My promise is to do as much as I can to demystify and take away the fear of chronic pain and other chronic symptoms. Decades ago, Dr. Sarno figured out that unresolved emotions cause physical pain. Countless numbers of people have ended their pain through this simple knowledge and adopting some specific practices to "feel your emotions" and convince yourself you are not broken.
The best way to get started is to go through the resources on my Getting Started page: www.PainFreeYou.com/start
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If i get negative thoughts i always ask myself : "is this helpful" answer is always no so then the negative thoughts goes away. Ty Dan for another great video sending you much love and all of you here on RU-vid ❤🥰🤗💪🦸♀️ watching the European football the Netherlands is playing against Poland at 3 pm ⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️
I had a similar situation Dan, I was advised that releasing old trauma and emotions would help eliminate my symptoms (I have a diagnosis of ME/CFS) so worked with a somatic trauma therapist and had some EMDR therapy. I had a really strong reaction to it and it brought back a lot of stuff I’d repressed like it was happening in the present. It was frightening and incredibly painful mentally. A year on from the therapy I experience flashbacks, being triggered into fight and flight all the time and I have dreams of the trauma which I didn’t have previously. I can try and ground myself in the present etc and remind myself it’s over but sometimes it’s happening subconsciously and I have no control over it. I honestly wish I’d never done the therapy as it made me so much worse. I’ve been journaling daily but that doesn’t seem to improve things either. I’m not sure how to resolve this as I’m reluctant to have further therapy.
Didn't even get out the door before fight and flight hihacked me. Drained. I did get out, drove to church, on route serious sensations in left arm, then stuck in traffic, I was a nervous wreck before I'd arrived . I managed to stay and then visited the park. Left home in a storm, now the suns out. Hot and cold, mixed bag like my thoughts
Negative thoughts only have power if we react to them...... ❤ I have found the same applies with pains / sensations / symptoms in the body... The more focus/fear we feed into them - the more they persist and grow.... ❤ Self-love Self-care Self-compassion Self-respect Self-worth Self-esteem And cultivating a true sense of self is very healing.... ❤❤❤
Birds & water instantly bring on a sense of peace & your words go straight in. The way I see it is negative thoughts only persist because in the past when we were lost, there was fear & misinformation taken on board as truth...add in the belief "they are real"...and this becomes a habit & something we identify with..."I am those thoughts"...this is NOT true. Meditation has helped me to have some "distance" from these thoughts & "see" them for what they are...just thoughts. It's a process!!Loving blessings to all❤
Dan is totally right when he says that the brain will act on your thought instantly. There's so much evidence now that the messages sent via neuropeptides in the brain to cells throughout the body happens in milliseconds. It's observable on MRI scan. So if the messages you send are negative, those are going to every cell in the body. It's so not easy to be 'positive' when you're in pain and scared and anxious. But it is possible to be aware of what you allow yourself to think. If you catch yourself in a negative spiral, take some deep breaths, breathe into your belly. Start over.
@@1STBUCKLEY It's a physiological fact. Mind/thought to brain, brain activates chemicals, chemicals to cells at a quantum speed, literally. Your thoughts aren't the result of your symptoms, your symptoms are the result of your thoughts. As Dan says the projector and the screen.
My negative thoughts often take the form of other people having conversations about me in the future. I.e. 'She never got better.' I decided to time how long it took for my brain to produce a negative thought - 4 minutes and 51 seconds. I heard a weird buzzing noise and immediately thought it was coming from my head, tinnitus style. It turned out to be iron I'd just plugged in!
I’m having such an awful time with pppd symptoms. I’m trying so hard Fan to get up go to work continue to live but I’m just so scared. Went to the supermarket yesterday and was terrified the whole time I was in there. Thanks for this video you are awesome x
This is a video I will rewatch- such an inspirational positive approach to healing, and from one so young! Thank you both for all the wonderful advice along this journey. Ever grateful.
Thanks, Dan, for today's talk. I have so much past trauma that it could take me the rest of my life to work through. So good to think that I can just move on knowing that I'm safe and well. ❤
I gave you a month - just as an experiment - and I won't be running a marathon any time soon but - it's a tentative plus in the positive column - so I'll just have to give you another month just because I like feeling this tiny bit better. Thankyou for your time and dedication to turning up for us every single day.
I have tonsillitis and a bad cough rn, and the doctor tried to give me something for the cough, but the side effect was possible A-fib! No thanks.. Time to tell myself, I’m safe and that my body knows what to do to heal itself (along with the antibiotics). Cough is a little better already.. thanks for these wonderful tools Dan!
