Part 2: The Practice- Relaxing Your Nervous System To Heal
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- Reach out if you need support on your journey out of chronic health symptoms or anxiety. You can find me at www.thepainpt.com
This is the practice of how to regulate or relax your nervous system to heal. Putting your nervous system in the parasympathetic state is putting yourself in the healing state so that it can process whatever ails you.
I return to this again and again.
Something in me is so resistant to beginning this relaxing process. But once I start, it's consistently a positive experience. Thanks for your motivation and support, Jim!
Strange how that is, isnt it? I wish continued healing 🙏🏼
Many people are addicted to being in fight or flight- its more of a ramped up state than a deep relaxed calmed state
Oh I am non stop in a fight/flight zone I realise this now very hard to change I keep trying calming myself down with your help
It’s the fear of emotions
I use this video practically every day as a meditation. It helps me soo much to calm and settle my system. Big thank you for your work Jim, it’s been life saving.
A big thank you Jim I could almost feel my pain subsiding going to do this regularly
Another great TMS video. Thanks for your continued help in such a catch-22 battle, Jim!
I appreciate that the body needs to shift from sympathetic nervous system, but the PTSD state demands vigilance, so when I try to relax my body it says no I need to stay alert and therefore tense.
So I hope you can do a guided relaxation that includes creating a sense of safety in order for the body to be willing to let go.
Yes ur right that’s what it does. Talk to your limbic brain you need to convince it you are safe. Use evidence and logic the prefrontal cortex needs to regulate and keep in check this amygdala that can run wild (amygdala hijack). Let whatever the amygdala creates flow and go. Let the tension unwind gradually. You need to face the ptsd symptoms from a place that confronts them with exposure and mental messaging as well as working with the emotions. Reach out if you need more help
I'm glad I found this video and will return again and again
This is a good one! Even the vacation backdrop adds to the relaxation,
Thanks much!
Hi just started this now after suffering months on chronic pelvic pain. I have felt a difference in the pain levels already. Will continue this.
Incredibly helpful thank you!
Thank you, sometimes we just need to be reminded to chill. Awesome videos Jim!
I've found this video incredibly helpful and try to do it daily. Thank you.
Slept well did this again this morning never felt so relaxed I really liked what you said about the symptoms that they will take care of themselves in due time I always thought that if I am in a relaxed state the sym would lesten or go away now I know this is not going to happen soo got to be patient I can do this will do this video every day thank you Jim love you Lenneke from the Netherlands 😘😘😘
This was extremely helpful, thanks!
Didn't know I could be in such a relaxed state not drifting of amazing soo good
So good, thank you 😁
Very helpful thank you 🙏
Love the metaphor of the balloon. 🙏🏼🙏🏼💯
Fabulous ! I will come back to this often. Thanks!
Thank you Jim so very much for your help, I’ve been in acute pain for 18 years and I finally understand and am putting it into practice
thank you❤
This video helped give me a aha moment so Thankyou very much ❤
This is great Jim
I am stuck in fight / flight and struggling to get into the parasympathetic
Oh wow, thanks so much, I'm like jello now 🙃☺I needed this. I'll be listening to this often. So grateful, Jim.
Thank you.
Mahalo nui! loa from Big Island, Hawaii. 🌴
Great video. Interesting exercise. My legs are permanently stiff so it’s hard to relax them as you say at the beginning. Gradually my mind and body start to let go and a wave of anxiety comes up. I flush red. I just let it happen, observe it but it is weird. Then I settle gain and this evening I started to shake! Again I just observed. Finished more relaxed but I think still in a sympathetic rather than parasympathetic mode. Will continue to practice.
Yes Layers of tension and stress coming up and peeling off keep going!
I get this type of reaction it seems every couple hours throughout the day...especially when trying to relax my system. It starts with an uncomfortable sense of impending doom followed by sweating/hot flash. At times burning skin follows this. It’s such an uncomfortable response that it adds to my resistance to relaxing but I push through it hoping in time it’ll settle more and these reactions won’t happy as my limbic system trusts I really am safe. These episodes are exhausting though and I’m trying to stay as calm as I can through them! I also get them right upon waking in the morning..
Thank you so much for this video. Going through hell with health… I was wondering if you might have any videos specifically for sleep?
CRPS ... OMG !!!
