emotional triggers

This is a short excerpt from today's email newsletter/blog by Dr David Hanscom MD, followed by the "read more" link to the entire blog post on his website. The discussion is about family members and emotional triggers, written in conjunction with Dr Les Aria. "The basic problem arises from...

So you completely (or mostly) believe that your symptoms are due to TMS or mind/body syndrome, and you're doing the work of looking at your emotions, maybe journaling, maybe meditation, some somatic tracking thrown in, but it just doesn’t seem to be enough. You’re not getting any results…no...

After reading this article I think TMS is perhaps not a repressed emotion, but the stress>pain linkage is an emotion itself. To me, that's a better way to describe it--since experts can't really agree on what an emotion actually is anyway. I feel sad, I cry. I feel angry, I rage. I feel happy...

Originally written by Dr. Schubiner on September 21, 2009 More on the “contagiousness” of Mind Body syndrome: Over the past couple of years, a new line of research has been developed which documents that certain disorders are socially contagious. Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler have...

Originally written by Dr. Schubiner on April 9, 2009 It is clear to most people that emotions can cause physical reactions in the body.When someone gets embarrassed, their face will turn red.When standing up to speak before a large audience, many people would have physical reactions such as...

“When one door of happiness closes another opens, but we often look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us” Helen Keller Have you ever found yourself ruminating on a problem and feeling you’re getting nowhere with it? The trouble is, the more we focus on an...

I want to celebrate that I am off all meds, this is a big victory for me medications no longer have strong hold on me….I have learned numerous coping skills from this site to help on my journey. I also found my voice in confronting my bully of a wife ( soon to be EX), I have that this...

I have been a member for over a year and I felt the need to share my story! I have been enduring rectal pain for over 3 years, been to multiple doctors with no diagnosis. I knew it was TMS but I was unable to overcome the pain. I believe the pain was linked to also not being able to conceive...

:joyful: Greetings! I'm a confirmed believer in the existence of TMS and the "symptom imperative." Therefore, any new symptoms that come along are met immediately with the question, "Could this be TMS?" Well, a couple of weeks ago, and then again last night, I had a particular pain that...

Originally written: December 21, 2008 The role of triggers: Holidays and headaches As the holiday season approaches, I am reminded of the importance of things that trigger MBS symptoms.I once heard a description of families during the holidays as being, “just the way they are, only more so.”It...

Hello fellow soldiers :) I am new here and wanted to say hi and get a bit of feedback if possible. I titled this "catch 22" because that's what it feels like I am in; my health problems are preventing me from living independently from my family, yet I think that being dependent on and living...

I'm listening to the World Tapping Summit 2015…it's got a LOT of great stuff. Much (most?) of the stuff fits hand in glove with all I'm learning about Mindbody. It reminds me of Dr. Schubiner's program too as he has you repeat mantras to retrain your brain and get it off of the negative tapes...

I have a great deal of anxiety from growing up with an alcoholic, raging mother and then living with an alcoholic raging husband (who got sober after 15 years). If someone gets angry, I freeze up with anxiety. I've had quite a bit of success writing about my rage at my mother and my husband. I'm...

TUESDAY, OCT. 29, CALL-IN: “TIMING OF THE ONSET,” CHAPTER 11, THE GREAT PAIN DECEPTION This Tuesday, October 29,the call-in discussion group will be discussing Chapter 11 (Timing of the Onset: Don’t Beware, Be Aware))in Steve Ozanich's book The Great Pain Deception starting at 9 pm Eastern...

Steve Ozanich’s The Great Pain Deception – Chapter Four Chasing the Changes – A Time for Reflection This chapter is full of great advice on healing TMS pain. It focuses largely on triggers that set off repressed emotions that cause TMS pain. Steve says triggers result from both conditioning...