Chronic fatigue still dealing wiith it, and now the constant thirst and need to urinate all the time is back. I thought that went away for good but no. Also, for the first time in my life I am sensitive to the pollen weed count in the air so I am conjested with runny nose and eyes, and sneeze a lot. I use to have a normal sneeze but since TMS, when I sneeze, it is soo loud, all the car alarms go off in the neighborhood and at least two people have been blown away into another state.
One things that really helped me understand the importance of this was hearing someone bedbound say they feel like they’re fighting a war everyday. And I understood but it also made me realize there’s no way that view is helpful and one persons bedbound war is another persons vacation and it’s up to me to choose how I view things
"The medical industry has failed people with chronic pain." This! 95% of the doctors are absolutely incapable of treating chronic pain and the suffering of the patients that are dealing with it - and the society is no better. If you have a broken leg or a heart attack, you get sympathy. If you're dealing with chronic pain or mental health problems, you don't.
The medical community isn't even just scratching their heads. They're being trained to label anyone who persists with asking for medical answers beyond the surface responses, as if they are troublemakers or malingerers.
The good news is that more PT'S in the US are being trained and it is covered by insurance. The diagnosis used is central sensitization. I’m working with one and she is a godsend!
The PTs I went to while very nice, weren’t treating the actual problem and I don’t recall any of them mentioning the brain to me or encouraging me to do anything that actually helped
Dan , i love your work making people believe that there is hope. This is specific for those with herniated dics or stenosis. I guess the fear is about if we are really okay with not doing the PT exercises becase the medical system has failed as you believe. What are we gonna do then. Just think that this ia a mind thing and wait for the discs to heal on it's own regardless when. Months or yrs. If we answer the assesments, it will show tms. Now the fear is am i doing the right thing.because if im wrong, the consequence can be life changing. For those with herniated discs or any spine issue prescribed with exercises, i am sure they are also thinking, what if this not tms, and im not doing the exercises? Again, this reply is for herniated discs or spine symptoms. It becomes a cycle especially when you want to get better, not in 13 yrs, but the earliest possible until your doc recommends surgery. Again, i love your work but this is for disc patients only....
I understand the disclaimer about how medical intervention is sometimes necessary, including in cases of tumors and cancer, but there have been quite a few cases of people who have healed life-threatening diseases without any Western-based medical treatment. In most of these cases, the fully-recovered person engaged in modalities that resolved long-standing trauma and other emotional issues, enabling them to love and accept themselves in ways they never had before. There are also cases of people with life-threatening illnesses who have experienced spontaneous healing through near-death experiences, prayer, energy, work, and various spiritual/metaphysical phenomena. Regardless of whether or not one seeks medical treatment for a serious condition, the need for hope, stress reduction, humor, and moral support cannot be overstated.
@@pattischmitz2680 I'm agreeing with you that MS is a frightening problem, and one that needs monitoring by your regular neurologists, as well as anything you may be doing for yourself in terms of self help.
Not-so-fun fact. Medical schools are run by pharmaceutical companies. They get to dictate the curriculum because they're the ones who financially support the medical schools. Doctors are only trained to do two things: Medicate or operate. They're not trained to heal people or keep them healthy. Healthy people don't make big pharma any money but neither do dead people. So they train doctors to keep people chronically sick but alive so they become lifetime customers. That's why doctors know nothing about nutrition for example. Food can't be patented so big pharma can't make any money training doctors to first ask you what you're eating and drinking to see if an adjustment in diet is all that's necessary to resolve a symptom or condition before prescribing any medication or surgery. On average, medical schools in North America offer less than 20 hours of nutrition education across 4 years of medical education. In the UK it's even less than that - an average of 11 hours. So I don't know why people are told to "talk to your doctor" before going on a specific diet. Just using diet to make my point about the kind of education doctors receive and why. Not saying diet is the cure-all... but it does matter. Just like your vehicle won't run properly or at all unless you give it the right kind of fuel, our bodies won't work well if we're ingesting things called food (or in our food) that the body doesn't know what to do with, like all the added cheap synthetic vitamins added back into all white flour products that's required by law in North America... and then people mistakenly think they have a "gluten sensitivity" or a "gluten intolerance" when what they're really reacting to is the cheap synthetic vitamins in that bread and pasta. Try pure semolina pasta imported from Italy where they do not fortify it. The ingredients are only semolina four aka durum wheat and water. This is why even some people diagnosed with Celiac found that when they went to Italy on holiday and had the pasta and bread there because they couldn't resist, did not react to it. Okay rant over. Sorry.
Sometimes it feels SO hard to stay calm and trust the process and not get overwhelmed. And all too easy to just fall into fear and despair. I want so badly to stay calm and it seems like the harder I try the more frustrated I get! I LOVE these videos but as soon as they’re over I fall back into fear. Is there anything I should focus on?
I was frightened and hopeless and decided to listen to this talk. It calmed me down considerably. *Maybe you should listen to it several times until you feel relaxed.*
