My feelings are too visceral even the awareness that I'm safe won't stop the shaking and tense feelings

This is exactly what I am doing now. I avoided many things for the last 5-6 months. I am slowly reintroducing everything. Thanks for your reassurance.

Amazing as always jim!

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I dont think its helpful to say its psychological. I find it more helpful to remind myself that the thinking habits and the symptoms are just well worn neural pathways and I am crearing new ones of safety.

I feel really sorry for chronic pain patients. It makes zero sense to me that if we can't figure out what is going on with someone, that it is automatically deemed central sensitization. That type of thinking goes against the fundamentals of science. If we don't know what something is, we don't know what something is. We don't throw it into a central sensitization bucket because we can't figure it out. Central sensitization should be a rule in condition with objective diagnostic testing. Medicine is in the Stone ages, relatively speaking, when it comes to diagnosing conditions. There are numerous unknown conditions out there for which we do not have objective testing for yet. But yet, we're going to throw it into the central sensitization bucket which can harm the person. And this mantra of being against pharmaceutical options is flat out dangerous. So many people are going to lose their lives because of this dangerous rhetoric, and that's all this is. It's a bunch of pseudoscientific nonsense that is spreading like a cancer, harming patients everywhere.

Flooding? You have to be very careful with that.

The shit ive been going thru since 2017. .....I cannot even begin to explain. Its maddening. It all began with a very big burnout which culminated with a huge freeze.

I almost gave up after three weeks with no results and then my back pain went away and my shoulder hurt for no reason. Thats when I became a believer. Every time one pain went away another came up untill my brain gave up.

My cns goes on over drive when ever I decide to go out, so I know it's my brain sending signals of danger , it annoys me because I look forward to going out,

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Hi Jim I have cough hypersensitivity how do I approach this with the cough? I have sensations in my breathing and through movement and wanting to cough every breath. It has truly been debilitating. My throat is hypersensitive, airways, lungs and nose. Amongst other symptoms and sensations and pain. It has morphed and spread. Do I cough? When I tend to do that it just makes the cough even worse. I am trying all the tools but unsure how to combat this when it’s coming from all angles. And unsure whether to suppress the cough. It has only got worse if I don’t suppress it. I have managed to come off all meds including morphine gabapentin and diazepam. They were only closing down pain pathways that I needed to close manually. Help needed. Many thanks x

Thank you, Chris ❤

Jim, Your insights and explanations are BRILLIANT! Thank you so much for making these videos. I so appreciate it.

Nice video. I think this applies to confronting the inner world too. I was out doing stuff but still had many chronic symptoms, it was my inner world I was afraid of and avoiding.

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U were born gay brotha. The abuse and fear and anxiety the bullying and all that happened to you in your younger days turned u. I know many people same thing happened to them

Dude I just got mind fukkt when Chris began to talk lol 😆

Well done Chris and Jim. Where can I find guidance on how and where to start with journaling? It’s something I either avoid or feel I have nothing to write about despite the prompts from things like Curable guidance. Yet, I feel certain emotions set off and flare symptoms in my body. Thanks

My story is so similar…. To get out I tried curable, the book the way out, and Nicole Sachs work,

You are a very gentle and wise teacher, Jim. I've only discovered your channel in the past week or so. I've worked on TMS issues for years, primarily using the strategies recommended by Dr. Sarno. I've read and re-read all his books, along with others (Schechter, Schubiner). My current TMS issue is on top of a MRI diagnosis of "subtle fracture" of a rib (#8) after lifting the 90 lb. body of my dog last month after the vet put her to rest. As you can imagine, very emotional experience for me, but I am a typical "goodist" and just forged ahead in survival mode. So, along with a fractured rib I had incredibly painful muscle spasms while trying to sleep. IMPOSSIBLE! After the past 3 weeks realizing I have TMS on top of an actual injury which I know will heal, I am doing tons of journalling, emotional processing (lots of tears, rage, etc. and fear, guilt) and during the daytime I am 90% painfree. As nighttime approaches, I begin to feel pain in my side and back, but I can still fall asleep, which I wasn't able to do 3 weeks ago. Now what happens is I am awakened by the pain in the middle of the night. I try to not overreact. Sometimes I just get up and have coffee, journal, even though it's 4 a.m. The pain subsibes within minutes after I get up. I am going to try your suggestions of not reacting to the primary reaction (pain)...just talk back to it. Shut the door on it. Say, "Ok, I know you're there but I don't care!" I'm anticipating if I can do this, eventually the pain will back down and leave me...if I don't react to it.

