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@lili2002
You have EXACTLY said what Dr. Sarno is saying "How contact the rage ? It s not an emotion I feel secure with" - the rage is not an emotion most of us feel comfortable or secure with, which is why we have pain! Our brain is protecting us from the rage - by distracting us with the pain, with the depression, anxiety, and other symptoms.
You talk to your brain.
Tell it you can handle the rage.
SHOW it you can handle the rage.
Most often we don't even know how much rage we have - we have been taught to keep it down, be happy...think of it as being forced to carry your rage on your back, or on your shoulders. This burden we have been told that we will be "bad" if we express.
You do not need to express it to anyone, other than yourself. To tell yourself it is absolutely OK to have rage and anger AND still love people, or still be a good person. This is the personality trait that Dr. Sarno calls "people pleasing".
I suggest you go back and read Dr. Sarno again and maybe take some notes to where you begin to see his real message. For some of us it seems hidden. He does not talk too much about the emotional work that needs to be done for many of us. Take some short notes and realize where you yourself fit into what he writes - your personality traits you may not have even recognized you have like types of perfectionism (people who have this are usually VERY self critical.
The most important thing is to realize that this is an evolution of yourself. Applying pressure to "feel emotions" or to break habits can make us have MORE symptoms. Realizing that this will all come to you, eventually as you begin to unwind your nervous system and recognize and accept where you might have anger (it's not the anger we know we have, it is usually anger hiding in our subconscious) or other feelings and keep telling yourself it is absolutely OK to have these feelings and emotions, they will come.
Safetly. This is the most essential part of Peter Levine's work. Fascia is just an example of where we can hold stress...it can be fascia, muscles etc. but it is ALL created IN THE BRAIN so treating the fascia isn't going to heal you. Peter Levine's work is first and foremost with the mind. If you watch him during a session with a client (on youtube), you will see he tries to create a very safe space for the person he is treating to feel (in the body) the things he is thinking - without fear. Levine asks the person to accept the physical feelings of discomfort without pushing them away or fearing them. To be OK with not being OK. To accept themselves as they are. Then he talks to the person about what he sees, and what they physically experience and Levine shows them how the fear of the body and the sensations is equal to the fear in the mind, the fear simply is another distraction to hide the anger (same as the depression, pain or anxiety hide the anger)...or other feelings and emotions.
He explains that it is just the nervous system reacting to the mind.
Then he tells the person they will be OK ask they work to soften the fears, to recognize the anger, and that it's all absolutely OK because they are safe in the very moment they are expressing themselves.
You don't have a Dr. Levine to express yourself to but you can write it on paper.
Nicole Sach's was a patient of Dr. Sarno and now a therapist, who teaches people to journal their thoughts and feelings and emotions. She suggests to write it out like a screaming, tantruming 5 year old! Write down all the stuff you are angry about with family, with your situation, with the past, with the present. Just a little bit every day, maybe 20 minutes. Then sit with these feelings and let your body feel them and not be afraid of this hot anger, or the tears. Dr. Schubiner is a well known TMS Doctor in the USA, and he suggests you can write or even THINK about these things. Imagine punching someone in the face, yelling at them, stomping on their foot! Get it all out.
If you write things down, immediately tear them up and throw them away where nobody can read them. You do not want to hurt anyone with your thoughts. This is just to express your feelings and be ok with them.
Sometimes you will sit and nothing will come up at all. That's OK too. We don't live every day in dread and anger.
More importantly when you do this ALSO do things you enjoy too. It can not be all hard work!
This is FREE. Journaling costs only pen and paper. FAR cheaper than the fascia treatments, or buying CBD or anything else. It costs nothing and you always have it.
Take your time with these ideas. They are new. Even the idea that this is all mental and emotional can take much time to understand after reading Sarno. If what you have been doing has not been working for you, experiment! Try something new!
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