The Brain's #1 Job Survival

[@deepanjaliparida3133]

This TMS concept really works. I was devastated last November but this year I am completely happy and living my life fully. Huge respect and regards from my side ☺️

[@bchristopher2270]

Congrats!🎉

[@marieleak8731]

So happy for you. Congratulations.

[@valalolo]

this is one encouraging comment, thank you!

[@wendycopeland5147]

This gives me hope, thank you ❤

[@HopeinYahweh]

Same here! Yay :) I missed Thanksgiving & Christmas family gatherings last year but this year, only 5 months after teaching the brain I'm safe, I am getting my life back! Dan's approach is the best I've come across ♡

[@boostandflow4603]

Symptoms can also manifest as negative thoughts, dark thoughts, rumination, catastrophic thinking. Your brain can jump from one thing to another to maintain the fear.

[@robbienichols2712]

Yes. I think this is definitely one of my major sensations. I look forward to the calm to come and symptoms to abate .😊

[@PainFreeYou]

Yes, I say often that negative thoughts are just another symptom coming from a brain perceiving danger. kzbin.info/www/bejne/o2WTpo2NjsuliLM

[@jodyhb]

Man they are awful!!!!!!

[@peterm2372]

Hi Dan, thanks for all the great videos you’re putting out. Catching up on a few of them, and thought I’d comment on this one. I absolutely endorse what you’re saying about ‘Long Covid’. Having suffered this post-viral condition now for over 2 1/2 years, I can say with certainty that ‘Long Covid’ is not a virus. And yes, you are quite correct saying if people have a history of health issues and major health events in life (which I have had), the brain is more easily threatened by any potential health threat - no matter how big or small. Looking back over my life, I can now see why my recovery especially from viruses has taken longer than the average person. Having already done a course by Nicole Sachs based on Dr John Sarno’s work, childhood trauma definitely factors into this big time. Wish I had found your KZbin channel about two years ago, but I’m enjoying it now and benefiting greatly, and slowly improving. Thanks so much, Dan.

[@PainFreeYou]

Wonderful. Thank you for sharing your experience.

[@Inge508]

I have a friend who had a lovely safe childhood. Whenever she experiences a treat or difficult situation.. she just says: oh boy , I didn’t felt at EASE.. ( for me it would feel ⛔️ ⚠️ Danger) So she takes it easy on herself until she feels at ease again. I think words are so powerful and instead of me running from danger to safety, I will try her calm easy-going approach with all difficulties ( symptoms,experiences) that come my way. With being at ease: no DIS-EASE will find it fun to stay with me🌺

[@SusieV59]

I have known about my traumatic birth, and also being in hospital for 6 weeks at 13 months of age. My parents couldn't come to visit as they didn't have a car. It became just a story my mother told me, and I didn't take much notice or think too much about it until recently as I had become very depressed and was having some body problems. And these old memories came flooding back into my conscious mind. I have always been fearful and didn't know why. But now that I have done so much research on how the brain functions and the nervous system and had become aware that this had been hiding in my subconscious mind all these years and this programing had been the obstacle to my recovery. Now It no longer has any power to harm/hurt me. My brain had been wired to look out for threats in my environment from people, whether they were going to abandon me or hurt/harm me. All the protective modes and defences I lived with, people pleasing, acting brave when I was so scared, trying to appear perfect, being nice to everyone, and so much more. All that fear and pain that lived in me, felt like it was too much to bear at times. I now know the brain was only protecting me from these intense emotions that were trying to surface, until I felt safe enough inside myself to allow them to surface. They had been hidden away from my awareness (my conscious mind) all these years. The grief and sadness, guilt, anger, shame, the feeling that nobody loved me or wanted to have anthing to do with me. Sometimes it was so overwhelming, I began to isolate and distance myself from society. It was the pain and grief of the passing of my husband and others that brought to the light (conscious mind) these emotional traumas from all those years ago. I want to encourage every one to keep going and keep listening and implementing all Dan is teaching as it is so worth it. The results will come. One step at a time, slow and steady, breathe and start believing that it is possible to become healthy once again in our body, minds, emotions and spirit. Sending Love and blessings to everyone.

