Understanding Why It's the Brain not the Body
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ก.ย. 2024
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I hope this helps you to understand it's the brain not the body when it comes to a lot of chronic somatic symptoms. The goal is to teach your brain you are safe and not in any danger. You decide if there is danger or threat (based on your evidence) instead of letting your limbic brain make that decision for you. (image credit to Apkarian and Baliki)
This presentation should be required for all medical practitioners!! Such a great explanation of the mind body connection and how it all works!! Thank you!! Great job 🎉🎉🎉
This goes far back. Hippocrates taught the brain is the seat of thought, sensation, emotion and cognition. Also J. Krishnamurti: “As long as you think about pain, you intensify the memory of it. Therefore, thinking about pain increases the fear of it.”
Certainly does. It used to be different but medicine nowadays is only looking at the body. Hippocrates said himself:
It is far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
Wow! Excellent! Thank you. I watched one of your videos yesterday and today I am a completely different person... I am not on high alert, not adhd, nor distracted. I am calm centered ..... not been like this for ages!
Amazing explanation of everything going on in the brain/body connection.
Great explanation of the mind! Thank you!
Just learned about TMS 2 weeks ago, after 2 decades of chronic body/gut pain. Gosh, this video is super helpful as I embark on my journey to quiet-*decide to* calm!🧠:)-my nervous system. Childhood trauma mixed in there, this just makes so much sense. Thx for helping me to understand it better, Jim!
This is a great reminder and resource. Thank you Jim
Its not the body but the difficult part for me is to consistently not react to the symptoms. Allow them, move through them. And not to judge when i have a setback( inner critic)
Hi Jim, thanks so much🤗
Hi Jim, do you have any other advice for distressing loud tinnitus, would be most grateful if you could do a short video on this symptom. i have been dealing with chronic pain for 30 years, using the TMS method, but the tinnitus, which i have had for three years is the most challenging yet. Much appreciation.
Can si joint pain cause this omg it burns I can’t walk .
Hi Jim, do you see people with POTs and Dysautonomia heal through this same approach?
I healed from POTS entirely, though mostly by getting OFF the medications that were causing the extreme low blood pressure. 6 months after I tapered off benzos and elavil, plus 3 other medications, my bp was normal. In benzo withdrawal, however, I had the racing heartbeat, and self-hypnosis helped that hugely, as it did with spiking HIGH blood pressure. But when life was calm and peaceful, my bp was perfectly normal. I went from crawling - my bp was so dangerously low - to dancing. Now I'm learning somatic work, I hope to end other chronic symptoms too. This is a good place to help with many kinds of non-structural chronic pain and illnesses! Somatic tracking is wonderful - I do it daily now. And the success stories help when you're having a rough day or a setback! Jim is a great teacher.
Hello can you explain what you did please? Thank you 😊what is self hypnosis?
@@Dandelionsandbutterflies The most important thing I did was taper off benzodiazepines - that's sleeping pills and anti-anxiety medication. Self-hypnosis is a way of calming yourself then giving your subconscious messages of healing. Here is an example: th-cam.com/video/D9hjipLstgQ/w-d-xo.html
But that just helps with the symptoms. I believe that doing somatic tracking, brain rewiring, and nervous system calming can help you heal it entirely. But various forms of meditation and breathwork can help.
Happy Healing!
I'm sure he would. It's part of many symptoms resulting from nervous system dysregulation, just like CFS . This approach works for any uncomfortable symptoms under this umbrella. Its not just for pain😊
I had weird vision disturbances for a few weeks then it has gone away now its dizzyness its always something lately
O how I wished for this information since the v
Very very beginning of my journey.
Thank you ❤
Wonderful ❤ thank you for taking the time to help all of us! (Peggy)
I am literally in love with your videos! Thanks for sharing such valuable knowledge. My sister is suffering from chronic pain and I think that it is neuroplastic because some criteria are checked such as inconsistency, spread and movement, multiple symptoms, pain always increases after an inadequate night sleep which happens often because she suffers also from chronic insomnia… However, regarding the « lacking physical diagnosis » criteria, some practitioners mentioned that she might suffer from chronic Lyme disease and her blood tests results show immune system dysregulation suggesting a potential bacterial infection. We have been binging on your videos because we finally see some hope and maybe an explanation to what’s happening.
However we are wondering if it is possible to have neuro plastic pain/symptoms (fatigue, insomnia…) and at the same time some structural problems such as a disturbed immune system caused by a potential bacterial infection?
We are struggling to know if the pain is due to the brain or to a structural damage !?
Please help us understand and answer this question.
Thanks a lot for your sincere help 🙏
It’s possible a bacterial infection can cause symptoms but if it’s a chronic one, it’s not likely as typically the body heals. It takes care of it. the brain and nervous system control the immune system so if the brain is stressed, it can have an effect on your system cause these sensations, I see it all the time with long Covid and other chronic infections