I healed from over 3 decades of chronic back pain in 3 short months using a mind body approach. My life changed from despair to euphoria! I am a believer 🙏
Great vid ! Some years ago I had crazy electrical pains shooting through my body to my brain sending me to my knees. Also persistent arithmia, heart kept skipping beats . I thought I was dying, did every test imaginable with no conclusion. I went for a second opinion to a basic gp who looked me in the eyes and said , "your just stressed ! . I replied " Are you kidding me ? You mean to say stress can cause these crazy lightning bolt pains and interrupt my heart rhythm ???. "YES !!! " he replied . I left feeling confused and intrigued at the same time. The next day I realized that when I focused on work or any task and not on my body I had no symptoms. The second I would look for, worry about, even think about my symptoms , they would return. This was a turning point for me. One day I came to the conclusion , ide had enough , I literally spoke to my symptoms and said these words. " You know what ? I Dont give a shit anymore, so do what you want, bring it on , your not around when I'm active or focused elsewhere which means your a fake . That was over 10 yes ago, I haven't felt the same symptoms since.
Hi there, I read your comment and felt prompted to reply because last year I was plagued by those two very same chronic symptoms (heart palpitations and chronic nerve pain (electrical, stinging, burning, the whole range). I was able to successfully recover from both using a mind-body approach, so you can do the same. I am so glad to hear that you've gone nearly 2 weeks without them. You're on your way!
I think most of us often underestimate how intertwined the physical, emotional, cognitive, and spiritual aspects of ourselves are, and how much one can affect another.
I’ve discovered your videos recently. You absolutely encompass not only every aspect of mind/body issues, but all of the pioneers and present practitioners in TMS. You also add anxiety and somatic issues to the equation and you fit it all together so perfectly! Thank you for all your videos and priceless information. 🙏🏼🙏🏼❤️❤️
I have a testimony of this exact thing. I've been having pain for months and have been trying everything under the sun..I finally got an MRI which showed 2 neck herniated discs, with one extruding onto my spine, causing numbness, tingling, etc. Well one doctor told me I need shots and surgery if that doesn't help. I left his office crying, depressed, hopeless, etc. The other doctor, who had seen me months before, told me that she saw improvement from when she last saw me and to continue what I was doing bc she was confident the discs were going back into place. She told me the shots and surgery have risks involved and said she would avoid them if she was me. I left her office feeling empowered, encouraged, hopeful, and could feel my mind shifted. After seeing her I went 2 whole days with NO pain!!! It has come back...but no where near as bad as it was before. I'm learning how to train my brain to respond better when the pain triggers, and your videos are very helpful. Thank you so much!
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
I’d like an assessment !!! I certain I’ve emailed you but I don’t see a response sir ….I’m having a hard time lately , my pain is so terrible I was bedridden for 4 years , my pain literally wakes me up in the middle of the night in horrible pain ….. or if I’m active in any way I go into horrible hypersensitive pain for DAYS if not WEEKS. Either this just won’t work for me or I need extensive work with a psychotherapist, I had a 360 lumbar fusion 3 levels up , what is extremely odd is my neck / back of skull started killing me too ! What about people with like cfs leaks ? Is that considered tms or structural? This stuff gets tricky, 15 years of debilitating chronic pain 😞 like Sarno said , people in wheelchairs with no legs live a normal life in most cases , I’m incapacitated; it’s soooooo disturbing
😊 thank you for the video I was diagnosed on an MRI with two bulging discs and two herniated discs I believe this is TMS because in the past when I had these issues I didn't feel so much tightness and stiffness I was told not to move my spine for 9 months out of fear I did not Bend twist always kept in neutral spine out of fear it's my back became tighter I finally started moving and bending and twisting again it's getting better but I still have some tightness is it possible to have herniated discs and TMS because the brain is perceiving danger
Thanks Jim. Your videos are great but I do have an important question, please: You refer to inhibitory and excitory pathways but I would like to understand why these couldn't equally well apply to "normal" physical pain (as opposed to Mind Body pain). It would really help me to know the answer. I'm 95% sure I have TMS but, since my bladder pain all started with a bad infection (32 years ago) and I was told for years that I have an "embedded infection", you'll appreciate why there is still a small element of doubt in my mind. I really hope you'll see this comment and have time to respond. Many thanks
You may have a structural or other “physical problem” but that doesn’t mean it is causing your pain or discomfort or whatever sensations you are having. Other people who have the same structural problem as you, may not be having pain at all. This mind-body approach still applies and will still work for you. If you have chronic pain then this is the solution.