Love you thank you. Could never work out why anger relieved symptoms momentarily

I love this video and listen to it over and over. Thank you so very much. 🙏❤️

Does this pertain to adrenal fatigue as well?

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Chris, you are right about keeping busy and hustling to keep the noise in our head quiet… bad idea 😅 I did that for YEARS! I would play podcasts, hustle, excersize, ignore… I mean everything I could to avoid avoid AVOID the anxiety bc I didn’t know how else to deal with it. If I would bring it up to my family they would just laugh at me so I had no choice, at the time, to keep it to myself and push it down…. Until I couldn’t anymore 😵‍💫. This journey has helped me allow pain/anxiety/ sensations and learn to have self compassion. Thank you for sharing your testimony, it’s so relatable ❤

Thx for sharing Chris. Teachers are so under valued in our world like nurses.

I basically have all those patterns . No wonder why I have been in so much pain and suffering for the last 15 years .

You should look to the Polyvagal theory, parasympathetic can cause the freeze, faint/collapse states, so it’s not a word for relaxation

I am incredibly emotional. I cry often and feel things deeply, but I'm forced to supress it 99% of the time to exist in polite society. I wonder what a healthy amount of supression is vs unhealthy 🤔

My facial pain started after a series of emotional traumas. It has moved and changed in my face and temple and now both sides! I really do believe it's TMS but I'm not 100% sure. I'm doing an online somatic safety TMS class and just started with a pain reprocessing therapist. I hope to have her success!

I think that rage causes a number of issues not just pain. I have fixed a number of things because the brain keeps picking out other places that hurt. I would never let them operate.its amazing how the brain thinks its doing you a favor by causing pain to distract you from psychological problems.

His book pointed out in the1890s they hypnotised people they called histerics who could not move. They could now move until he brought them out of their trance. Now they could not move proving the proplem was in their head. He gave credit to Froyd and his students.

I BELIEVED when I fixed my back and my brain kept picking another spot to hurt.It took three weeks before my brain gave up.Dr Sarno was right, this seems to work better when your desperate for it to work.

You are so calm thank you for all your work. Never stop .

so if im doing some exposure like walking with cane instead of walker or doing aerobics and my symptoms go up to a 6 out of 10 with numbness in feet, pressure in legs and floaty or off balance in head and feel like I'm going to fall. Do I stop the movement or move thru it while responding to brain

Please Jim can you answer this. Can TMS actually cause chronic inflammation along with severe muscle spasms and burning in the upper neck ? I mean bloodwork inflammatory markers ? Since doctors don’t know wth the nervous system can actually do and also eventually imo cause disease since the spine does in fact trigger the NS can this happen? Or only TMS if it’s pain with no other hints ? It’s hard to tell because spasms can actually pull bones out which can cause inflammation

But I don't have control over relaxing my bladder muscles 😒 Does anyone???

In autism we have spd prior a different brainstem with heds

What does it mean if I am feeling dizziness in my head, sweating in my body and burning feet?

If something is so severely painful, how can you not think about it every minute?

This makes sense, yet hard to implement..,when it feels like there’s a resistance to relaxing all the way down..because it does feel scary and if it’s been a pattern, also harder to stick with positive awareness. But I keep Going, I know it’s a state and states pass

Why can’t I cry? I ant to cry so bad but am unable to

Simon, thanks for sharing your story; it's very helpful to so many of us. Happy to hear you found answers for your issues. Stay well !!!

What about unrelenting menopausal symptom involving itching. I have a list of doctor visits and a box of failed treatments

I 100% believe my symptoms are neuroplastic and I’m perfectly safe and have done for a while ( fatigue / weakness / aches ) I have days where I carry on as normal with life with the symptoms knowing this but then have worst symptoms the next day. Then I struggle to know what to do on those days. I try not to panic because I know I didn’t do anything dangerous, but I never know whether to carry on or rest ? That’s my sticking point atm

Most of the pain is trigger points always been emotional with having HF autism heds what's the link with SPD prior ? From birth?

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Thanks for the video. How do I reach out to u ?

As Jane Fonda said, "We are not meant to be perfect, we are meant to be whole". Our world esp from early to mid 1900s (maybe earlier) incl industrial age made emotions weak. But there was times for most to survive meant just ‘getting on with it ‘. Sadly didn’t evolve as our world did. Some diseases have been correlated with certain personality types incl repressed emotion and or people pleasing. Addiction too. IMO it played a part w/many family diseases incl cancer. Let’s hope it’s changing now with content like yours and others.