[@Inge508]

Your story resonates so much with mine sweet Susie! What a wonderful job you did to finally put all the pieces of your puzzle 🧩 together and found true healing. I believe this is the way for so many of us. Thanks for sharing this with us ❤

[@1STBUCKLEY]

100% agree with you. I was in a oxygen tent age 5.5. my 6.5yr old sister didn't survive. All pushed away for decades. Fear abandonment, people pleasing etc. It has taken major traumatic events for me to start letting stuff go. Wishing you happiness 🙏

[@kateking3953]

Love to you to. We're all valid and valuable, and our lives are our gift. Memory, as per my conversation with Inge, is such an extraordinary thing. If open the skull for brain surgery, or dissect a brain, no evidence there of the story of our lives. And yet it's all in there. But we can always start at ground zero and create a new existence and a new future. xx

[@Inge508]

@@kateking3953beautifully articulated ❤❤❤🙏

[@SusieV59]

​@@kateking3953Thanks Kate. I had an NDE in 1986 having my twins. C/section. Our bodies are like a suit of clothing. We are always alive. Our life here on earth is a gift. Our spirits are the all knowing parts of ourselves.

[@michelefinizio6520]

😊 thank you for that reminder I do have a sensitive brain due to hypervigilance fight and flight health anxiety so I need to convince my brain I'm ok and be calm.

[@Inge508]

´close the gates with consistent safety ´ And SLOW is SAFE 🌺 Love it ! Have a wonderful weekend Dan and everyone ❤

[@PainFreeYou]

Thank you Inge.

[@Inge508]

They used to say: ‘ one Apple 🍎 a day keeps the doctor away.. Nowadays in mindbody it’s : one Dan- video a day keeps the doctor away..!❤😂

[@AleG-m4i]

Amazing

[@PainFreeYou]

Awww - thanks Inge.

[@Inge508]

@ one nice comment a day keeps Dan’s stress away❤️🙋‍♀️

[@PainFreeYou]

@@Inge508 Haha - yes, thank you.

[@shelbypals9225]

A dan a day keeps me on track. Thank you Dan!

[@PainFreeYou]

Haha - Thank you.

[@jasminewallis8340]

Thank you so much, Dan. I’m struggling and at the beginning of my healing journey (POTS, other various unnerving symptoms). However, I just know I will get better. I can’t explain it but it’s just a gut feeling that I will heal. I envisage telling my story on this channel one day, maybe even next year (if you’ll have me😂). Thank you!!!!!

[@PainFreeYou]

Of course - I will have any success story on my channel.

[@wendycopeland5147]

Im terrified of my brain Dan, the intrusive thoughts (stinking thinking) it conjures up are so bizarre & scary & when im in an anxiety spiral (daily) I believe them to be true. When im rational (not often) i can see them for what they are, they are complete BS! Love your videos, im trying to teach my brain messages of safety as seen in one of your previous videos, thank you for helping us ❤

[@PainFreeYou]

Try not to be terrified. Even the negative thoughts are a symptom of a brain perceiving danger. You don't have to believe those thoughts. kzbin.info/www/bejne/d2e9Z36FbMdjoqc

[@wendycopeland5147]

Thanks Dan ❤ the video you linked is amazing, I'm going to listen to it often! Thank you so much

[@NEChristo]

I just canceled an orthopedic appointment with a new doctor that I had waited to get into for 3 1/2 months…a little nervous but also feeling empowered. I’ve had surgery (didn’t help) many diagnostic tests (just keeps showing the same stuff) injections (didn’t help) medications (don’t help) so why am I going back to the doctor, even a new one? I’m all in with this approach. Nothing else makes sense.

[@JuliePeterson-12345]

I just cancelled with the rheumatologist. It will be wasted money and time to even go. This joint pain is TMS (labs all negative) and he’s not happy I won’t take the meds they are offering anyway. I began on obsession of going to different doctors to try and “fix” me when there is nothing they can do. It’s all inside myself

[@stevebrown-bz5ry]

I hav suffered this hypervigilance problem... Anxiety bringing on symptoms.... Changes your life... Its dreadful. My problem now.. Is after a bad fall.. Broken wrist.. Partial knee ligament tear.... I've been supporting myself with a wheelie walker..... I KNOW my knee is improving.. Physio making it stronger... But I'm damned if I can giv up my walker.... Its become my security blanket.... And just feel unsafe unless I have it... I am terrified of falling again... My brain is trying to protect me... But.. How on earth do I learn now to trust my body.. And start walking unaided again.

