You need to activate the cortex to see your patterns and then choose a different response from the pattern so you can start to break it down. Reach out if you need support to heal. www.thepainpt....
So many people try to make money out of something like this. I am impressed, you are authentic, professional but also full of compassion. Very rare to see such authentic people on TH-cam. All others just want clicks…
Perfect advice for me right now. I am doing this active mind work atm and it's working a treat. I feel silly sometimes talking to myself but it's working and the pain is turning into a sensation now. Its not painful anymore just light tension so I know it's changing and sometimes not even there. 🥰
Yes you are doing it that’s living proof it’s working so keep going! Seeing it work should build more resolve and empowerment you which keeps helping to bring the symptoms down!!
Such an empowering, compassionate and helpful video Jim. It’s so good to hear about and be reminded of how and what keeps our symptoms in the driving seat. Listening to your words reminds me that I have to practice more often enabling the right parts of my brain to get in the driving seat and steer my healing in a proactive way. Today has been a tough day where I felt worn down by my symptoms and anxiety. .... you’ve given me the energy and reminders I need to take back control and stop the hijacking. Blessings. Clare
Hi Jim, thank you so much for this particular video, it's massively accurate in my opinion & in putting the advice into action over the last few weeks I've really noticed an improvement, despite being 26 years in with TMS. THIS is the key, right here in this wonderful video
I'm fairly new to mind/body symptoms. I have been challenging my pain and other symptoms more aggressively in the last couple of weeks. So this video was very helpful. It really resonated with me hearing you talking about not listening to my fears about my pain, by staying in my cortex. I'm seeing how much and how often I allow my amygdala to hijack me and control my behavior. Thanks for all your videos, I've watched many, they have been very helpful!
Hi. Just wondering how the CFS is now - a year later after your post. I also experience CFS & POTS. Do you think this work will help eliminate these chronic illnesses. The aren’t “pain”. They’re just extreme fatigue & no life force energy
Wip sawed around all day 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂. Idk why I’m laughing i know exactly how that feels to be jerked around all day by symptoms . It’s so funny tho. GREAT video Jim.
I had a breakthrough in the last 24 hours. Last night I realised how much I downplay my feelings and emotions. It’s a trauma response that I’ve carried since childhood and repeating patterns that were ingrained into me by parents who ignored my needs and blamed me for their own shortcomings. Even though I healed a lot of those traumatic times and events I still carry those old thinking patterns. Downplaying my own emotions and symptoms is keeping me stuck. I’ve been doing mind body work for several years and made progress on my mental health but not on my physiological health. Your video this morning reinforced the realisation I had last night about me downplaying my feelings and symptoms and not listening to how I feel and addressing it. The emotional pain outweighs the physical pain a million times and that’s not an exaggeration. I feel optimistic that changing this pattern of not accepting my emotional trauma and physical symptoms is going to lead to improvements in my health.
Yes great revelation and breakthrough! Accept that trauma response as a pattern which will loosen it up and then consciously choose to start embracing and opening to your feelings. Good job
@@thepainpt thank you! I’ve used your guided somatic processing video many times for the physical symptoms but I’ve never managed to do the emotional one without being overwhelmed by emotions. I’m working my way up to being able to handle that and as you say awareness of the pattern each time it arises will help it release 💙
I'm experiencing chronic dizziness and your videos are helping me so much! You explain these concepts really well so I can put it into action. Thank you :')
@@Truerealism747 that's so uplifting to hear thank you. I've really begun accepting it this past month and it's slowly but surely letting go. I hope you find relief from pain soon.
@@mayhorseradish Read Claire weekes I've had do many sycosmatic symptoms which I didn't no more did any my doctor's until Claire weekes and TMS but pain constant fear goes up.tell it to do it more and more NB push it till the room spins as long heart etc all been checked.when it goes though something else will replace it unless you work on the subconscious anxiety causing it
@@Truerealism747 I've read her! She was incredibly helpful in healing my anxiety as well as The Anxiety Guy on youtube. I've done somatic tracking until I felt awful and it helped a lot. I've been challenging myself by living my life anyways, healing past traumas and growing as a person slowly but surely it's getting better. One day I believe it will lift. Thank you for your words, it can get so discouraging sometimes.
