I think to challenge significant symptoms you have to be equal parts daredevil and philosopher, especially of the fatalist persuasion. TMS self-treatment when you get right down to it demands a kind of wisdom, which of course is not to say that we're in any way wise. Certainly not me. But when you strip away all the noise and hoo-hah, we're asking ourselves merely to do what we should be doing anyway...that is approaching life's problems with a sense of proportion and scale. And above all, a sense that we're all in the long run doomed anyway. No sense in sweating the small stuff, which pretty much everything is. Even the big stuff is small when we look at it in the right way.
This of course is not easy. Not worrying is contrary to every human instinct we have. What are we but the sum total of millions of years of evolution which in its relentless wisdom has determined that the worriers among us tend to survive. Trouble is, we're not in the jungle any longer. Lacking wild animals and marauding enemy hordes to worry about, we inflate the little things, things that can't kill is for the most part, to an absurd extent. I honestly don't think that qualitatively speaking, there's much difference between the fear, dread, and panic I sometimes feel over a stupid running injury than what I would feel over a possible fatal illness. In fact, I know that to be true based on a cancer scare I had last year. IN some ways, and this is kinda funny, I actually took that better. So. it's ok for me to croak but not to miss a few weeks of running? One has to laugh..
Anyway. Lately I'm struggling with a hamstring issue, the 3rd in a series of them. There are some very compelling arguments on the side of it being TMS, but as always there are no guarantees, and the downside of running with a genuine hamstring injury is steep.
But I'm going to go for it today. It's been bothering me increasingly with just swimming, and since I'm using different movements for that (frog kick mostly) that shouldn't it seems to me stress it in any meaningful way, I'm just gonna do it.
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Beyond TMS
Posted - 07/11/2011 : 09:20:03