[@PainFreeYou]

Gradually Steve. One step at a time. Watch the stories you are telling yourself. Try not to predict the worst.

[@jazznutz]

Not for a long time pain has trained me to go slowBeen in slow motion for years.

[@kateking3953]

I have to say that's a fantastic simplification of the brain and its functions. The brain is divided into many different sections, responsible for different functions, like movement and speech, fluid and electrolyte balance, cell mitosis, behaviour (ie see problems with disinhibition due to frontal lobe disease of dysfunction), food waste elimination etc. To talk about the brain as if its a person like some sort of samurai bent on survival, is to massively underestimate its functions. We've only just begun to understand brain function, and still no-one is able to say where the seat of consciousness resides. You can do PET scans, watch various areas of the brain light up with emotional stimulation, but studying the anatomy of brains doesn't reveal consciousness. Many years ago, working in a London hospital, I was friends with someone doing work on dementia and PET scan research. She said in deep dementia the entirety of the identity is lost. Where there is consciousness? The physical function might be ticking over, but that's all. I think it's nearer to the quantum notion of a field and, as Dispenza says, matter follows energy and vice versa. We are what we think, but for more complex reasons than we grasp. Thought provoking stuff!!

[@Inge508]

It’s indeed crazy how complex the brain actually is.. but in the case of mind - body issues, if you unravel the polyvagal theory ( Porges 2011), it’s really rather easy to see how one’s nervous system can be dysregulated through all kind of adversity in childhood..and further on in life. Therefore installing safety back in the system on all levels IS a simple way out of mindbody related issues, I think.. Not THE truth , just my thoughts 🌺

[@1STBUCKLEY]

Thought provoking or fear inducing text. It's not underestimating the brain it's putting it in laymen terms. We are not neurologists. Been under London teaching hospital for gastro issues and they say they are only on the outer edges of the brains abilities. One answer raises more questions. Maybe in a few decades we will have more answers. Some things will never be found out..

[@kateking3953]

@@Inge508 Hi Inge, I totally agree about nervous system dysregulation. Each hemisphere of the brain has an amygdala beneath it, and these are responsible for stress, emotion, fear/fight/flight/threat, These, together with other parts of the brain form the limbic system, which as a whole, if one could call such a moving energetic entity 'whole , are responsible for emotional response and memory. These are where our central nervous system responses originate. But I think it's more complex than that by a long way. Mushrooms have memory, lichen can relate to other living organisms. We're groping in the dark most of the time! It's fascinating isn't it. A beloved friend, dead many years, used to say 'it's all energy darling'. She was very wise and connected to her soul. xx

[@Inge508]

@@kateking3953it’s beyond fascinating Kate! Your past friend sounded lovely ❤

[@kateking3953]

@@1STBUCKLEY I don't think there's anything frightening about learning who and what and how we are. The more we understand, the better we're able to manage it when things go wrong. Absolutely agree on the brain's spectacular abilities, and fascinated that things that are neuro like Parkinson's are able to respond to neuroplastic rewiring (The Brain that Heals Itself - Norman Doidge). I worked with a dementia specialist long ago at Charing Cross, and then in neurology at the John Radcliffe, and I'm none the wiser at all!! I think I agree with Deepak Chopra and Dispenza, who come at it from their own angles, but both say it's about the quantum field. That's how the rest of nature operates, in relation to everything around it. Why would human beings be any different? We're trees and horses and mushrooms with different abilities and genetics, but part of the same field. But what clear is that dementia eradicates all of it. I've seen it in someone I knew who was a dear, bright, funny and beloved person. Everything was wiped from the slate. We must treasure our time, it's so brief and so precious.xx

[@AuroraDushku]

