How to Deal with Symptom Flare-ups and Your Worst Days

[@R116_]

Thank you for being here during my worst flare-ups. I'm alright, it just hurts, which is temporary. I'll be fine again

[@kathleenwharton2139]

I have to do a lot of Self-Soothing! Relax. Breathe. I remind myself this often..because I have been tense for 30 years!

[@fingerprint5511]

Tense for over 25 here, wow did it do damage!

[@helenw8019]

I had a flare up today and really found it hard to think positively. I had quite a good day yesterday and was mostly pain free but then the pain was bad today and I feel like my positive mindset took a nose dive and I've been catastrophising all day. But this video has helped get me back on track. Thank you!

[@lunch_meats_etc]

thank you for your calm, consistent presence and wisdom. these videos have helped me tremendously

[@sergiogomez6]

This is amazing stuff and great tips but it’s soooooooooo damn hard to by pass cervical neck issues that give me anxiety and head pressure and feeling of faint. It’s really difficult to turn those off after 25 months of 24/7 issues with this. However I must say , I google every day , I get lost in Facebook resource groups and I live in constant anger about these issues. I am attempting TMS with Nichole Sachs but I don’t understand it to well it’s confusing

[@joechristie506]

Jim. Really stoked on your videos. Have listened to about 5 already and have been super helpful in relaxing and recovering from a knee that flared. Great job and keep it up!

[@larryc506]

I was on the road to recovery last year using the TMS approach. Suddenly I had a marital problem that led to separation that put me flat on my back in pain! I’ve been using somatic tracking and practicing indifference to the symptoms all along since the separation but the pain still persists and it’s disabling. This video gives me hope Jim, thanks

[@amyrydell2715]

Thank you so much for this. Lately I’ve been having some of the worst flare ups of my life but your video is really helping

[@christinehart8018]

When the student is ready … so we’ll for three days. At bottom of rabbit hole. Having hard fall May have added. Will following your directions. Thank yo, Jim. 😥🙏🏼🤞

[@eileenlocke7877]

Thank u from the uk 🇬🇧 Jim I’m practicing not easy but I’m trying

[@robertmic8601]

Excellent videos - thank you ! I use these strategies and find they work well . I also have “ emergency pain plan “ whereby I practice what i will do if there is a flare up - so essentially i “pretend “ im having a massive pain flare and practice what i will do , so that way it is embedded in my memory better.

[@anjas686]

Again so helpful. For around 2 Weeks I am practicing the approach and your Videos help me so much - Like no doctor before. Thank you for Sharing all your knowledge in such an easy-to-use way 🙏

[@jessicanilsson2437]

Hi do you got anixety ? Fatigue ?

[@jellewils3974]

Found this on a hard day. Thank you, I love you

[@Lenneke8422-b3t]

Hi Jim having a huge flare up feel sad and hopeless and fearful I am calm my breathing is low and carry on with my day as normal as possible because I am in charge ❤❤❤

[@hew195050]

Always a thumbs up Jim!!

[@yasnitac82]

Thank you. I needed to hear this.

[@aliv83]

Your amazing. Thank you. 💕

[@JohnHenrySheridan]

Thank you Jim !

[@chriscampbell703]

Love the videos, they help alot. Thank you!

[@bethhenderson9154]

Thank you!!

[@brendabergeron8655]

Your videos are so helpful!! Thank you!!

[@dili319]

Hi Jim, I have been following your videos and doing all the work somatic tracking Journaling and I am almost at the end of this thing. But yesterday I don't know what happened, it was like a hurricane came in and set me back so far, I had this so under control and I feel like I forgot how to do the work, I saved this video and will watch again today. Is it normal to have this happen when you are almost pain free for you to have this big of set back? I been at this 7 months following you and Alan Gordon, thank you for all you do!

[@edwinaastley6421]

Right in it Jim. Super helpful. Thank you

[@scottyg5403]

Wow! Another excellent video full of great advice! Thank you!

[@jossjekraayvanger7131]

Big flare after some more fysical activity yesterday. Happens often...

[@JMTBFLOW]

Cheers Jim 👍

[@MsAnchovey]

I didnt think we could express how we really feel during a flare up. I'm glad because that made it so I could relax more. I guess we shouldn't ruminate for a long time on how we feel, right? Acknowledge for a little while then start the other ideas you mentioned?

[@thepainpt]

Yes acceptance is non doing. Do some fun stuff forget about for awhile. When you do have attention on it embrace it to erase it. Don’t do anything- just allow what is there to pass through as best ya can

[@MsAnchovey]

Thank you!

