repressed feelings or emotions

But I don’t want to journal. Is it the only way to get in touch with emotional drivers of chronic pain? No. No, it’s not. Now, if you aren’t opposed to journaling, I’d certainly start there. It has worked beautifully for many many people including me. However, if the idea of sitting down...

Just thought of this and wondered if it's possible: I never directly experienced a TMS-causing trauma that I can think of. But my family, like great-grandparents and beyond, went through all sorts of awful things before emigrating to the US. I'm wondering if those traits of fear, PTSD, and...

This might be common knowledge but I just wanted to share the power that music has in releasing powerful emotions. I've been avoiding certain songs because it reminded me of a relationship that I really missed. I never really processed that breakup since I was preoccupied with my TMS. I've been...

http://news.berkeley.edu/2017/08/10/emotionalacceptance/ great study on repression of negative emotions

I meditate on Dr Sarno's 12 Daily Reminders each day - I spend 90 seconds repeating the words of each one while trying to focus on my breathing. I've been doing this for maybe a month or two and if this is the only TMS work I do all day, then so be it. I try to focus on my breathing, repeat...

Have been reading and studying a lot today, and completing Day 2's assignments. Confused by, what seem to me opposing statements. Read that to,get pain reduction with TMS, just need to know the symptoms are there to cover up repressed emotions, and need to think psychological about the pain. But...

Today's recommended reading of Dr. Schubiner's blog posts is encouraging and more confirmation that I am starting to 'get it'. Dr. Schubiner writes: "The emotions that tend to have the largest effect on us are precisely those that we are unaware of." I think these emotions are possibly some...

Hi everybody! I just wrote out my story in my profile, and as it's a bit long, I'll just abbreviate (feel free to read the full story). I'm a new (first-time) mom, with a 3 month old baby, and a long history of various TMS symptoms. I am a total perfectionist, and actually have no problem...

A quandary. I really feel I have few repressed emotions left! I have been working on this stuff for years and years and continue with this ‘digging’, plus journaling current stressors. Yet still I have pain. Neither is it moving around since I started the SEP. I am really quite stumped...

What part of this program do you find the most helpful? Hmmm, lately it's been a tie between the educational reading and the journaling. The former because it generally gives me hope; the latter because I get in touch with some emotions that I wouldn't otherwise, but this has been somewhat...

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...

The question to ponder was do I recognize the emotions connected to my pain? I definitely notice that almost all the emotions I feel ultimately funnel down to one common feeling: not feeling like I'm good enough. Whether it's playing music, talking to girls, social interactions...I've always...

I've read Healing Back Pain; even before discovering the work of Dr Sarno I was inclined to believe my pain was emotionally-generated... either from on-the-spot stress or acquired "muscularization" habits relating to years of living under fearful conditions. I'm 100% on board with TMS as a...

One morning, I woke up, stepped out of bed, and keeled over from agonizing pain. I was no stranger to pain, as I’d had searing pelvic pain from Interstitial Cystitis for years. This, however, was a different searing pelvic pain. I picked up the phone and called 911. Pain is a powerful...

I have MS, which I realize is not on your lists, and moderate to severe chronic pain daily in the form of headaches or migraines, neck and upper back pain and stiffness on my right side. The pain began shortly after my third child was born and my first and second were in kindergarten and second...

“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 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...

Written by Dr. Schubiner on January 31, 2009 Emotions, particularly those that are subconscious, were not seriously studied by the scientific community until relatively recently.For much of the 20th century, psychologists were more interested in studying our conscious awareness and didn’t think...

Good article on Psychology Today: 5 Areas Your Body Holds Emotional Stress

This is posted at my website. Below is a letter I wrote to a person I will name Jill, which I share here with her permission. Jill's psychological inquiry during a walk in the woods revealed neediness, rage, repression, and pain. These emotions related to her primary relationship. I think these...