Get Rid Of TMS With The Master Practice

"The New-Sarno-TMS program by Monte Hueftle, TMS Mind Body Coach"

The TMS Master Practice Program - The New-Sarno TMS Program

monte@runningpain.com

Important TMS Updates

Since 2003 Monte has been providing updates that provide a unique insight into the healing requirements necessary to fully understand the dynamic TMS Mind Body Syndrome, how to reverse it and how to live with it. Dr. John Sarno stated more than 40 years ago, "The most important factor in recovery is that the person must be made aware of what is going on...information...is the 'penicillin' for this disorder."

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Learning How to Live with TMS
This is the first runningpain.com TMS update (February, 2011) of several to come this year in which the theme is exploring the experience of learning to live with TMS. My experience in living with TMS, which is now quite extensive, has convinced me that most people (TMS patients) are unclear about this "journey" and for several good reasons. Because these reasons are so valid (keeping you stuck) we are going to explore them (and call BS when needed) to help get you unstuck and on the healing path that allows you to live with TMS but without the pain and other TMS symptoms affecting your life in a negative way.

Is there a cure for TMS that will allow me to get rid of symptoms forever?
No, this is a mind body syndrome with a "strategy" and as long as you have a mind and a body you have the potential to experience TMS mind body symptoms. You will find that the more you can completely accept this truth, the more efficient and effective you will rid yourself of symptoms and continue to live without them.

Is it possible to reverse the TMS pain strategy and live pain free and symptom free?
Yes, this is a mind body syndrome with a "strategy" and you can learn how to communicate to this strategy in a way that keeps it rendered useless and you can learn how to generate the quality of energy that promotes balance/flexibility/alignment in your mind which is then automatically distributed and experienced (not always immediately) in the body.

Why do I have TMS? Why doesn't everyone have TMS?
Remember that TMS is a mind body syndrome with a "strategy" attached to it. Everyone in the universe who has a mind and a body experiences mind body effects or symptoms. We all have experienced a tummy ache or a tension headache or a stress filled stiff neck. We experience it for an hour or two, a day or two and it is gone. Even the mass medical community will acknowledge these truths (experiences) as symptoms caused by inner stress/tension/anxiety. However, not everyone gets mind body symptoms that are chronic and are being affected and directed by an intelligent, creative and powerful strategy! A strategy that is designed to keep you distracted away from the psychological (how you are being/your emotions/experiencing your feelings) and instead keep you focused on the pain, the treatments, what is wrong with me, who will fix me, etc!
Back to the question - Why do I have this? We don't know. We know it is psychological, we know it is a matter of our unique behavior and thought patterns, the way we repress emotions and deal with our feelings, but no one is going to give you the perfect answer that your rational mind is craving. And the really good news is, it doesn't matter! You do not need to have this question answered to reverse TMS and the symptoms. And the more you search for it or believe you must know it, the more you keep "feeding" the TMS strategy or sabotaging your healing journey.

I know that my back pain is TMS but I'm not sure about my foot/knee/sciatica/piriformis/hip/IBS/migraines/numbness/shoulder/elbow/wrist/chronic fatigue/Fibromyalgia/Etc/Etc/Etc?
The very simple and truthful answer is, if you are a TMS person then 99.999999% of all these other aches/pains/strains and other mind body symptoms are TMS. It is perfectly normal to experience a variety of: constant pain, sporadic spasms, chronic pain, burning/shooting sensations, numbness, sharp, dull, pain only after activity, pain only when relaxing, pain when sleeping, pain that gradually gets better throughout the day, severe intense days, followed by less intense days. It's all common and normal in TMS.
Don't get stuck on the symptoms, in this syndrome they are intended to keep you distracted. Remember, they are simply a signal to remind you not to be distracted and to think psychological.

Why do some people read Sarno and get rid of their pain in days or weeks and other people continue to struggle?
The simple answer is a person's total belief or a complete acceptance of the TMS diagnosis followed by genuinely communicating this acceptance to the TMS strategy through their thought and practice of the basic principles of thinking psychological. When total acceptance is in place and this is communicated to the strategy with confidence and genuine conviction the strategy can immediately be rendered useless.
--Pain or symptom is a Signal to Think Psychological - knowing/believing that this is not a physical caused dysfunction or injury but that the cause is psychological (inner stress/tension/anxiety/pressure)
--This belief allows us to Stop treatments and any type of searching for a treatment fix and allows us to
--Resume as best we can normal activities while not focusing on or being distracted by the symptoms or fear.