@@mayhorseradish it can drs tell so many lies to what pulled me in I've got hypomobile joints to and I believe it's linked with anxiety bigger fear response in brain have you got this.bee perfectionistic same as my mother she has severe ms and I no that was started with stress.are you at midlife as I started at 5 with proctalgia fungax OCD now 42 fybro symptoms with loads in-between willing to help anyone where I can as someone may help me someday
HI Jack I've just discovered you having been doing the TMS approach for a year - your work is incredible, thank you, and really resonates with me. Realise I have been passive! However I am in pain all day long so how often should i be telling my brain to back off - as a general guide. Many thanks
Yes you have to get tough with a strong habitual brain that is programmed for symptoms. Saying no strongly and holding that line is important in your mind. You are teaching your reptilian brain or dog brain. So you need to be firm, consistent and in control just like teaching a dog a new habit
But I thought the pain or anxiety symptoms were body's way to communicate, meaning your subconscious is trying to tell you something. So shouldn't we be kind and compassionate, and instead of "not listening" to the anxiety or pain, shouldn't we be actually listening the part of ourselves? We don't have to react, but wouldn't it be better to respond by saying something like "I hear you, you are scared. Let me look around and assure you, you are okay"? I was never comforted growing up, and being ridiculed or laughed at for being afraid and scared. That meant I was ignored, and was not heard. So when you say "Don't listen," I end up taking it as "ignore the anxiety or pain."
Yeah, what you said is exactly true and correct. It’s just that for some people. Anxiety scares them so much that they think it’s dangerous when in fact, it’s just a perceived danger.
Hi, Jim. A question: I have severe dry eyes that is causing very serious eye problems. Could dry eye be a form of TMS and be helped by your theories and Dr. Sarno's??
At 3:30 you suggest what you can do with a pain flare as opposed to just sitting and taking it: 1) No, pain you are not controlling me today, 2) Pain take it easy, we are fine, take a break, relax. Yet I keep reading about "acceptance" of the symptoms. Can you expain that a bit more: acceptance vs telling the brain no we are not doing this today? Thanks
Yes it’s a good question I get all the time. you want to be trying to influence the limbic brain to convince it you’re fine and for it to stop what it’s doing. stay in your prefrontal cortex to do that. This is the self talk messaging. Then you face and accept what’s there after your messaging. You’re accepting it at that point because you want to show the brain that you’re fine and that what it’s giving you is not dangerous. Acceptance from a place of strength I’ve talked about this on another video. Its definitely is something I can review many people seem to be confused by the two approaches
@@thepainpt Thanks, yes it might be worth a separate video. So seems it's more like a two-step process: 1) First, tell the brain you are in control, that everything is ok, that there is no reason for the pain, etc then 2) Accept what sensations there are, and try to just fully live and not fear it or focus on it. Thank you so much
I do it exactly the other way around: Step 1: Let it be, don't react. Step 2: (when it comes down a little): address the brain that it should back off I agree that it's confusing, but I can only talk strongly to my brain when the pain has first been felt.
I got 2 months pain free very early on but it came back and I’ve been struggling for a few months now. I’m doing all the same things I did before but it doesn’t seem to be working anymore.
Hi,please could you talk about things sometimes getting worse before better?I've been doing brain work for many months now,and whilst I've seen some positive changes,I have had some really hard times too where it feels like my brain/body is resisting those changes.
Yes that means you’re doing a good job part of the healing journey involves this resistance. Where your limbic brain is going to fight back in a sense because that’s the pattern that’s in there you need to keep going until you break that down. This is when you need to double down on the techniques.
Thanks for the helpful information in your videos! I have a question. How do you handle the Sarno approach when you have a combination of TMS symptoms (some related to knees but other areas as well) plus real structural issues? I had a knee replacement last year and now one leg is slightly longer than the other and my body is trying to manage as I walk. The slight misalignment causes real physical stress (and discomfort) in my hips? I appreciate any insights you can give.
Yes maybe get a heel lift or something like that to equalize that should really help. Also if the leg length difference isn’t that severe than the body usually can adapt to it in time most people don’t have exactly the same leg length and have no problems
Would this tool be able to help someone who is going through benzodiazapine tapering that causes extreme chronic anxiety because the GABA receptors are down regulated resulting in multiple scary and debilitating symptoms…
I am a bit confused. Is this not at odds to the somatic tracking process where you sit with your pain and just notice it but don't actively react to it?
Yeah I answered this on another question I’ll do a video on it again because I’m getting a lot of questions. Somatic tracking is it form of nonreaction to what you feel. While self talk is a form of changing the neural pathways through responding
Trying to heal from Long Cove it. How do I be active when bouts of depression come on with heavy brain fog and tiredness.? I feel that all my energy is drained and my brain power goes down to 5%. I could barely think when this happened. So how do I become active about it but at the same time listen to my feelings?
