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Day 8 - Question to ponder

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oetam_dude

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I haven't really had success connecting my emotions with my symptoms... On a day like today, when I wake up with my neurological symptoms, I tend to think that maybe I didn't sleep perfectly or adequately. In general, I can 1000% associate my initial "outbreak" of my syndrome two years ago as the culmination of years of sky-high stress and exertion. I've also noted that on certain days where I really stress myself out, that maybe the following day I will have increased symptoms.

I do the journal exercise on this website, trying to explore my emotions, but the connection with my symptoms has not happened yet. So in summary, I can't connect my emotions with my symptoms, but I definitely see a connection between stress and my symptoms.
 
oetam_dude said:
I can 1000% associate my initial "outbreak" of my syndrome two years ago as the culmination of years of sky-high stress and exertion. I've also noted that on certain days where I really stress myself out, that maybe the following day I will have increased symptoms
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It seems like you DO connect stress with symptoms. Stress causes emotions. So your emotions are connected to symptoms, if this s the case.

Now, all you need to do is figure out what emotions and when/how/why they are caused. And that’s the $million question. It’s THE TMS JOURNEY! Not easy! Not fun! But You’ll figure it out. And then you’ll be on your way. (I speak from someone who is working hard but hasn’t figured it out yet. Not all the way. The insights come in very small increments. To the point you can’t believe how slow it comes. But it is, in fact, the true path to follow.)
 
You're absolutely right, Diana. If I recognize that stress is related to my symtoms, than emotions MUST be related to my symptoms too... you can't have one without the other!

I will continue to dig and try to figure it out.

Thank you for helping me with my doubt and setting me on track.
 
oetam_dude said:
Hi Jan! What do you mean by this?
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Hey there - I had not forgotten your question because I feel like it qualifies as a universal one. I feel like I referenced it in another thread you're on, but as I was responding to another new member today, about how Alan Gordon's recent work seems to be less about the emotional side of this work, I remembered that I have listed two of Alan's 2012 audio webinars in my list of resources. Here's the post where I respond to the question and say how to find the webinars from my profile:
https://www.tmswiki.org/forum/threads/hello.28651/#post-150247 (Hello)
 
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