That term “embedded infection” sounds crazy. I doubt that doctor had any proof of that. The body clears all infections when the mind gets out of the way. The lingering symptoms are most likely a conditioned response. Keep using the work and show the brain it’s not necessary anymore.
Worrying and stress, that’s what does it. Catch yourself doing it and stop it. Relax and think of good things. Also, eat a healthy diet. That helps too
What about chronic dizziness? Like pppd or mdds? I have a chronic rocking/swaying sensation. Ct scan clear, bloodwork good, checked for vestibular issues and all good according to a vestibular physio...and was diagnosed with pppd.
But what if you have a brain injury from a car accident? How do you convince yourself that your symptoms aren’t dangerous? Or after a heart attack that your chest pain is nothing to worry about?
I’m having a really hard time thinking my Morton neuroma is my symptom imperative due to the physical feelings and having walked miles in heels. Do you have success stories on this?
Thankyou for asking this question and also Jim for providing the info! I have really bad anxiety and panic attack and sumtime it’s still hard to convince a lot of my symptom is from it…I’m currently suffering so much now cuz I have more emotional things going on so my anxiety been off the chart and so is my body pain and back pain… it’s been very difficult! But grateful to hear this and learn more. 🙏
I was diagnosed with physiological tremor . She didn’t give me anything to do for this other than relax. Have u ever seen this? I have daily anxiety and definitely dealt w health anxiety and TMS .
I had this too, along with benign fasciculation syndrome, it went away as I convinced my brain there was nothing physically wrong, took about 1 year, I’m now working through other symptoms.
Does this apply to post stroke symptoms such as my mom having wooziness and pain in face since her stroke? What about a left field cut in vision - that probably isn’t tms. Thanks ❤️🙏
The cure for the pain is in the pain, as difficult as it is sit with it for as long as you can, and sometimes other parts of your psyche may be trying to “protect” you from those feelings through resistance… tell those parts they’re safe and it’s ok to feel these feelings, that way you can tap into what your body is trying to tell u
So pain is the lower back that turns into numbness and tingling in the feet when standing to long is still caused by the brain and not by a compressed nerve as the physician told me?
And how to explain the many succesful surgeries and PT rehab for this condition? If surgeries, rehab dont work, it's suddenly TMS? i had neck and lower back disc bulges 2018. Did pT and continued home exercises i learned from pt sessions. I became depressed and feared my conditions. Lost too much weight and was so skinny and weak. I finally decided to stop being depressed and started to walk, push ups, then biking, until finally was able to play some basketball. I was not pain free but i was living a normal life. Now, pain is back. Had mri. Doc said no need for surgery. But iam having this fear again because im now in my 50's. Not really sure if this is really tms because as i said, both PT and this mind body approach helped me cope with my condition. Not sure now if i need to go back to PT or this is just TMS
It makes no difference. In both scenarios you at some point believed your pain was a real injury. Once you can let go of that and accept that your injury has long healed and there’s nothing wrong with you, that’s all you should be focusing on
I’ve been doing this work over a year. Maybe 18 months. I’ve had zero improvement. If anything I’m worse. I’ve read books, subscribe to Curable, watch videos, breathing techniques, meditation etc etc. I feel suicidal today, at this moment that is the only solution to end my misery.
Keep going. I have a success story coming where someone dealt with 13 years of pain and is now pain free. Though took 3 years to get out. Don’t give up keep moving forward using the tools here. Also reach out for support or help when you need it especially during tough times like now. Hang in there you get there in time
I dont know if you believe in spirituality, but i experience spontaneous movements while meditating, like im not consciously trying to do anything at all which made me believe that we really do have a soul and are eternal. Your pain is your souls way of communicating with you that you need to change something, you need to sit quietly and talk to your pain like its a person or an entity in someway separate fron you and ask it what it needs
@@g.siporin4000 Honestly it's pretty hard to sue a doctor unless there's serious malpractice but my point is most doctors are pretty "to the point" or at least I certainly have never had a doctor tell me I'm fine. Kinda wish I had! lol
@@DarlaAnne the doctor that botched my surgery would constantly tell me I’m fine when I was in severe nerve pain. She tried to dismiss me and told me I needed to go on antidepressants. WTH? Couldn’t sue, can’t get on disability because doctors on the panel never heard of Pudendal neuralgia
@@g.siporin4000 I understand your viewpoint. I also have not heard of Pudendal neuralgia but I do have occipital neuralgia. Nerve pain is terrible to deal with. I hope you find healing.