This total belief/complete acceptance is something that cannot be measured. Only you know if it is 100% genuine in you. Whether you are a TMS newbie or a 20 year Sarno veteran, you must respect the Strategy and realize that you are communicating to it at all times.

If I believe the TMS diagnosis and I am still in pain, does this mean I have deeply repressed emotions that are causing my chronic symptoms?
Absolutely not! This is one of the biggest un-truths of the TMS diagnosis and treatment programs being distributed by the TMS community. And one that I will continue to rage against until the TMS community (Dr./counselor/psychologist) wakes up and begins to address the real cause. The continued emphasis on deeply repressed emotions by the TMS community demonstrates both ignorance and a lack of credibility in actual experience of living with TMS or in working with people who are experienced in living with TMS.
Why is this important for you to undertand? Because continually searching for and trying to heal a deeply repressed emotion (that may or may not be there) keeps you in the strategy. You are consumed with it and it has you. This also sabotages your ability to change the the real cause (how you are generating inner tension & repressing emotions every day). Many believe that once they find this big, huge repressed emotion and are aware of it and make peace with it, then they will be pain free and can forget about TMS and go back to living their life. This is not the way TMS works.
People, this is not theory, this is both personal experience and my experience is working with TMS patients. Many who personally saw Sarno and a TMS psychologist 20 years ago. Some reversed TMS by reading a book, some needed therapy and then reversed TMS. Now they are back in pain and it is TMS and reading the old TMS book is not helping. So they go searching for repressed emotions and that isn't working either. Now what? You keep searching which "feeds" the pain strategy and/or you go into doubt/fear that maybe this isn't TMS which "feeds" the pain strategy and now you are really stuck. Do I have TMS or not. Is it deeply repressed emotions that we didn't uncover 20 years ago or what....And the TMS symptom cycle continues and the TMS strategy is at work and has absolutely no reason to stop.

Are repressed emotions part of the TMS syndrome?
Yes, of course, repressed emotional energy is one of the main ingredients causing inner tension in TMS! However, there are two big, huge factors that must be understood.
1. It is our day-to-day patterns of behavior and thought that are generating Inner Tension and
2. It is our day-to-day patterns of behavior and thought that are repressing our emotions (emotional energy).

This is day-to-day, moment-to-moment repression of day-to-day, moment-to-moment feelings/emotions and not this big huge and in many cases fictitious deeply repressed emotions from your childhood. What makes this day-to-day repression such a big, huge contributor of the inner tension in TMS is that it is Chronic. A TMS person has been chronically generating inner tension and chronically repressing emotional energy for 10-20-30-40 years. When you start changing or affecting how you are generating inner tension and repressing emotions right now, in the present, you can begin to reverse this cause/effect - mind/body syndrome right now, in the present.

TMS is a day-to-day, moment-to-moment chronic mind body syndrome with a strategy attached to it. The key to reversing TMS and living with TMS is understanding that the most important element is becoming aware of and affecting change in "how am I being right now".
--How you are being right now means you are either being distracted and "feeding" the strategy or you or genuinely thinking psychological.
--How you are being right now means you are generating a quality of energy that is communicating tons of tension/stress/pressure or you are generating a quality o energy that is being more open/flexible/balanced/aligned/allowing a little more often.
--How your are being right now means you are repressing emotional energy or you are being more open/allowing and experiencing your emotional energy more often.
--How you are being right now means you are in the future or past (unaware of the quality of energy you are generating and unaware that you are repressing emotional energy) or you are becoming more present-moment based where you are able to deliberately affect the quality of energy that you generate and you can intentionally choose to allow yourself to experience emotions instead of deny or avoid them. This is why the statement - Your healing practices are more effective and greatly enhanced in present time is Truth!

