I got a nervous system that is very dysregulated so no matter what I do get one fight or flight a day and it destroys my tms healing of my ohysical chronic pain. So how do I deal with this? How do I stop the daily fight or flights so I can focus on bringing my body into a calm healing mode? I' doing meditation, deep slow breathing, yoga, human garage fascia(somatic stretching), eft tapping, walking in nature, getting enough sleep
I have tried tons of other stuff as well.
Any suggestions?
My suggestion is to look at how you are doing these things. Are you attempting to use them to "fix" symptoms?
Once again, "doing" a lot to "cure" the TMS is often counterproductive. It all comes down to mindset.
Are you doing yoga because you enjoy it, and you like the feeling of the movement, or are you doing it to "treat" tms?
What about the stretching, is this to "fix" something, or have you been regularly stretching as part of your lifestyle.
Do you create inner pressure doing these things, feel you must, have to or "should" do them to "heal". This is why Dr. Sarno points out that we need to take our personality traits into consideration because they can contribute the creation of our inner stress.
Doing more will not help you make shifts any faster because they are "doing" things and not attending to the psychological that Dr. Sarno points out - especially our inner rage (this is something in our subconscious and many people with TMS don't necessarily find themselves feeling very angry - until they allow themselves to feel more emotions!)
When you are engaging in activities can you foster a feeling of gentleness towards yourself, and a sense of curiosity when doing them. Notice how you feel when you breathe slowly and deeply, and notice where in your body it feels good. When you do your yoga, can you simply relish in the slow movement from pose to pose and find some sort of curiosity in it eg. how slowly can you move, or how lightly can you feel doing them, can you imagine yourself doing the pose while hovering on a fluffy cloud...how does that feel in your body when you imagine these subtle differences. It's a way to begin having fun with doing these things and changing your mindset to one from a heavy intent to something that is just light and enjoyable.
And if you find you are engaging in things you don't like, don't do them!
Above all this takes time, but a lot of this time you will find that you learn about your inner landscape and how you operate. This is when you really begin to see the shifts, whatever they may be.
