Can muscle tension be cured all at once?

[Endless luke]

My primary problem is muscle tension and I've been making progress. I'm doing meditation, reading Sarno, and concentrating on my belief that this is a mental/emotional problem. What I'm trying to understand is whether all these steps that I'm doing and the slow pace of progress is a reflection of the fact that my belief isn't there yet and I'm not ready to get better or whether I'm doing what I should and it just takes a while.

It seems like based on my readings of Sarno if I could just get my belief right the tension would immediately disappear.

 

[BruceMC]

I've really noticed lately during meditation and breathing exercises just how tense my muscles must have been before when I had TMS pain. Now, after doing breathing exercises for a while, my muscles are starting to let go and sometimes let go even further. I think practicing "mindfulness" of the different parts of your body while doing breathing exercises and meditating allows those various muscle groups to return to an untensed mode. Of course, I can't really predict for certain when you'll achieve those states of advanced relaxation. But persevere and I'm sure you'll see what I mean. I think that the first guided meditation on Howard Schubiner's CD entitled "Mindfulness" is a good exercise to achieve what you're after, Luke. It's enclosed in the flap of Schubiner's Unlearn Your Pain workbook, which I'm not promoting, but which worked for me.

 

[Eric "Herbie" Watson]

endless luke ive found that after you get your belief right, which takes severl weeks to months
with full study, some get it faster, some
but the conditioning still remains-
so we will then get the conditioning of laying wrong on a bed per se mixed up with having little break through
when in all reality weve already come a long way, see