Thank You
Good content.
amazing
I think I would be on the couch ALL day in meditation if what you say is the answer. I already do meditating and other things but then you have Dan Bulgio saying, get off the couch and live your life as if you have no pain/damage. I'm confused. I guess do them both as I have been. I do a lot of parasympathetic inducing things and o try to live my life. Thanks for all your efforts on our behalf.
The whole point of this IS getting off the couch. It's not what you do but how you do it. Meaning carrying an inner state of peace and relaxation while you do anything you want in the world is the key. I always tell people you can being as fast you want in life but still be relaxed on the inside. This is the practice- relax into everything you do and feel! Especially since we know with confidence from the research people with chronic conditions aren't keeping their rest digest and relax nervous system turned on
@@thepainpt I have spinal cord damage and I don't walk well. I only walk short distances. When I walk I have neuropathic pain in my feet. I couldn't walk for 4 years now I can walk for like 15 minutes. I can not stand for long. So I can not live my normal old life and I'm scared of walking. How can I tell my brain I'm ok? I have been scared to walk for years.
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Very nice on the sofa before bedtime,! I'll try it tomorrow while knocking a wall down with a sledge hammer, then shoveling the bricks all day . 😃 On a serious note , is this really possible to work on a site in parasympathetic mode without being sacked ?
I always tell people it’s not what you do but how you do it!
What are your chronic symptoms. And how can you do what you do with pain? 😑
@@MsAnchovey will power to survive. Practicing indifference , so not supposed to talk about symptoms. Self talk that im ok. Mini breaks to calm down.
@@cdracos1 u got this. The not talking part cann be soo tough sometimes and the indifference during a flare up.
@@DHRUVISM2016 breath, meditation, calming down, safety messages.
Hi Jim, another great video. What's going on with the background! 😁😁😁
Funny you should ask. We’ve been having a lot of work done on our house so I put the backdrop on because guys are moving furniture and stuff all over the place. My wife commented that you’re wearing a jacket even though it looks like you’re at the beach :) it’s actually a real photo we took when we were down in Mexico last year pre-pandemic
I still need and use this video daily.
Is that oké?
I mean... more like... I can't really get there without lying down and listening...
Yes no problem!!!
I can relax my body and feel the feelings but my mind is distracted all the time . I dont know how to put it into ease . Initially when I started these practices it was so good ,a few days I felt so good but now most of the time I am into my mind tracking past or future .Any help
Hi. Had an abreaction during hypnosis. Felt terror when feeling an overwhelming feeling of illness in me. Woke myself up after trauma.
So I've been using self hypnosis to go into a deeper state to confront this overwhelming fear of the Ill feeling and I'm getting better but once I've felt it my nervous system is on red alert for hours days after the self hypnosis
How do I heal this feeling?
Thank you very much, I’m Dutch and English is not my native language. With the echo and no microphone it’s hard to understand. I love to luring from you 🌈🙏
Is this basically akin to meditation? That's kind of how it felt. But yes, I did feel more relaxed in body and mind doing this.
Call it what you want- it is shifting autonomic nervous system to the parasympathetic- then trying to do that as much as you can throughout the day- thats the key!
Hi Jim, I am trying to heal chronic bladder condition. Finally I managed to relax my body and felt great improvement of my symptoms for several days, but suddenly I start to feel strange tingling, trembling and pulsations in my feet, arms and face. These sensations are continuing already 2 weeks. Could it be a kind of reaction of the nervous system as a result of the healing process or it is a new illness? I am starting to panic again.
Yes sounds like a reaction from the limbic brain. Just relax more deeply this will pass. The limbic brain does not trust that you are ok yet and is reacting back thinking there is still danger or a threat. By relaxing and calming you are teaching it everything is actually ok
Can I workout with this practice. I'm a trainer and love to workout but this t practice takes the energy away.
Hey Ann you can do it after your work out if you want. Because it’s geared more towards the parasympathetic you might feel a little more sleepy etc. while workouts are really stimulating IThe sympathetic nervous system
Any thoughts on Wim Hof breathing and this?
Can be good for working with the nervous system and clearing stress
Can you be calm but still your symptoms are going through the roof it is unbearable I got mouth pain chest pain and neck pain not normal today
Might be repressing or suppressing. Have it to let it flow to go have to let the stuff pass before it settles
@@thepainpt don't understand your answer sorry
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