journaling

Good article on benefits of expressive writing in NY Times: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/01/19/writing-your-way-to-happiness/?ref=health&_r=0

Hi all wanted to give everyone an update and welcome suggestions or advice on how to proceed with treatment. Briefly I am a 38/m and had fibro/CFS symptoms since teens. I came across the 20 20 Sarno segment and it stuck a big chord and I've been on the TMS train all the way since then. For...

What is reccomended to do once a journal has been filled up. Do you throw it away or keep it to refer back to?

People have been talking a lot about Journaling recently, so I thought would share a little information about the pioneer of Journaling research, James "Jamie" Pennebaker. In a groundbreaking 1986 article, Pennebaker and a coauthor asked college students to write about a traumatic event that...

I'm still slowly making my way through the SEP. I came across the dialogue technique in journaling (when you have an imaginary conversation with someone who hurt you, for example). At first I didn't think much of it, to be honest, and then I wrote down a conversation between my child self and my...

This Tuesday (May 20th) the call-in discussion group will be discussing “Eric's Journey – Chapter 6” and “Walt's Journey – Chapter 6 ” in God Does Not Want You to Be in Pain by forum members Eric "Herbie" Watson and Walt Oleksy. The recorded discussion will start at 9:00pm Eastern Time. Phone...

This short video is excellent with a patient of Dr. Howard Schechter telling how he healed from back and other painthrough TMS journalling. He says he had a lot of anger and anxiety because of job and financial stress. He tried everything medical but nothing helped relieve his pain until he...

I am curious if doing journal writing is really one of the main keys to healing. I am trying to 'think writing' but would rather meditate or hang out on the message boards, read articles, watch the Sarno DVD. Somehow the journaling seems like a big step, that I would like to take eventually. I...

I find as I'm feeling better, even pain free a lot of days, that I just don't have as much desire to journal. Sometimes I just don't feel like it other times I do feel kind of an aversion which makes me wonder if there's something else I'm repressing OR if it's that I'm working this all too...

Hello. This is my first post here. I'm not American and my English is not very good. So this might be having some grammatical errors and weird expressions. Sorry for that. I think I have TMS and I read one of Sarno's book (Healing Back Pain) 3 months ago and I'm trying to do what he says, but I...

During my visit with Dr. Sarno in January of 2007, he drew me an overflowing beaker. He said this beaker is made of three parts: 1) childhood issues, 2) everyday stressors (we can adjust our perspectives) and 3) personality (we likely can’t change our personality, but we can alter it). So...

I sure hope I'm allowed to do this? If not, the moderator can remove it..I won't be offended.. I am reading a book called 'Honoring The Self'' this week. I'll put a link up for those who are interested. http://www.amazon.com/Honoring-Self-Self-Esteem-Personal-Tranformation/dp/0553268147 I...

Hi TMS friends, I tried non-dominant hand journalling a few times. Although the skeptic in me still thinks it's a little "gimmicky", I found that it sincerely brought out a lot of emotions. Might be a good tool to add to the TMS toolkit. :) [Moderator's note: these posts were moved from this...

Hi everyone, I had kind of a setback last week after having a GREAT week the week before... Last weekend was a rough one for me emotionally due to a discussion that came up with a friend of mine. The work week was also more hectic than usual with a lot of very detail-oriented tasks that I am...