I tried this today. I noticed my lower back pain was flaring, so I stopped everything I was doing. Stood still and listened. I asked myself 'What are you feeling?' Instantly I got boiling hot, it was anger. (surprise surprise) I let it run through me as I clenched my fists. Within minutes the pain had reduced considerably. Before I decided to listen, I would have had zero idea that I was angry. Yet there it was. Will definitely try again in the coming days.
What a wonderful message! I had an amazing insight about anger. Never realized mine-which I never believed I had- is coming out “sideways” in my judgments!! SO major for me-I’ve been thinking I’m just not a “nice” person. Thank You thank you thank you!!!!
Yess incredibly helpful. Your work Jim stands apart in the mind body field where you regard the emotional component essential for the work. Irrespective of whether we cognitively think we do or do not have identified trauma we don’t really know in a “felt sense” till we become ‘aware’ of what is arising in the body. Thank you for your fabulous teachings and practical support.
I have been dealing with chronic back pain for 3 years. I have been working with this approach for awhile but felt that I was missing something. I just found it in this video, thank you so much!! You perfectly explained the elusive piece.
Very interesting about feelings of things being unfair are rooted in anger. I hadn’t associated feelings of injustice or unfairness with anger. I associate it more with helplessness or sadness. I would be interested in you teasing that out some more.
Yes what’s helpful is to think how someone else would feel if xyz happened. Anger sits and hides between anxiety and sadness for some people. If someone does something to to you don’t like or is not right (injustice) it will provoke anger in you. Unfairness is common amongst people pleasers etc as they don’t get a fair amount back and give a lot more. That provokes internal anger as well
@@thepainpt thank you. I am learning so much. I have got much better with your labelling method at identifying the emotion but there are still some where I sit there and can’t work out what the underlying emotion is. I love your suggestion to think about how someone else might react to identify the emotion. I have got so used to solving everyone else’s problems that I have lost touch with my own emotions. As you said in one of your recent videos, setting boundaries is a key part of the recovery.
I’ve been in Dr Sarno’s methode for 8 weeks now. The emotions is hard , I don’t feel them. I practice with emotionel tracking. Sometimes I juist feel sadness, nothing else.
Again emotions is the one category people have the most difficulty which that also means it’s the one category we need to focus on the most!! start with sadness whatever is there is there. your emotions are also your symptoms once any structural stuff has been ruled out
Really looking forward to your group sessions Jim. I signed up about a week ago but have not received the intake form and just wanted to check that I have not missed it/its gone into junk etc. It maybe that you haven’t sent them out yet? Also, I am so glad you will be focussing on emotions. Like you, I can do the education, meditation and brain work endlessly but the emotional work is harder. Realise after listening to this video this is an active avoidance as underlying it is the fear of being overwhelmed by the emotions, emotions being related to a series of traumatic events and fear that letting go of the emotions will cause more symptoms (I know! Symptoms will only go once I let these emotions come and go!). So I’ve stuffed the emotions down for years so it’s so hard to FEEL them now. Your videos on interaception and emotional tracking and letting it come and go are really helping but will be great to do more in the groups. Thanks for putting them on.
Yes thanks looking forward to having you on the weekly group meetings. I’m going to go through all the request forms in the next day or two and you’ll be receiving an email from me with more information. For anybody else out there you can join at any time during the month and yes we are going to go into emotions. you put it really well in your explanation!!
@@thepainpt They say 92% of doctor visits are due to stress (mental/emptional). They say cigarettes give u lung cancer , bullshytt...my aunt died of full blown lung cancer,,,never smoked 1 day in her life. She developed this because she hated taking care of her wheelchaired bound young husband who died 2 years ago..thats when she started fading more and more away. Her anger or resentment or frustration (emotion) killed her. I read a story of a Dr. Of oncologist who developed testicular cancer 1-2 years after his beloved son died in a tragic accident. Emotions I beleive are everything! How can a person full of joy and happiness develop a disease or cancer? His body is too strong , his immune system is great! Stress makes the immune system go LOW and weak! Dr john sarno books helped me with insomnia ,10 years ago when I had a feat of something. Couldn't sleep and had a big fear and depression cus of it. Now I sleep like a baby even if I had 5 cups of coffee few minutes before. The knowledge is 1000% more powerful than any pill, drug, pillow, socks on or off, lights on or off, etc etc. I have a high respect for Dr john sarno, ! If there were many more like him there wouldn't be too many doctors and urgent care practices.
