Conquering TMS

I discovered TMS by typing in "how I overcame chronic pain" in YouTube and found your videos. Thank you so much for sharing your story!
I am on day 2 and very hopeful these techniques will help overcome the shoulder pain that has debilitated me for seven years.
Cheers from a fellow Canadian and enginerd (at least I assume you are from the pinky ring in your video)!
 
Hey Kareem ( not sure exact name). I watched your videos on You tube and they inspired me a lot. I have mild back pain for last 7 months. I am able to do all my activities without pain ( walk/jog/drive bike/sleep) except sitting in office.But due to doctor's suggestion i was not doing anything ( not bending/not lifting weights/Not playing cricket). After watching your video i resumed all activities. I watched your video last Saturday and next morning i went to play cricket. My first day in office after watching your video went very well. But after that day i am feeling my each day is worse than previous day. I am following all your suggestion and i also read the book healing back pain from Dr Sarno. Today i am little bit discouraged because i went to play cricket today and since i came back i am feeling significant increase in my back pain. I strongly believe i am conditioned to play cricket. As you suggested i journal a few things that might be bothering me and i am trying to ignore the pain ( thinking psychological than physical)
Here i am writing the worst part of me.
As i have tried a lots of things and nothing worked for me, I am very much negative. I have completely accepted that i am suffering from TMS but i am in doubt if i will recover fast !!! I want to mention that i am in pretty much ( really much much ) better than you. But still i feel very stressed out due to my low back pain and i am desperate to get completely recover
 
Hi Anshushakti - Thank you for sharing your story. I am sorry you've been in pain, but I am confident you are now in the right place to heal.

It is great to hear that you are open to the TMS diagnosis. One thing I want to emphasize is that everyone's path to healing is different and it cannot be rushed. You must be patient and follow your instincts. It sounds like you might be being a bit too aggressive with returning to you activities such as cricket. Take your time, keep journaling, reading success stories and letting the information sink in. Over time you will start to see improvement and then I suggest GRADUALLY resuming your activities. You will know when the time is right, just be patient and do it in steps. It can take time to decondition yourself from these triggers, it will not happen over night and some days will go better than others.

You may want to consider following the structured educational program on the wiki as it will keep you focussed on your recovery.

Be well
 
psychosomatic said:
Hey GR - My write-up on hypnosis is taking a little longer than expected. In the meantime I'm sharing an email I sent to one of my previous doctors about how I used hypnosis to quickly end a reoccurence of my symptoms. Hope this helps.

"Dr T,

I wanted to give you an update regarding my health because I think you'll find it quite interesting. This email is a little long but I think you'll find it worth the read!

I decided to spend the past month backpacking through Colombia. A few weeks into my trip I ended up going tubing on the Colombian rapids but it turned out to be a very dangerous ride. I landed quite ackwardly into a rock, and for a few days after the injury my neck and upper back were sore.

The pain eventually calmed down, but when I got back to Canada it became very intense. It felt very different than the chronic pain I was used to, and it got so bad to the point where my whole body tensed up and I could barely move. I was confused. While I definetely suspected the pain was emotional in nature, the fact that I had an accident made this difficult to believe. The pain was also incredibly intense which made me question if there could be a real physical cause.

I decided to go to a chiropracter to see if this would help I but didn't see much relief, which affirmed my belief that this was emotional in nature. I began to reapply all the same principles that made me healthy the first time. I re-read Dr. Sarno's book and I ignored the pain and tried to live a normal life like nothing was wrong. The pain persisted. I really tried to dig into my psyche to understand what the root cause might be but I couldn't figure it out. Things kept going on like this for a week and the symptoms did not calm down.

I knew in the back of my mind I needed to release negative emotional energy but I did not know what had triggered this episode. I decided to try a hypnosis technique where you put yourself into a hypnotic state and ask your unconcious mind to show you an image representing your inner emotions. An image of a skull and crossbones quickly appeared in my mind. It brought back memories from the tubing trip where I was sucked into a rapid and was panicking for about 20 seconds desperately trying to avoid drowning. The image represented FEAR, particulary FEAR of death. These repressed emotions quickly poured out of me and I felt much calmer and relaxed after the session.

The next day the pain DISAPPEARED! The negative emotion had been released and the pain no longer served a purpose. I have been back to 100% health ever since. I find this story extremely fascinating for three reasons.

1) It amazes me at how deceptive the unconcious mind can be. In this particular case, it used a physical trigger (the accident) to try to deceive me from realizing the pain was emotional. The pain was also incredibly intense and very different than what I was used to. It knew that my concious mind would recognize "normal pain" as emotional, so it created a very different pain to try to prevent me from realizing what was going on. The unconcious will go through great lengths to avoid dealing with emotional pain.

2) It was also very intersting to pin-point the exact event which caused this episode. To be honest, while getting sucked into the rapid was scary, it wasn't THAT bad. On the concious level I quickly forgot about it. Little did I know that it had terrified my inner-child to take such drastic action. Events that may seem trivial at the concious level can leave a large footprint of negative emotion below the surface.

3) Finally, this incident has really reaffirmed my belief in the power of hypnosis to quickly treat mind body disorders. While Dr. Sarno's techniques are very useful and a necessary part of the healing process, a good portion of patients will see other symptoms pop-up or experience setbacks such as mine. These patients are currently being refered to psychotherapists, and while this may eventually pay dividends, I'm convinced that hypnosis is a far better route. Healing will occur much faster, it will be much cheaper for the patient and they will see better results.

You are one of the few doctors who will appreciate this information so I wanted to share it with you. I know this email was long, but this stuff is just so interesting, especially since this is a field of medicine that is largely unexplored. I will keep you posted with any new techniques I discover. Starting to think my calling in life might be to innovate new treatment strategies to help people suffering from pain syndromes and mind body disorders.

All the best,

K"
Click to expand...

Your videos are very inspirational, thank you :) I would love to know more about the hypnosis technique you mentioned if you have time?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top