I'm just going to chime in here...I honestly don't think the Presence Process even belongs on the Wiki. I actually managed to read it during my desperate phase. It overcomplicates an approach to healing that Dr. Sarno so elegantly laid out. Most of it is New Age twaddle. That is my OPINION only. If you enjoy meditating for hours every day and you're on some kind of "spiritual" journey , then knock yourself out, but the book itself is horrendously written and the program itself is convoluted and unrealistic for most people. I'm a big proponent of simplifying life and that's at the heart of TMS healing...getting back to the basics and enjoying life through doing and through relationships to others. There are many "tools" one can employ to calm down the brain and change one's thought patterns and access repressed emotions....meditation, yoga, journaling , walks in nature, art work, Qui Jong .....whatever resonates with you but they are just tools to help you along. It always comes down to MINDSET and living your LIFE.
the writing of the presence process is intentional and it’s not about meditating for hours whatsoever it’s not about DOING and tools that’s the whole point and where mental effort struggles to grasp the application of it
It CANNOT be understood by the mind the mind is part of the mental plane and why there are so many people struggling from doing as distraction to NOT FEEL their feelings
It’s a pandemic
The BEING with the energy and sensations in the body trains anyone to come out of that old ego protection and compassionately work direct lot with the material surfacing at the causal point
The root of the pain
It’s simple truth about our conditioned self and childhood where our limbic system was often struggling from deep upsets where our parents or caregivers were simply not aware or able to support and validate in a functional way.
The whole point of it is to sit with sensations and validate the key ‘emotional signatures that formed from those traumatic times that because of never truly being felt because that has been too painful to do so for many, the energy of that experience sits in the body like an emotional charge and remains there, 24/7
Why else when we’re triggered are many so reactive in whichever way people need to be reactive to defend, protect stay safe from feeling that buried pain from the memories?
Which is why when we feel threatened even if an event slightly resembles a past painful experience
The N.S activates and is triggered to move away by either fight freeze fawn etc
To avoid those painful feelings again
This is why it teaches so beautifully the power of doing this work
It’s simple but not always that easy
AND the mind wants to figure it out make sense if it all, it never will.
It’s definitely not for the faint hearted and definitely not woo woo
It’s helped me move through a very difficult time in my life recently and I’m surprisingly more grounded and compassionate from working through the book
And doing it again
The reality around me has changed dramatically and I’m teaching my body to lean into discomfort and understand integration is happening and most of all learning to trust more body and its intelligence
Which has nothing to do with the minds ‘thinking it knows best’ illusions
This means I’m NOT STORING energetic charges from traumatic events from my past as I had been, therefore my body is better off for it and I’m noticing certain pains have diminished in my lower back.
I’ve worked with some powerful teachers in my 50 years of life and there are clear correlations between Levine/Gabor and this work in relation to strengthening the N.S and also integration of emotions to support the body and allow it to follow its intelligence back to homeostasis
This is my humble opinion from completing it a few times. It’s incredibly useful.