Today my whole body is crazy burning 🔥….everywhere with no stop…i am in a flare up badly! Don’t know. I am doing all my best and i am getting worse again..Gets slightly better and boom gets more and more intense .😞

[@AuroraDushku]

I feel I can’t deal anymore now! 😞🥵

[@Inge508]

@@AuroraDushku I feel you Aurora! Sending you love and strength. Don’t try to control the burning pain.. it’s not dangerous but very uncomfortable. Try to self soothe and calm down as much as possible. It will settle down again!🙏❤️

[@PainFreeYou]

I'm sorry to hear you are struggling. Below are a few "flare" videos. How you respond to the intense times is key to having them settle down quicker. kzbin.info/www/bejne/g3mZYoFsf5iKjdU kzbin.info/www/bejne/epaoiZeMos-BfJI kzbin.info/www/bejne/nIGygHSjjcqtjLc

[@deniseealy4253]

I’m so sorry. Try to remain calm and trust that this is temporary. I am praying for you Aurora❤️💕

[@bchristopher2270]

Dan has thankfully made videos for bad days. Give them a watch. They always pass when we allow them completely.

[@LiseBenson]

Very helpful

[@PainFreeYou]

Glad it helped

[@clintsturgill7087]

Awesome

[@elizabethtara7658]

Pushed through on light gym class after a year ' its trying to flare up !

[@AleG-m4i]

Dan what do u think about supplements for example for digestive imbalances from anxiety, slippery elm, digestive enzymes, celery juice, etc or are all these labels of something is wrong with me hence won’t pass. Maybe as u say “don’t over complicated things”, let the body do its thing, provided we eat properly of course. Sometimes adding supplements creates more fears in the sense that “if I don’t take it, or maybe it bothers me”, you enter into another anxiety loop. I guess supplements, visiting more aquanapuncturists or else are all adding stress! Your clip is spot on thanks anyways, my question was different to this was just about supplements …

[@PainFreeYou]

I believe a brain that feels safe knows how to operate the body quite well. Being in fear causes a suppression of the digestive system. Focus on safety.

[@roddog4386]

Can this work for gut infection I'm on antibiotics for hpylori

[@PainFreeYou]

Digestion and immunity are suppressed when in the fight or flight stress response. There is no downside to teaching the brain you are safe and not fearing the gut symptoms. It is likely that the hpylori is the result of a suppressed digestion system and not the cause of the symptoms.

[@ShaneFindlay-w2u]

Would formacations and muscle twitches fall under the umbrella of TMS?

[@melissaellzey7550]

Dr. Schubiner and Dr. Steve Ozanich both have a TMS list. Muscle twitching is TMS

[@PainFreeYou]

yes - the best way to know is to do the assessments. IsThisTMS.com - but your symptoms are common.

[@ShaneFindlay-w2u]

@ Ok. Thank you, Melissa.

[@Lenneke8422-b3t]

Ty Dan great video ❤❤❤

[@Inge508]

Have a lovely weekend dear Lenneke ❤

[@Lenneke8422-b3t]

@Inge508 ty so much lieverd en jij ook ❤️😘🙏

[@suzanneheincreations]

Yes, thank you for your videos. We struggle to overcome but need to relax… is it a paradox? Wondering how many of us have ADHD. God bless. It may take me longer than others but I’m leaning on the Lord, and know for sure it has an end point when I get to Heaven. Hoping for a miracle too. ❤

[@PainFreeYou]

Many in this journey have ADHD and anxiety. You can still get well. DansFastStart.com is a great place to begin.

[@Fern7441]

So do we say to ourselves all day long this is just tms nothing to worry about then ignore it?

[@daniella4889]

While I did enjoy your video I greatly disagree with your take on Covid 19. It can lead to real and structural complications. I would know. Inflammation of my frontal lobe diagnosed by a SPECT MRI by a leading neurologist. Not to mention the people with organising pneumonia, myocarditis, pericarditis just to name a few conditions

[@ezza1236]

Ur an idiot Daniella

[@PainFreeYou]

Glad to be of service!!!

[@ezza1236]

This persons comments are so negative , go back to ur forums

[@ezza1236]

I love you Dan