Take Some time to feel your feelings stay calm do some somatic work and then see if you can get moving and challenge your symptoms with graded exposure. The key is to be consistent when you set up a program for yourself try their regulate your system in between
Dear Jim, I have a really important question I'd like to ask but a) it's a little bit personal and embarrassing and b) I'm not sure where to post it anyway (I mean I don't know which is the most 'relevant' of your videos). What would you suggest please? Hope this doesn't sound crazy! Thanks for all your great videos :-)
Hy gdmng sir! I have been practicing ur videos.. Seems helpfull but, still long to go.. I wanna know one more advice. Is this heal patterns also applicable to depression , anxiety and somatic symptoms? I mean can I heal depression anxiety and pain circuits by this method? Please comment on this sir 🙏
Yes absolutely all the things you mention are from altered brain signaling between the limbic brain and cortex and body. You can do it. I’ve got no over chronic pain myself and a lifelong time of anxiety
All this anthropomorphising -- "no, my dear Mr. Pain, I am not going to be triggered by your silly antics" etc. -- gets you nowhere in the face of a nasty flare-up, especially at the end of the day. You are simply at its mercy. The limbic system is by its very nature 'unconscious'; you can't shut it down by asking it to. The best you can do to send it a message is by BEHAVING in a manner that suggests you are unconcerned, unperturbed and indifferent. And that's easier said than done when the pain is going through the roof. Don't for a moment buy into this psychobabble BS.
So many people try to make money out of something like this. I am impressed, you are authentic, professional but also full of compassion. Very rare to see such authentic people on TH-cam. All others just want clicks…
Perfect advice for me right now. I am doing this active mind work atm and it's working a treat. I feel silly sometimes talking to myself but it's working and the pain is turning into a sensation now. Its not painful anymore just light tension so I know it's changing and sometimes not even there. 🥰
Yes you are doing it that’s living proof it’s working so keep going! Seeing it work should build more resolve and empowerment you which keeps helping to bring the symptoms down!!
Wow this video popped up in my feed at the right time. ❤❤❤❤. Thank you for the work you do.
You are fantastic at explaining, thank you!!
Such an empowering, compassionate and helpful video Jim. It’s so good to hear about and be reminded of how and what keeps our symptoms in the driving seat. Listening to your words reminds me that I have to practice more often enabling the right parts of my brain to get in the driving seat and steer my healing in a proactive way. Today has been a tough day where I felt worn down by my symptoms and anxiety. .... you’ve given me the energy and reminders I need to take back control and stop the hijacking. Blessings. Clare
Am coming fist time and I experienced what ever he says, no doubt he got real knowledge thank you sir for the education
For me its a moment by moment to be in charge. I like what you said we dont have to stay a victim by getting active. This is so true and Encouraging.
Hi Jim, thank you so much for this particular video, it's massively accurate in my opinion & in putting the advice into action over the last few weeks I've really noticed an improvement, despite being 26 years in with TMS. THIS is the key, right here in this wonderful video
Yes thanks I think it is key as well
I'm fairly new to mind/body symptoms. I have been challenging my pain and other symptoms more aggressively in the last couple of weeks. So this video was very helpful.
It really resonated with me hearing you talking about not listening to my fears about my pain, by staying in my cortex. I'm seeing how much and how often I allow my amygdala to hijack me and control my behavior. Thanks for all your videos, I've watched many, they have been very helpful!
Thanks keep going sounds like you are on your way to recovery!
Oh, I just LOVE this active technique! Parts of the brain talking to each other. Taking over and becoming powerful.
We are not gonna do that anymore , very powerful
Thank you! This was very helpful!
Thank you so much for this video! This is the tool I needed ,and can use immediately, on my recovery journey from chronic fatigue!
Yes it a big one. Take control!
Hi. Just wondering how the CFS is now - a year later after your post. I also experience CFS & POTS. Do you think this work will help eliminate these chronic illnesses. The aren’t “pain”. They’re just extreme fatigue & no life force energy
Wip sawed around all day 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂. Idk why I’m laughing i know exactly how that feels to be jerked around all day by symptoms . It’s so funny tho. GREAT video Jim.
