emotions

Hi guys, Hope you can help me with my next step in my TMS journey. First the highlights of my story: I'm a 38 year old woman and when I look back I suffer from TMS like symptoms my whole adult life. It began with anxiety, panic attacks and hyperventilation in my twenties. In my late twenties I...

First, I’m just gonna get this off my chest: my brain can only hold so many user name-password combos! Apparently I’ve exceeded my cerebral limit. So every time I want to post something, I have to reset my password. Is this another symptom? Hahaha! It’s been a long journey through bizarre...

i don’t know how to say it, but i rarely feel emotions. i rarely ever smile or laugh. i however feel sad more often. i seem to not care of what’s happening in the moment sometimes. yes i’m in therapy. anyone else have felt like empty? i want to feel joy again and i will! i accept this...

Hi there, With a little delay – because of moving to another place – I now have landed on Day 10. In the meantime I have managed to stay calm inside and connected to trust, because I see clearly over and over again that the pain moves around, is gone for hours and then haunting me again, which...

Hi everyone, Some of you may know me, I recovered completely from many years of crippling chronic pain thanks to Dr. Sarno's methods. You can see my story in my previous posts. I wanted to shared something that has really changed my life in the past few years. Several years ago, years after...

Hi All, My primary TMS symptom is testicular pain. I'm a bit confused about learning to "feel my feelings." My primary emotions are worry and anger. I have pretty good insight into their underpinnings: my mother is a very anxious person and I learned this from her as a child, and I have a...

Going through this list have made me aware of various issues I had in my life. This list is very helpful. I hope this helps anyone out there. Please comment if it matches for anyone. Source : Causes of symptoms according to Louise Hay Symptoms list: A Abdominal Cramps: Fear. Stopping the...

Hi everyone, I'm in the midst of a TMS flare and while I'm new to the concept of TMS, I know this is what I have. Leading up to this current flare, I was having immense feelings of rage and sadness about an emotionally abusive relationship I was in. Coupled with this, I had pent up feelings of...

I find this a useful paradigm for processing emotions, and is entirely consistent with Sarno. The author's new book It's Not Always Depression looks good, too. https://www.hilaryjacobshendel.com/what-is-the-change-triangle-c18dd (Hilary Jacobs Hendel, Author, Psychotherapist, The Change Triangle)

I like the gist of it ... A talk about accepting emotions as they are! http://t.ted.com/kZ3eEcm (The gift and power of emotional courage)

please, tell me about the important concept related (the deep cause of?) to chronic pain (and other symptoms) : REPRESSED EMOTIONS. I wonder if it is equivalent to AVOIDANCE of experimenting "dangerous", fearful, threatening, unbearable, "bad", negative emotions and feelings (anger...

This series on the brain is stunning. I highly recommend watching all of them. There's lots of mindbody info throughout, but also it's just cool! This segment stood out to me in terms of demonstrating physical processes being effected by emotional processes. Since TMSers, nearly by definition...

According dr. Sarno TMS is the direct result of deeply repressed emotions BUT..... Monte Hueftle says TMS is not a deeply repressed emotions syndrome! He believes TMS is a chronic pain syndrome caused by our day-to-day generation of inner tension and our day-to-day repression of emotional...

I'm having extreme doubts with this. whenever my symptoms shows up I stop and THINK about what i did before the symptoms so it showed up. Example, I lifted something heavy and got lower back pain. then i stop and think"why did i just get lower back pain all of a sudden? o I lifted something...

My children's pre-school is teaching children strategies for 'dealing' with anger and other emotions. The other day they learned a little saying, "When you feel the monster in your tummy, breathe through your nose and all the way down to your toes and count to ten!" The kids love it. I suppose...

This is a new show from NPR's Invisibilia, which is all about the invisible workings of the human brain (I bolded what I think is the key concept): In the first episode of its new season, NPR’s Invisibilia podcast tackles the complicated and misunderstood world of emotions. Researcher Lisa...

You know the cost of repressing difficult emotions well, but it can be difficult to start learning how to let our nervous system know those emotions are perfectly safe. Here's a short video I made on a neuroscience-based technique to help with this. I'd love to hear your experiences if you...

I'm 18 year old girl and have had pelvic pain for three years. I recently discovered through reading Sarno that around when my pain started I repressed my feelings of being gay/bi. I have admitted to few people (very few) about feeling like I might be bi but now I think I might just be gay. It's...