Wow, that's a lot of hard work! Wouldn't it just be easier to read about this, visit the TMS help sites and go have some therapy to fix me?
Reading about TMS, visiting message boards about TMS and having someone fix you through therapy can help you and they can sabotage your healing journey. You need to figure out where you are at in healing and learning to live with TMS. Ultimately this is a personal journey where you must discover and open up to your own truths about yourself.
But that is what personal transformation is all about isn't it! You are transformed by truth and eventually that transformation leads to an empowering and healing change in how you are being right now. And that changes everything!
Monte Hueftle
TMS Mind Body Coach
Learning How to Live with TMS - 2nd Update
This is the 2nd runningpain.com- TMS update of several to come this year in which the theme is exploring the experience of learning to live with TMS. My experience in living with TMS, which is now quite extensive, has convinced me that most people (TMS patients) are unclear about this "journey" and for several good reasons. Because these reasons are so valid (keeping you stuck) we are going to explore them (and call BS when needed) to help get you unstuck and on the healing path that allows you to live with TMS but without the pain and other TMS symptoms affecting your life in a negative way.

Do you genuinely care about how you feel on a day-to-day basis?

Do you realize that how you feel is a direct result or effect of how you are being (behaviors & thoughts).

Can you genuinely care about how you feel and practice actually feeling or experiencing your emotions without it being a means to an end...without it being a "treatment" to fix this TMS syndrome?

Thinking psychological is the most important practice to engage in when living with TMS.

Part of thinking psychological is thinking clean. We have to clean-up some of the daily tension that we generate and we have to stop repressing some of the emotional energy that we allow ourselves to avoid or deny on a daily basis (generating more tension). We do this with think clean strategies.

A big, huge part of Think Psychological and Think Clean is learning how and when to stop thinking and instead to be with our feelings or emotional energy!

Allowing or experiencing emotional energy in this way can only be done when you get out of your head/mind. Make it your daily practice to call time-out and be with your feelings/emotional energy a few times a day for a few minutes.

Sitting with your Feeling or Emotions (A very important part of Think Psychological)
Sitting with our feelings or emotions as a way to release or dissipate our emotional energy is part of Think Psychological and Think Clean. This is a very powerful practice of calling time-out on all this thinking stuff and instead give ourselves the opportunity to be with or allow our emotional energy to be experienced.

The willingness to be with, to befriend our emotions and allow this energy to be experienced is key to releasing tension or stuck emotional energy that we repress on a day-to-day basis.

1. Have it your intention to be mindful of your feelings. Be genuinely interested in how you are feeling.

2. Acknowledge to yourself how you are feeling. I feel and state how you feel. It could be angry, sad, lonely, depressed, bored, frustrated, anxious, scattered, or guilty. Do not allow yourself off the hook by saying I don't know what I feel. This isn’t about naming/identifying an emotion it is about being with what you feel. It is about allowing your emotional energy to be experienced!

3. Be present with whatever you are feeling. Take a few deep mindful breaths and stay out of thinking and be with whatever feeling is present within you.

4. As you are being with your feeling, resist the urge to avoid or deny it. It is going to come as a thought like: I don't have time do this right now, I need to get back to work, or I think I will search on the internet, or I think I will call a friend or I think I will get something to eat, or I think I will read about this again and then try it tonight. These voices are trying to sabotage you so recognize this and dismiss them.
This is the uncomfortable part of this practice. Be with the feeling and be with the uncomfortable-ness and do not allow yourself to slip away into thought.

5. As you stay with the feeling, whatever is there, keep breathing into it and being present with it. Avoid the need to analyze it, judge it, find blame or negotiate with it. Stop any of the reasoning stuff and be with your feeling.

6. That's it. When the uncomfortable-ness is gone you are done. A final note to help make this effective and efficient, don't look for the payoff or reward. No agenda and no timeframe. When you let go of any expectation and incorporate this practice as a way of being open and allowing with your feelings you will experience positive progress and the transformation has begun! This is a very powerful and effective practice to begin to incorporate into your daily life a little more often. A couple of times a day for two or three minutes will provide big, huge benefits.

Remember that our thought and behavior patterns are doing two things. 1. Generating inner tension and 2. Repressing or helping us deny/avoid our emotions. Sometimes we simply need to change or redirect out of our tension generating patterns/repressing activity via the practice of Think Clean and sometimes we need to experience or be with our feelings with no thinking involved first and then redirect into the present moment or into more open, flexible or balanced patterns.

