...and, here's the recording from the discussion on July 9th. For some reason, although it sounded fine during the call, the quality of the recording isn't that great. I'll work on straightening that out for next time.
In the meantime, feel free to listen to the recording in the audio player below. You can also download the discussion as an mp3 by right-clicking on
this link (or on the link below the audio player) and choosing to save it to your computer. Enjoy!
Hello out there to all our TMS wiki Family:
Im going to give a rundoun of the first quarter of the discussion group so if it sounds like something you'd like to learn feel free
to listen on and give us your thoughts and opinions
ok this program if full of wisdom from the onset we started talking about the theme,
Recognizing Destructive Behaviors-
and as always BruceMC gives his intro keeping us all up to date on our discussion;
1) Self criticism- im worthless, what's wrong with me 2) Pressure- im not working hard enough- im not making enough money- its like a drill sergeant in your head
3) Fear) what if I don't get better- what if I do all this work and nothing changes- what if I fail the exam- what if I get better then I fall back into pain.
Its all destructive thinking and behaviors, as mentioned in the discussion group when we go looking for the problem and then we find something that's a normal abnormality, we then discard the tms wisdom and focus back on the physical. I believe this behavior is said to be Catastrophizing, its a behavior that can be studied as forest said and it really stuck with me to look into.
Stock trader said, Anger equals when I scare and beat myself without awareness I repress my rage. that's an awesome thought to remember
Forest then talked about how fear can be a defense reaction - like if I worry about it then I will protect myself from it- another destructive behavior
Forest also mentioned this behavior as the inner terrorist- when this happens he said the best thing I can do is learn to live with my emotions and not try to repress them.
I (Eric Watson) mentioned about how after my father passed I used Somatic experiencing to get me through the recurrence of pain- it can pass if I just face it-
I actually wrote a post of how I focused on the emotions in my body and then the pain released and left.
Unknown Stuntman has wrote lots about this type of meditation in his threads called focusing.
chickenbones threads on somatic experiencing was brought up and her threads are really worth looking into
Forest mentioned to know more about it we can go to section 3.7 of Alan Gordons program called feel your feelings
As in my case even when we master tms healing we can still have set-backs so its always good to
know new tools to add to our toolbox so we can continue to grow-
Forest also mentioned sometimes tolerating the emotions can help, by learning to tolerate them
as joy mentioned good self talk can help too with self soothing and understanding....
Now guys this is only 16:45 seconds into the discussion so if you haven't listened in it would be a great idea to do so...
so until my next rundown, this one is an ace in my book...
