How can you not be concerned when you’re in pain every single day?
It could be the journey of a life time! It’s almost as if the mind decides that a physical pain is preferable to an emotional one. When I’m in the chair (and sometimes even when I’m not, now), my mind goes to places it doesn't usually go. It may be time to break into that run! In Healing Back Pain (and his other books), Dr Sarno introduces the concept of Tension Myositis Syndrome (TMS). Accepting it. In this way, they are sending two contradictory messages to the brain - one that their pain is only TMS and is harmless, and the other that their body is damaged and prone to get worse with physical activity. About Books none To.
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Even though lots of new research has been done about the mind-body connection and how the brain works since Healing Back Pain was written, I often find myself coming back to the solid foundation Dr Sarno established for learning about TMS. It helped that my bolt of insight was corroborated by the fact that I started to feel dramatically better. Reminding yourself about this will help you with reminders 7 and 8 - since TMS is harmless, then you need not fear physical activity, because there’s no injury or degenerative condition that you can make worse. We could, at least, not add insult to injury with pointless and expensive testing, therapies, and surgeries that are all about finding and fixing structural problems that are mostly not there, or not the real problem. While I was reading Healing Back Pain, it dawned on me for the first time that it might actually be possible to live a different life to the pain-filled one I’d landed up in. Unfortunately, though, things get complicated by the fact that most of us, most of the time, aren’t even aware that we’re repressing our emotions.
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They would be expecting the pain to decrease while being overly careful of their movements, avoiding certain activities that they think may cause pain.
Numbers 7 and 8 - these often pose the biggest challenge when dealing with TMS. If this is resonating with you, and you’re already curious about exploring how TMS / MBS may be playing out in your life, contact me today. Yeah. If yes, could this be keeping you stuck in the pain cycle?