Day 11

[debbi1955]

The work today asks for comments on comparison of my experience to that of Armchair Linguist. This line most caught my attention: 'My pain started to jump around a lot to silly places that had never hurt before, which was pretty darn convincing.' I started with back pain, then got neck pain that I had never had before. That cleared up, but yesterday and today I've been having pain in a spot where I had minor surgery in 1989 - 25 years ago! After thinking about it, I realized that a lot of the old stressful situations and emotions that I've been journaling about have ties to that time in my life, so it makes sense that my mind would pick a pain that corresponds to one I legitimately felt at that time. Kind of like a physical memory. Just sitting here writing about this connection, the throbbing pain stopped. I'm amazed at how often that is happening - that while I'm revealing myself in posts here, the pain I'm experiencing vanishes.

 

[Eric "Herbie" Watson]

I love that, while you are putting it all together you begin to feel better. That is success for sure - awesome. I have been better for some time now but I still stay fine tuned with my lessons I tell and learn here at tmswiki.
With my morning walk this morning I felt some pain in the inside front of my foot. It felt like the pain you get when you have twisted your foot or something ya know. I knew my foot was fine so I just told it to stop in my mind and ignored it. A second later the pain went away, tms still tries to catch me two years later and that's fine cause I know what to do to stop it. I had tms for 25 years so I don't study if those occurrences happen, just move on -- keep walking and smile, paying no attention to the structural thoughts. Isn't it just beautiful.