I healed from over 3 decades of chronic back pain in 3 short months using a mind body approach. My life changed from despair to euphoria! I am a believer 🙏
I’m 18 months in and no improvement. All hope is fading fast.
@@cassettepatare you having anxiety or fears over the pain? Or are you indifferent to it?
@@momof2girls84 yes I’m fearful of it.. not as bad as I used to be though. I’ve been doing mind body work for 2-3 years with no improvement
That's the hardest part... Keeping hope... Consistantly... You will get there... It's possible my friend.
You did it👍
Great vid !
Some years ago I had crazy electrical pains shooting through my body to my brain sending me to my knees. Also persistent arithmia, heart kept skipping beats . I thought I was dying, did every test imaginable with no conclusion. I went for a second opinion to a basic gp who looked me in the eyes and said , "your just stressed ! . I replied " Are you kidding me ? You mean to say stress can cause these crazy lightning bolt pains and interrupt my heart rhythm ???. "YES !!! " he replied . I left feeling confused and intrigued at the same time. The next day I realized that when I focused on work or any task and not on my body I had no symptoms. The second I would look for, worry about, even think about my symptoms , they would return. This was a turning point for me. One day I came to the conclusion , ide had enough , I literally spoke to my symptoms and said these words. " You know what ? I Dont give a shit anymore, so do what you want, bring it on , your not around when I'm active or focused elsewhere which means your a fake . That was over 10 yes ago, I haven't felt the same symptoms since.
Hi there, I read your comment and felt prompted to reply because last year I was plagued by those two very same chronic symptoms (heart palpitations and chronic nerve pain (electrical, stinging, burning, the whole range). I was able to successfully recover from both using a mind-body approach, so you can do the same. I am so glad to hear that you've gone nearly 2 weeks without them. You're on your way!
The DOUBT is stopping the healing. SO accurate. SO timely. Thank you.
I think most of us often underestimate how intertwined the physical, emotional, cognitive, and spiritual aspects of ourselves are, and how much one can affect another.
Yes, they are one.
I’ve discovered your videos recently. You absolutely encompass not only every aspect of mind/body issues, but all of the pioneers and present practitioners in TMS. You also add anxiety and somatic issues to the equation and you fit it all together so perfectly! Thank you for all your videos and priceless information. 🙏🏼🙏🏼❤️❤️
I have a testimony of this exact thing. I've been having pain for months and have been trying everything under the sun..I finally got an MRI which showed 2 neck herniated discs, with one extruding onto my spine, causing numbness, tingling, etc. Well one doctor told me I need shots and surgery if that doesn't help. I left his office crying, depressed, hopeless, etc. The other doctor, who had seen me months before, told me that she saw improvement from when she last saw me and to continue what I was doing bc she was confident the discs were going back into place. She told me the shots and surgery have risks involved and said she would avoid them if she was me. I left her office feeling empowered, encouraged, hopeful, and could feel my mind shifted. After seeing her I went 2 whole days with NO pain!!! It has come back...but no where near as bad as it was before. I'm learning how to train my brain to respond better when the pain triggers, and your videos are very helpful. Thank you so much!
I'm fine and benign. Now I just need to truly believe! Come on brain!
Me too!!!
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
Same... 😊
Always get so much out of your content - thanks Jim 🙏
Be friends with our brain..❤️
Brilliant video thanks 🙏
Pls guide on how to cure from frequent urination where no medicine works and doctors think its just anxiety
I'm so grateful for your videos. Thank you
Do you have any videos that we can watch that you have to practice techniques I Cant find any
Your videos are exactly what I was looking for. Thank you
Amazing video. On my repeat list!
Great video, explained very well. This is gold.
I just sit around and think about this
Thank you so much. Really helpful.