I had a breakthrough in the last 24 hours. Last night I realised how much I downplay my feelings and emotions. It’s a trauma response that I’ve carried since childhood and repeating patterns that were ingrained into me by parents who ignored my needs and blamed me for their own shortcomings. Even though I healed a lot of those traumatic times and events I still carry those old thinking patterns. Downplaying my own emotions and symptoms is keeping me stuck. I’ve been doing mind body work for several years and made progress on my mental health but not on my physiological health. Your video this morning reinforced the realisation I had last night about me downplaying my feelings and symptoms and not listening to how I feel and addressing it. The emotional pain outweighs the physical pain a million times and that’s not an exaggeration. I feel optimistic that changing this pattern of not accepting my emotional trauma and physical symptoms is going to lead to improvements in my health.
Yes great revelation and breakthrough! Accept that trauma response as a pattern which will loosen it up and then consciously choose to start embracing and opening to your feelings. Good job
@@thepainpt thank you! I’ve used your guided somatic processing video many times for the physical symptoms but I’ve never managed to do the emotional one without being overwhelmed by emotions. I’m working my way up to being able to handle that and as you say awareness of the pattern each time it arises will help it release 💙
Can you be in fight or flight without raised heart rate mines normal or very good.but had missed beats only felt in bed for years
Again, an excellent video. It greatly helps to know what is really going on and how to heal from it when dealing with neuroplastic pain.
Thank you 🙏🏽 I have a flare this days is like what ? I have not feeling like this for a while 😮 so I will tell my brain calm down! I’m ok
I'm experiencing chronic dizziness and your videos are helping me so much! You explain these concepts really well so I can put it into action. Thank you :')
I had this 2 years I accepted it it went wish could do it with pain
@@Truerealism747 that's so uplifting to hear thank you. I've really begun accepting it this past month and it's slowly but surely letting go. I hope you find relief from pain soon.
@@mayhorseradish Read Claire weekes I've had do many sycosmatic symptoms which I didn't no more did any my doctor's until Claire weekes and TMS but pain constant fear goes up.tell it to do it more and more NB push it till the room spins as long heart etc all been checked.when it goes though something else will replace it unless you work on the subconscious anxiety causing it
@@Truerealism747 I've read her! She was incredibly helpful in healing my anxiety as well as The Anxiety Guy on youtube. I've done somatic tracking until I felt awful and it helped a lot. I've been challenging myself by living my life anyways, healing past traumas and growing as a person slowly but surely it's getting better. One day I believe it will lift. Thank you for your words, it can get so discouraging sometimes.
@@mayhorseradish it can drs tell so many lies to what pulled me in I've got hypomobile joints to and I believe it's linked with anxiety bigger fear response in brain have you got this.bee perfectionistic same as my mother she has severe ms and I no that was started with stress.are you at midlife as I started at 5 with proctalgia fungax OCD now 42 fybro symptoms with loads in-between willing to help anyone where I can as someone may help me someday
Great video. Snapped me out of my funk!
So good!
HI Jack I've just discovered you having been doing the TMS approach for a year - your work is incredible, thank you, and really resonates with me. Realise I have been passive! However I am in pain all day long so how often should i be telling my brain to back off - as a general guide. Many thanks
Yes you have to get tough with a strong habitual brain that is programmed for symptoms. Saying no strongly and holding that line is important in your mind. You are teaching your reptilian brain or dog brain. So you need to be firm, consistent and in control just like teaching a dog a new habit
But I thought the pain or anxiety symptoms were body's way to communicate, meaning your subconscious is trying to tell you something. So shouldn't we be kind and compassionate, and instead of "not listening" to the anxiety or pain, shouldn't we be actually listening the part of ourselves? We don't have to react, but wouldn't it be better to respond by saying something like "I hear you, you are scared. Let me look around and assure you, you are okay"? I was never comforted growing up, and being ridiculed or laughed at for being afraid and scared. That meant I was ignored, and was not heard. So when you say "Don't listen," I end up taking it as "ignore the anxiety or pain."
Yeah, what you said is exactly true and correct. It’s just that for some people. Anxiety scares them so much that they think it’s dangerous when in fact, it’s just a perceived danger.
Hi, Jim. A question: I have severe dry eyes that is causing very serious eye problems. Could dry eye be a form of TMS and be helped by your theories and Dr. Sarno's??
yes anxiety and stress have links to eye dryness
At 3:30 you suggest what you can do with a pain flare as opposed to just sitting and taking it: 1) No, pain you are not controlling me today, 2) Pain take it easy, we are fine, take a break, relax. Yet I keep reading about "acceptance" of the symptoms. Can you expain that a bit more: acceptance vs telling the brain no we are not doing this today? Thanks
Yes it’s a good question I get all the time. you want to be trying to influence the limbic brain to convince it you’re fine and for it to stop what it’s doing. stay in your prefrontal cortex to do that. This is the self talk messaging. Then you face and accept what’s there after your messaging. You’re accepting it at that point because you want to show the brain that you’re fine and that what it’s giving you is not dangerous. Acceptance from a place of strength I’ve talked about this on another video. Its definitely is something I can review many people seem to be confused by the two approaches
@@thepainpt Thanks, yes it might be worth a separate video. So seems it's more like a two-step process: 1) First, tell the brain you are in control, that everything is ok, that there is no reason for the pain, etc then 2) Accept what sensations there are, and try to just fully live and not fear it or focus on it. Thank you so much
I do it exactly the other way around:
Step 1: Let it be, don't react.
