TMS. A study has shown that replacing fibromyalgia...

For when your brain hijacks you away from doing what you need to do...

Today I looked down at my hand and was like, " Whhhhhat is going on, now my fingernails are turning yellowish orange?" They looked like they were irregularly discolored in multiple places. And, my brain immediately started making predictions about what this could mean and trying to "pull up...

ONE OF THE BEST TED TALKS.......Dr Brad Fanestil

Recently, I experienced a severely painful debilitating muscle spasm that has made it difficult to move, let alone walk. In relation to this, I have come so far on my TMS journey that I no longer think that this kind of thing is anything other than TMS. (And accordingly my TMSing brain is...

This is info from Dr David Hanscom’s app The DOC journey. (It stands for Direct your Own Care.) I’ve been doing this app and I really like it. It’s easy to follow with simple daily lessons. (More info on his site: https://thedocjourney.com/ (Join Us on a Journey to Reduce Stress - The DOC...

Since 2012, after reading When The Body Says No, by Gabor Mate MD, I have believed in the link between unresolved emotional repression and cognitive decline - but I hesitate to bring it up because people are so terrified by the prospect of dementia. Well, here's a study that was started in 2023...