Thank you, Jim ... Much Aloha.
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I’d like an assessment !!! I certain I’ve emailed you but I don’t see a response sir ….I’m having a hard time lately , my pain is so terrible I was bedridden for 4 years , my pain literally wakes me up in the middle of the night in horrible pain ….. or if I’m active in any way I go into horrible hypersensitive pain for DAYS if not WEEKS. Either this just won’t work for me or I need extensive work with a psychotherapist, I had a 360 lumbar fusion 3 levels up , what is extremely odd is my neck / back of skull started killing me too ! What about people with like cfs leaks ? Is that considered tms or structural? This stuff gets tricky, 15 years of debilitating chronic pain 😞 like Sarno said , people in wheelchairs with no legs live a normal life in most cases , I’m incapacitated; it’s soooooo disturbing
😊 thank you for the video I was diagnosed on an MRI with two bulging discs and two herniated discs I believe this is TMS because in the past when I had these issues I didn't feel so much tightness and stiffness I was told not to move my spine for 9 months out of fear I did not Bend twist always kept in neutral spine out of fear it's my back became tighter I finally started moving and bending and twisting again it's getting better but I still have some tightness is it possible to have herniated discs and TMS because the brain is perceiving danger
Great stuff. So cristal clear. Thank you Jim!
Bless you brother!
Thanks Jim. Your videos are great but I do have an important question, please:
You refer to inhibitory and excitory pathways but I would like to understand why these couldn't equally well apply to "normal" physical pain (as opposed to Mind Body pain).
It would really help me to know the answer. I'm 95% sure I have TMS but, since my bladder pain all started with a bad infection (32 years ago) and I was told for years that I have an "embedded infection", you'll appreciate why there is still a small element of doubt in my mind.
I really hope you'll see this comment and have time to respond.
Many thanks
You may have a structural or other “physical problem” but that doesn’t mean it is causing your pain or discomfort or whatever sensations you are having. Other people who have the same structural problem as you, may not be having pain at all. This mind-body approach still applies and will still work for you. If you have chronic pain then this is the solution.
That term “embedded infection” sounds crazy. I doubt that doctor had any proof of that. The body clears all infections when the mind gets out of the way. The lingering symptoms are most likely a conditioned response. Keep using the work and show the brain it’s not necessary anymore.
Good content
Great video!
Still trying to change my brain after knowing all of this for 12’years
Hello, this video mentioned group coaching. Do you still offer it. 🙏🏽
Thank you for this
Id like to reach out to you
Whats the best way to do that?
I got bad vertigo and tension in my neck area
Can a full/clogged ear be BS?
Even an injury just like in my case can become chronic and turn into TMS
How about ear pressure and pain?
I’ve had every symptom you can think of. The answer is yes.
including chronic dizziness. Like being on a boat...??
Yes including chronic dizziness. I had it for about 5 months and recovered from it using Jim's approach@@janiceince1965
Yes off balance and ear pressure popping ears .. ect
Worrying and stress, that’s what does it. Catch yourself doing it and stop it. Relax and think of good things. Also, eat a healthy diet. That helps too
What about chronic dizziness? Like pppd or mdds? I have a chronic rocking/swaying sensation. Ct scan clear, bloodwork good, checked for vestibular issues and all good according to a vestibular physio...and was diagnosed with pppd.
Same. I feel for you.
I have swollen knuckles from repetitive strain is that neuroplastic pain?
But what if you have a brain injury from a car accident? How do you convince yourself that your symptoms aren’t dangerous? Or after a heart attack that your chest pain is nothing to worry about?
Hey great video!
I wanted to ask that can I apply all your chronic pain principles to other chronic conditions like neural circuit dizziness?
Yes you can and should
I’m having a really hard time thinking my Morton neuroma is my symptom imperative due to the physical feelings and having walked miles in heels. Do you have success stories on this?
Can chronic health anxiety be cured or mitigated with TMS/MindBody work?
