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Livvygurl
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 Posted - 07/21/2012 : 19:10:24
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In my left rib cage area I have some tight muscles that feel like a bunch of knots, they have been residing in this particular area for about 10 years. I am trying to be more physical and incorporate more normal activities into my life. I am thinking this body symptom may just disappear, melt away. Shall I get out my journal? What advice do ya’ll have on sending these knots away. Also I just picked up a schedule for dance classes, so fun is just around the corner…  |
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drh7900
USA
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Posted - 07/24/2012 : 09:32:21
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Whatever is going to work for you to be able to focus on the emotions and not on the pain...whether that's journaling (which forces focus on writing), or having some fun activity to go to like dance classes!
It's been a few days since you posted this...hope that means improvement!
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Livvygurl
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Posted - 07/25/2012 : 11:45:49
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Hi Dustin,
Update:
My neck started hurting last night from a trigger that I am conditioned to react to and the pain continued on. Today I had an interesting journaling experience, I did the non-dominant hand technique and wrote about some heavy issues. As I was writing I just coped with the pain and was able to release a little bit of sadness. I tried every trick in the book to rid the pain but just dealt with the uncomfortable neck stiffness. My strategy at that point was to plan a self-care evening at home involving some relaxation. I was craving to see my chiropractor (+ he is a cool guy) so he could “put my neck back in” all the while I was telling myself that would only be a temporary fix. At home, I looked around for my relaxation stint and ended up sitting cross-legged in front of a big mirror. I was facing myself in two senses of the word: emotionally and physically. I talked out loud to myself in an empathic way and said “you’ve been through a lot”. I also spoke to myself about my anger and then sobbed while looking into my own eyes with compassion. I stood up and my neck pain released! Yahoo!  |
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drh7900
USA
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Posted - 07/25/2012 : 12:08:22
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Awesome! Great to hear. I hadn't heard of the non-dominant hand technique. But...just from what I know about the hemispheres of the brain and being familiar with the psychological processes behind EMDR, I can see how that might help. Interesting thought. I always do journaling on a keyboard (computer) when I do it...maybe I need to consider writing instead...and going back and forth between dominant and non-dominant hands.
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Livvygurl
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SteveO
USA
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Posted - 07/25/2012 : 22:13:10
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Hi Livvy girl, I tell people to get up on the other side of the bed in the morning, and write with the other hand, and play some old music from the past, do as many things sdrawkcab as possible.
This breaks what has been called the "neural set." If we perform the same things every day and think the same way this engenders the same impulses and information of energy, each day. It's sometimes necessary to break the conditioned response by altering behavior. This alone does not necessarily reverse TMS but it's a start.
TMS doesn't come from a conversion process or from the reduction of the psychological to the physical. So as the good doctor said, "behavioral therapy is singularly ineffective in stopping TMS."
Livvy, if your back is tight you hold your tension there. You need a good massage and some good music and some relaxation CDs. I can provide all of those but I'm expensive...lol. Emmett Miller, MD, told me last week that he recommends his Abolish Anxiety Now, CD. If anyone tries it let us know how it is. His other work saved my life and helped heal me but it's out of print now.
SteveO
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Livvygurl
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Posted - 07/26/2012 : 11:01:13
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SteveO,
Good idea, they have some awesome Louise Hay CDs at the library. By the way, I am really enjoying your book - it is helping me to recover!! And hey if you are in Seattle, and I have the extra cash I’ll definitely take you up on that massage offer
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Hillbilly
USA
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Posted - 07/26/2012 : 12:21:27
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TMS doesn't come from a conversion process or from the reduction of the psychological to the physical. So as the good doctor said, "behavioral therapy is singularly ineffective in stopping TMS."
SteveO,
I suppose Dr. Sarno's reason for saying this is, as Dr. Zafirides has opined, that his understanding of psychology was based geographically in a hotbed of Freudian therapists. The fact that I and many others have recovered fully using CBT or ACT as their guide seems to directly refute the statement above. There was no dealing with repressed emotions at all, just simple self-discipline of thought and action, coupled with the understanding of what the symptoms were. Everything else is marketing.
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"Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving."
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balto
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Posted - 07/27/2012 : 07:21:55
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My thought is whatever "methods" one used and "cured" one's self of a mind body syndromes, one would believe that method to be the right one, the correct one, the ultimate solution.
If you learned from Sarno and you "cures" yourself using his teaching then you would worship him. If you "cures" yourself using Claire Weekes' teaching then she would be your idol, your grandma... so on and so on.
There are many mind body medicine teacher out there and they all have their own believers, their own followers. A few I can think of at the moment are: Dr Herbert Benson and his teaching on Meditation, Kehoe and his teaching on Mind power, Eckhart Tolle and his "living in the Now" teaching,...
People cured themself or get much better using one of the teaching. they saw the results, they felt it, they square by it, it became their "belief" and it would be near impossible to change their mind.
My thouhgt is it doesn't matter what or who they believe in, once they start to believe that their illness has an emotional cause and loose their fear of it, they will get better eventually.
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Dave
USA
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Posted - 07/30/2012 : 09:09:27
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Originally posted by balto
My thouhgt is it doesn't matter what or who they believe in, once they start to believe that their illness has an emotional cause and loose their fear of it, they will get better eventually.
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