This is how you reverse TMS symptoms and how you live with TMS but without the constant struggle with new/old symptoms. This is your work! When you incorporate these practices into your life as a way of being and not as a treatment to fix something that is wrong you change everything! You change the communication back to the TMS Strategy from one of being distracted and "feeding" the pain syndrome to one of "I know exactly what is going on here, I know this is mindbody, I don't need you anymore, I am not distracted"! And that is the communication that renders this pain syndrome useless!!! Of course the big, huge side benefit from all of this is that you are no longer generating all this extra pressure and tension, you are no longer repressing as much emotional energy on a daily basis and you are living/being in a more open, present, balanced, flexible and aligned way. You have dramatically changed the quality of energy that gets transmitted to your autonomic nervous system, which means you have dramatically changed the effects/symptoms that you will receive and experience. This is how piriformis or sciatica or back pain or a sore & stiff body magically transform into a body that is open and balanced and aligned and flexible.

No matter what TMS symptom you are experiencing, the formula for eliminating them is always the same. Don't get distracted and "feed" the pain strategy and do the Work as a way of being and not as a treatment.

Monte Hueftle
TMS Mind Body Coach
TMS Update
Hi Everyone,
For all the many, many gifts that we have been given, none is as powerful as the gift of Choice. Your most powerful gift in life is Choice. Your most powerful gift in reversing TMS is Choice.
So how does choice affect us in TMS? For every choice we make there is a consequence. Many of us define choice at a very elementary level. What should I eat for dinner or what should I watch on television.
With TMS, realize that we make hundreds of choices everyday that are not elementary and they greatly impact our TMS life:
-A choice of our attitudes, thoughts and behaviors
-A choice of our belief system
-What resentments or judgments we keep
-To live in the past or live in the present
-To change or to remain stuck and wait for someone or something to fix us
-It is a choice to believe TMS is a deeply repressed emotions disorder and refuse or deny to change how you are generating inner tension and repressing emotions with your chronic thought and behavior patterns every day

Every one of these choices carry with it incredible potency! We are speaking of powerful energy that can cripple you in pain or unchain your physical demons and set you free. Each of these can occur within a wink of an eye or the snap of the finger!
When we first learn about TMS we choose to Accept it or Not.
When Dr. Sarno told us to Think Psychological and not physical we made a choice to what degree we were comfortable with that change, if at all!
When I tell you it is your day-to-day thoughts and behavior patterns that are not only generating inner tension/stress in your life (cause) but also this is how you are repressing emotional energy (cause) on a day to day basis, you get to choose what level of belief and change to commit to this truth, if any at all!
It is impossible to Think Psychological and think physical dysfunction/injury at the same time. You cannot be open and allowing with a feeling and repress it at the same time. It’s not possible to be in the past if you are in the present moment. If you are making conscious choices you are not on unconscious autopilot. These are all very significant and powerful choices that are making up the threads of your TMS life and are the very reason you are either reversing this disorder or are stuck!
Let’s now put choice into our TMS life as it relates to the speed of healing or reversing TMS. One of the most common questions that I receive is; how fast is this Think Psychological stuff going to work or how quickly can I reverse the TMS strategy and become pain free if I follow this program?
Understand that the Speed at which people heal is equivalent to the speed at which genuine change occurs in their lives! Digest that very potent yet subtle truth. Healing or health manifest at the rate of genuine change!
Why can some people impact the quality of their heath (reverse the TMS strategy) almost instantaneously and for other people, no matter what they do, the transformation of health in their life/body takes a long, long time? What is the difference?
The difference is where they are choosing to invest their energy/attention. People that reverse TMS quickly and efficiently are able to incorporate genuine changes in their beliefs, attitudes and behavior patterns rather quickly and efficiently without becoming consumed in doubt and massively stuck in the fear of change.
The more you can keep your energy in present time the more efficient and effective you will receive health and the quicker you will reverse the TMS strategy. Example, when you choose to invest your energy into worry, pleasing, ambition, trauma or past memory (the quality of this energy is high tension/pressure) you are giving your life energy to these situations. Your energy, rather than serving you in the moment for healing is being directed because of this choice into your history and it is keeping your past alive more than the present moment. Many of you don’t realize that this is a choice and think that it has nothing to do with reversing/healing from TMS, but understand that you are using your past (tension, stress, anger, resentment, attitude, memory) quality of energy to create your present experience. This chronic cycle of generating inner tension and repressing emotional energy results in a chronic cycle of feeding the pain strategy and it feeds the cause/effect consequences of how your are being right now (cause) and what you are experiencing right now (symptoms) in your body.
Keeping your past alive is not a great investment of your energy or your time. The more time you spend in the past (cause of tension) or the more time you choose to be in your chronic thought/behavior patterns (cause of tension) the MORE TIME it takes to create the present moment that you want (health and the reversal of TMS)
When your request, I want to heal my body and reverse TMS, is made, what determines the speed with which you will do this? If you have a history of unfinished business and/or if you have made the choice to remain in old chronic patterns of being – You are enabling the Cause of TMS to manifest and you are communicating to the TMS strategy, I will allow this TMS to heal at the rate/speed that honors the pain of my past and that doesn’t jostle (change to much) the way I am being right now. People don’t want to change too much too fast. Realize though that healing is change and change is healing. This is Truth.
It is a choice to hold onto the past, a choice to genuinely Think Psychological, a choice to be with feelings versus ignore them, a choice to be present more often, to change attitudes, beliefs and old chronic thought and behavior patterns and to challenge and adjust repression activities. Your most powerful gift in reversing TMS is Choice.
TMS is a mind body syndrome. As long as you have a mind and body functioning you are living with the potential to experience all kinds of mind body effects/symptoms.