Yes, of course anxiety is one of the biggest issues we treat
@@thepainpt Do you have any TH-cam videos where you take us through a practice of letting go of anxiety or some other practice?? Thank you’
@@robinelliott5561 yes any of the somatic ones can be used for anxiety since anxiety is a physical symptom producing condition
Thankyou for asking this question and also Jim for providing the info! I have really bad anxiety and panic attack and sumtime it’s still hard to convince a lot of my symptom is from it…I’m currently suffering so much now cuz I have more emotional things going on so my anxiety been off the chart and so is my body pain and back pain… it’s been very difficult! But grateful to hear this and learn more. 🙏
I was diagnosed with physiological tremor . She didn’t give me anything to do for this other than relax. Have u ever seen this? I have daily anxiety and definitely dealt w health anxiety and TMS .
I had this too, along with benign fasciculation syndrome, it went away as I convinced my brain there was nothing physically wrong, took about 1 year, I’m now working through other symptoms.
Does this apply to post stroke symptoms such as my mom having wooziness and pain in face since her stroke? What about a left field cut in vision - that probably isn’t tms. Thanks ❤️🙏
When you start implementing techniques why does the body fight back harder? Does the stress response become more active or can it!
The cure for the pain is in the pain, as difficult as it is sit with it for as long as you can, and sometimes other parts of your psyche may be trying to “protect” you from those feelings through resistance… tell those parts they’re safe and it’s ok to feel these feelings, that way you can tap into what your body is trying to tell u
So pain is the lower back that turns into numbness and tingling in the feet when standing to long is still caused by the brain and not by a compressed nerve as the physician told me?
And how to explain the many succesful surgeries and PT rehab for this condition?
If surgeries, rehab dont work, it's suddenly TMS?
i had neck and lower back disc bulges 2018.
Did pT and continued home exercises i learned from pt sessions.
I became depressed and feared my conditions.
Lost too much weight and was so skinny and weak.
I finally decided to stop being depressed and started to walk, push ups, then biking, until finally was able to play some basketball.
I was not pain free but i was living a normal life.
Now, pain is back.
Had mri.
Doc said no need for surgery.
But iam having this fear again because im now in my 50's.
Not really sure if this is really tms because as i said, both PT and this mind body approach helped me cope with my condition.
Not sure now if i need to go back to PT or this is just TMS
Is this harder to overcome if you had an injury previously which healed so that is why they are remembered ? Rather than caused randomly by stress
It makes no difference. In both scenarios you at some point believed your pain was a real injury. Once you can let go of that and accept that your injury has long healed and there’s nothing wrong with you, that’s all you should be focusing on
the more you do, the more the symptoms ramp up tho
I’d question that question doing some Byron Katie work.
I’ve been doing this work over a year. Maybe 18 months. I’ve had zero improvement. If anything I’m worse. I’ve read books, subscribe to Curable, watch videos, breathing techniques, meditation etc etc. I feel suicidal today, at this moment that is the only solution to end my misery.
Keep going. I have a success story coming where someone dealt with 13 years of pain and is now pain free. Though took 3 years to get out. Don’t give up keep moving forward using the tools here. Also reach out for support or help when you need it especially during tough times like now. Hang in there you get there in time
I dont know if you believe in spirituality, but i experience spontaneous movements while meditating, like im not consciously trying to do anything at all which made me believe that we really do have a soul and are eternal. Your pain is your souls way of communicating with you that you need to change something, you need to sit quietly and talk to your pain like its a person or an entity in someway separate fron you and ask it what it needs
Where are your videos to practice mindfulness for pain stomach issues and back pain and abdomen tightness thank you
You describe the situation and yet don’t provide much to implement
Maybe you could buy a brain retraining program. The gupta or DNRS
All doctors tell you that you’ll be fine so you don’t sue them.
Actually they don't say that because if you end up not fine you could sue them. Most doctors are pretty to the point.
@@DarlaAnne where?
@@g.siporin4000 Honestly it's pretty hard to sue a doctor unless there's serious malpractice but my point is most doctors are pretty "to the point" or at least I certainly have never had a doctor tell me I'm fine. Kinda wish I had! lol
@@DarlaAnne the doctor that botched my surgery would constantly tell me I’m fine when I was in severe nerve pain. She tried to dismiss me and told me I needed to go on antidepressants. WTH? Couldn’t sue, can’t get on disability because doctors on the panel never heard of Pudendal neuralgia
@@g.siporin4000 I understand your viewpoint. I also have not heard of Pudendal neuralgia but I do have occipital neuralgia. Nerve pain is terrible to deal with. I hope you find healing.