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Understanding Tension Myositis Syndrome
In these disorders, physical pain is the direct result of emotional factors. Your body is going through a
physiological change that has been initiated by psychological factors. Most of this activity is occurring through
your autonomic nervous system at the subconscious level.
You are familiar with migraine headaches and stomach ulcers being related to stress/anxiety. Start applying this
same type of thinking to your physical pain and you are on the right track. When emotions (energy) are repressed
they create blockages in our system. This allows our normal free flowing energy to become stuck and stored in
our muscle and nerve tissue. The biochemical process taking place is called oxygen deprivation. In this process
the autonomic nervous system will selectively decrease blood flow to muscle and nerve tissue. Blood flow is
closely regulated by emotional peptides, which signal receptors on blood vessels walls to constrict or dilate, and
this influences the amount and velocity of blood (oxygen) flowing through them from moment to moment. From a
psychological point of view, emotional energy has been repressed and is causing inner tension throughout our
autonomic nervous system.
These repressed feelings are the catalyst for oxygen deprivation. Emotions that are repressed become stuck
energy. Decreased blood flow results in muscle and nerve tissues that are receiving a insufficient supply of
oxygen. The result is physical pain, spasms, numbness and weakness.
In these pain disorders since the physical pain is not attributed to mechanical or physical dysfunctions, but
rather it is caused by the person's feelings, personality, and their subconscious state. Emotions and mental
activity that generate physical pain are fear, anger, guilt, frustration, worry, resentment, people pleasing, being
perfect and highly competitive and overly self-conscious. In these pain disorders the people who are highly likely
to create physical pain through inner tension have personality traits similar to the Type A. Take the Tension
Myositis Syndrome Emotional Survey. TMS Survey
These personality characteristics interact with stressful life situations, which, then initiates the physical pain
cycle. Our mind, as a defense strategy will repress emotional energy into the subconscious so that we will not be
aware of these feelings or experience them. This repression causes inner tension in our nervous system, which
initiates a biochemical change in our muscles, nerves and tendons. These changes create pain, which our mind is
using as a distraction strategy so that we will focus our attention on the body and away from disagreeable
thoughts and emotions.
Belleruth Naparstek, author and psychotherapist states that, "emotions are physical occurrences to the body.
Hope, anger, love, and despair are biochemical events. And psychotherapist are more and more coming to
understand that core psychological struggles appear to have actual locations in the body."
Elmer Green, the famous Mayo Clinic physician who pioneered early work in biofeedback says, "every change in
the physiological state is accompanied by an appropriate change in the mental emotional state, conscious or
unconscious, and conversely, every change in the mental emotional state, conscious or unconscious, is
accompanied by an appropriate change in the physiological state."
Neuroscientist and research professor, Dr. Candace Pert has contributed to much of the ground-breaking
research on this subject. She states, "I believe all emotions are healthy, because emotions are what unite the
mind and the body. Anger, fear, and sadness, the so-called negative emotions, are as healthy as peace, courage,
and joy. To repress these emotions and not let them flow freely is to set up a dis-integrity in the system, causing
it to act at cross-purposes rather than as a unified whole. The stress this creates, which takes the form of
blockages and insufficient flow of peptide signals to maintain function at the cellular level, is what sets up the
weakened conditions that can lead to disease."
The disease that Pert refers to we can easily identify as the pain sensations that we feel in our body in these
disorders. A simple explanation to how inner tension/stress creates physical pain is to remember that all
thoughts and emotions are energy. An emotion or feeling is being denied or avoided and because of this
repression it is now blocked, stored or stuck energy in our body. This blocked energy is raising havoc (tension) in
our body because it wants to be experienced. There is a part of you, energy, trying to be expressed and a part of
you, energy, that is holding this expression down and most of this is happening under our awareness, in our
subconscious.
This intense conflict is now erupting in our body & mind. The tension from this inner conflict will eventually erupt
as a concentrated experience of pain. Blood flow as been chronically constricted depriving our tissue of oxygen.
Our intention is to heal, to get rid of the pain disorder. We do this by keeping the information, our energy and
emotions, flowing freely and communicating within and about our body & mind systems in a balanced, open,
efficient way. When we do this we no longer have energy being stored, blocked and stuck. When our system is
open and free, we have linked our psyche (thought, emotion and spirit) to our physical bodies (molecules, cells
and tissue) in a free flowing exchange and simulation of the information energy.
This requires a daily practice of emotional and present moment awareness. A waking, working mindfulness of
who we are being.
1. Begin to ACCEPT the TMS diagnosis. The Pain in this disorder is caused by psychological factors (inner tension/stress/anxiety.
2. Start to think psychologically. This means instead of, "how did I injure my body" or "how can I treat my injury" or "which
doctor can fix my body". You now must use your pain symptom as a signal to yourself and ask, what am I feeling right
now, or what is causing me to feel (stress, tension, anxiety) right now or how am I being, where is my attention now.
3. Stop all physical treatments and begin to develop the practice in Step 2. This is a big challenge for many to accept.
Stopping the physical treatments and even the "thinking" of physical treatments and instead focusing on how you are
generating (tension, stress, anxiety) within your self will render the pain strategy in this disorder useless. For real effectiveness, this must be genuine with confidence and conviction.
4. Deliberately and consciously redirect your focus out of stress/tension/anxiety producing behavior/thought patterns and into patterns that allow you to be mentally, emotionally and physically more open and less restrictive. More allowing and less repressing. More free and less closed-off. This is the daily, mindful work that is called Think Clean. Think Clean, which changes the way you are generating inner tension and changes or stops your daily repression activities, is the transforming therapy in The Master Practice Program.
5. Begin to incorporate the practice of Sitting with your Feelings. Several times a day for a few minutes make the choice to sit and be with how you are feeling. The key to making this practice effective is to shut-off the mind, your voices that will question, investigate justify or tell you that now is not a good time to do this. For 2 or 3 minutes be with your feeling and nowhere else. There is much more on this in The Master Practice Program, but this is a very important practice to understand and incorporate into your daily life.
These are the Keys to reversing the pain cycle. Simple? Yes. Challenging? Yes. Is there more to it than this? Not really. This
is a personal pain disorder uniquely tied to your personality and dominant thought or chronic patterns. Understand and practice this truth and you will heal. You don't have to do this alone though. The Master Practice Program will help you tremendously get on the right path of reversing TMS and then provide you the tools/practices to live with TMS, but witout the pain and other symptoms constantly disrupting your life.
DISCLAIMER: The information on this site is not intended as
medical advice. It is practical knowledge and experience on how
to alternatively eliminate chronic pain symptoms caused by
psychological factors. Medical questions and diagnosis should
be directed to your medical physician. This website is not
affiliated with Dr. John Sarno or his medical practice.
The TMS Master Practice Program - The New-Sarno TMS Program
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