[@AcesOntheRiver]

Thanks for all the videos. Have been helpful. Is your philosophy applicable to chronic neck tension resulting in tension headaches?

[@thepainpt]

Yes of course tension is the word you mention which is related to stress. A lot of pain in the body is related to tension not structural issues

[@woodfloorsjohnny]

MASSIVE Flare up Since YESTERDAY..ugh

[@jessicanilsson5941]

I have Cptsd and lonlienessfeelings, and wake up paralyzed

[@hew195050]

JIM, I’ve been feeling the pain and doing whatever I want to do anyway knowing I’m ok. There’s one glitch tough that’s frustrating as heck. The next day, no matter how long I sleep, I’m exhausted out of my mind. This is a common symptom for years and it’s my payback for “doing too much”. what can I do with that???

[@thepainpt]

You have to teach your brain it’s not too much. Relax soothe settle your system talk to your brain. Focus on the brain not the pain. Keep going!

[@teatimetraveller]

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[@ToniToni-kg4ue]

Question...This is a great video, thank you so much. I've been ill with influenza for the past 2 weeks. From coughing my pelvis has tweaked. I have a small around 10deg S curve scoliosis and that is where my body has chosen to give me pain sensations. The fact that I can "see" this crooked/unevenness is what absolutely freaks me out. I can both feel the twist or pull sensation it causes and see it. I am aware of my holding habbit pattern of going into that pattern when tense, stressed, anxious etc and I assume I've done it since a young child (now 46) and that's perhaps what's caused my spine to curve. How do I feel safe and like my pain is not causing damage when I can see this twist. Thanks again for such great offerings :)

[@greg_nicholls]

I'm in the midst of a flare up and worried that, by focusing on the emotions caused by the symptoms, I could be making things worse..? I thought the best approach to symptoms was to not feed it with attention.

[@thepainpt]

Yes not feed the physical symptoms. But you do want acknowledge and express any emotions that may have contributed to or caused the physical symptoms.

[@cdracos1]

All day, everyday flare, that peaks at certain times ?

[@dr.amitabhamukherjee3601]

What about a bad flare up that comes on just as you are dozing off to sleep? Is it possible to ignore it, relax and just let it be, even when you know 'nothing is damaged down there'? What if the symptoms grind on through the night and keep you awake? You soldier on and tell yourself this is just a bad day (night)?

[@joesedlacek7552]

Jim ,I’m reaching out to you with a question . When I walk I’m ok when I hit a certain distance the back and leg pain begins the further I go the stronger the pain this has been going on for a few years now. How do I relax when I’m walking? I was told that walking would help me to relax.; it just seems to cause the flare up. What can you suggest? Thanks for any advice you could provide.

[@roddog4386]

Wil this work for tinintus etc

[@jessicanilsson5941]

But why is the body paralyzed and in pain and when u do Something it Comes day after

[@jojocjow377]

Hi Jim, I have a flared up today; I keep to reassure myself I'm safe, I'm ok. If I talk to my pain or acknowledge I feel frustration, is it I put attention on it? We are not suppose to give any attention to the symptom, right? Thanks.

[@thepainpt]

Move to the emotions and feel them and let them be expressed

[@jojocjow377]

Thank you Jim:)

[@jeanhannah9809]

@@thepainpt What does 'express' mean in this context? Crying if you feel sad for example?

[@roddog4386]

What about med damage wd sxs

[@Sketch1994]

Have you ever had a 3-4 month flare up? I guessed so...

[@jessicanilsson2437]

Hi have always a tens body ..when relax all my symptoms and anixety flare up ? How to learn body to relax? Is is to learn body to relax ? Can it be like a normal status then ?

[@wednesdayschild3627]

I wonder if this is why some women are so bad in menopause and others are not so bad. It might be added fear.

[@joesedlacek7552]

Why do you say reply with any questions when you don’t answer any? I had one question 2 weeks ago and you never replied. If you don’t want to answer then don’t say ask questions. Sorry if I seem rude, just frustrated.

[@morathanan]

Bro, your videos are great, but you gotta do something about this constant blinking of yours

[@diehardpatriot3]

LOL! Maybe it’s his symptom imperative haha. Either way his videos are incredibly helpful 😃

[@MsAnchovey]

Just listen to him.

[@terrysims1809]

I never noticed the blinking. I am so focused on what he's saying. It has helped me tremendously...

[@hew195050]

He isn’t perfect but that he wants to help us is perfect enough for me.

[@massagepublications]

So helpful Jim ❤ every time I have a flare up this is my go to video. Thanks for your generosity

[@jessicanilsson5941]

I have Cptsd and lonlienessfeelings, and wake up paralyzed