I watch your videos daily. They help keep my head above water as I plod through ME/CFS and its many symptoms. Presently, my digestion has gotten so bad with pain and nausea, (and tinnitus/head pressure/muscle tension - often sliding up and down with the gut distress) that it makes eating and sleeping an overwhelming challenge. So I'm wondering if TMS somatic practices would be helpful in this situation. That is to say, have you heard of, or run into cases in which severe gut issues appear to have a Limbic / Amygdala origin? ~ I've been unable to find any significant information on this.
Love the message of acknowledging emotions to drain the amygdala awesome video thanks for sharing Jim. Could you possibly give some more info on what happens in the weekly group calls that you have how they structured? How much time is spent practicing being somatic present and how much time is sort of talking and questions and answers et cetera?
I was doing pretty good for awhile . But for the last few months I’ve been waking up panicky lots of adrenaline surges. Sometimes I think it’s dreams but I can’t always remember them. The panic starts the pain and then the fear of the pain makes a loop . If I could get a handle on that I would be way better. I get these waves of anxiety and then the pain. So after you identify the emotion what do you do with it. I noticed that when I get outside at just get busy working around it lessens. I just wish I could stop the early morning smack in the face with the panic. I don’t need caffeine. If someone could tap into this energy you could light up a house. LoL
Haha yeah it’s just anxiety so let it come and let it go just allow it to move through you you can’t stop it but how you work with it will reduce it in time. Just feel the panic through it will subside don’t worry about it Or get more fearful of it or freak out about it those are secondary reactions
So insightful. Thanks JIm. What is the main emotion is Guilt often related to? Is it related to self criticism ie anger turned inwards? Also, if anger is related to fight, and fear to flight, is sadness then related to freeze? ie what emotions are related to freeze or does it depend on the individual? Thanks.
Yes we will cover more of that but you are correct in your understanding. Guilt is in the sadness category but it is related to anger in a way that sometimes it will block the expression of anger or come in after anger
❤ I always enjoy the way you explain things. I’m curious. If you’re meant to face your emotions shouldn’t that also mean facing feelings of anger or sadness about the limitations that health challenges place on our life? How do you reconcile that with the lack of resistance approach to symptoms? 🔥
If the pain is chronic then yes do look to the emotions because structural physical pain heals. as long as the surgical side is ruled out with any issues then you should be good to go to treat it as a chronic pain issue
Thank you for the video Jim. I would like to ask you if we need to-identify and feel the sensation (while doing somatick tracking) to release it. I mean, I generally feel my stomach, feet, arms and hands with a lot of tension and I from a while ago, what I do is just feeling these sensations without trying to know which feeling they represent or the reason why they are. But I have watched in other channels and read in other posts, that it is necessary to identify the sensation (if it is anger, fear or sadness) and feel it with the purpose of releasing it (either by journalling or somatic tracking). Can you please give me your opinion? Thanks!!
Good question, you can release the stuff somatically. labeling the emotional flavor of the sensation and let it move freely through your body as a body expression. You can also do written expression or imaginary expression as well to release emotional stress from the body.
Do you all the things that we know about emotions. Feel them through let them move through your body freely which is the symptoms. Journal, express your feelings to other people. face your fears, use your anger, for assertiveness eMpowerment let your sadness flow
What you first need to know is where the source of the problem is is it structural or is it emotional meaning brain and nervous system? Your treatment comes first from that diagnosis
@@thepainpt thanks, yes I’ve had scans on my back and my shoulder Back they couldn’t see much and my shoulder has a partial 6mm tear in the suprasprinatus My shoulder pops, clicks, cracks and clunks causing pain, weakness and soreness - I’ve had that for 4 years