Step 2: (when it comes down a little): address the brain that it should back off
I agree that it's confusing, but I can only talk strongly to my brain when the pain has first been felt.
I got 2 months pain free very early on but it came back and I’ve been struggling for a few months now. I’m doing all the same things I did before but it doesn’t seem to be working anymore.
Double down on your messaging and that you are not going to be controlled by this. Also see if there are any emotions and unresolved stresses going on
Your a very good speaker
Do you have a video about anxiety that is also MindBody and how to heal from health anxiety?
Hi,please could you talk about things sometimes getting worse before better?I've been doing brain work for many months now,and whilst I've seen some positive changes,I have had some really hard times too where it feels like my brain/body is resisting those changes.
Yes that means you’re doing a good job part of the healing journey involves this resistance. Where your limbic brain is going to fight back in a sense because that’s the pattern that’s in there you need to keep going until you break that down. This is when you need to double down on the techniques.
@@thepainpt thanks so much. It's all very hard at the moment but I'll keep going.
Thanks for the helpful information in your videos! I have a question. How do you handle the Sarno approach when you have a combination of TMS symptoms (some related to knees but other areas as well) plus real structural issues? I had a knee replacement last year and now one leg is slightly longer than the other and my body is trying to manage as I walk. The slight misalignment causes real physical stress (and discomfort) in my hips? I appreciate any insights you can give.
Yes maybe get a heel lift or something like that to equalize that should really help. Also if the leg length difference isn’t that severe than the body usually can adapt to it in time most people don’t have exactly the same leg length and have no problems
Thanks for your quick response.
Would this tool be able to help someone who is going through benzodiazapine tapering that causes extreme chronic anxiety because the GABA receptors are down regulated resulting in multiple scary and debilitating symptoms…
I am a bit confused. Is this not at odds to the somatic tracking process where you sit with your pain and just notice it but don't actively react to it?
Yeah I answered this on another question I’ll do a video on it again because I’m getting a lot of questions. Somatic tracking is it form of nonreaction to what you feel. While self talk is a form of changing the neural pathways through responding
Trying to heal from Long Cove it. How do I be active when bouts of depression come on with heavy brain fog and tiredness.? I feel that all my energy is drained and my brain power goes down to 5%. I could barely think when this happened. So how do I become active about it but at the same time listen to my feelings?
Take Some time to feel your feelings stay calm do some somatic work and then see if you can get moving and challenge your symptoms with graded exposure. The key is to be consistent when you set up a program for yourself try their regulate your system in between
Dear Jim, I have a really important question I'd like to ask but a) it's a little bit personal and embarrassing and b) I'm not sure where to post it anyway (I mean I don't know which is the most 'relevant' of your videos). What would you suggest please? Hope this doesn't sound crazy! Thanks for all your great videos :-)
Send an email if U want jim@thepainpt.com
Hy gdmng sir! I have been practicing ur videos.. Seems helpfull but, still long to go.. I wanna know one more advice. Is this heal patterns also applicable to depression , anxiety and somatic symptoms? I mean can I heal depression anxiety and pain circuits by this method? Please comment on this sir 🙏
Yes absolutely all the things you mention are from altered brain signaling between the limbic brain and cortex and body. You can do it. I’ve got no over chronic pain myself and a lifelong time of anxiety
@@thepainpt TanQ for response.. Don't mind.. Did u overcome anxiety?
All this anthropomorphising -- "no, my dear Mr. Pain, I am not going to be triggered by your silly antics" etc. -- gets you nowhere in the face of a nasty flare-up, especially at the end of the day. You are simply at its mercy. The limbic system is by its very nature 'unconscious'; you can't shut it down by asking it to. The best you can do to send it a message is by BEHAVING in a manner that suggests you are unconcerned, unperturbed and indifferent. And that's easier said than done when the pain is going through the roof. Don't for a moment buy into this psychobabble BS.