Stay the Course,

Monte Hueftle
TMS Mind Body Coach
Communicating Effectively to the TMS Pain/Distraction Strategy - TMS Update

What causes most people to become stuck in TMS? Without question it is the strategy. A person can accept the mind-body relationship for many of their aches/pains/symptoms but not believe in or understand the strategy! Or a person can accept the TMS diagnosis completely but have no idea how to communicate effectively with it in order to reverse it. Both cases will undoubtedly lead to major stuck-ness and frustration.

The other day I was speaking with a TMS Sarno Veteran of 23 years. This woman has been successful numerous times of ridding herself from TMS pain. The last major back/neck episode for her was 4.5 years ago. We were speaking because she had been struggling the past 8 weeks with a new and slightly different back pain that had been progressively getting worse. For the first month she was convinced it was TMS but now doubts were beginning to surface and she was searching for a new diagnosis, testing out new treatments and looking to speak with anyone else who had experienced the same symptom.

Later the same week I spoke with a man that had just learned about TMS. The TMS diagnosis resonated with him for his back pain but not for the other pain symptoms he continued to struggle with (piriformis, sciatica and plantar fasciitis). He stated that he accepted stress was a part of his back pain, but he wasn't ready to believe that a subconscious strategy was also involved. Physical therapy, special stretches, activity rest and a huge fascination to figure out how all this works was consuming him.

I could provide any number of additional examples of stories from people with all varying backgrounds in mindbody and TMS whose life situations reflect a misunderstanding in the purpose of the strategy and confusion in how to effectively communicate to this intelligent, creative and powerful component of TMS.

Dr. Sarno's absolute genius over 40 years ago was telling us that this pain strategy exist And that the key to reversing it was to Think Psychological and not be distracted/focused on the pain symptoms. Sarno told us that the strategy was in place to protect us from experiencing unpleasant feelings. That of course was correct then and still is today.

As my understanding of TMS has evolved I have found it to be beneficial to expand on the purpose behind the TMS strategy. Yes, the strategy is trying to keep attention away from unpleasant feelings but it is also
working to get your attention focused on how you are being so you can make some beneficial changes. If the strategy was speaking to you today it would be saying, "hey, why are you so uptight, why are you worrying all the time, why are you holding stuff (emotional) inside, why are you striving, perfecting, pleasing and controlling all the time, you are so unbalanced and inflexible in how you are being. I'm going to keep bugging you (back pain, spasms, piriformis, sciatica, neck pain, IBS, migraines, etc.) until you take a look at how you are being and begin to incorporate some changes in your life. I want you to enjoy your life and as soon as you genuinely understand this and really start incorporating more balance, presence, openness, allowing and flexibility into your life I'll leave you alone. And another thing, quit thinking something is physically wrong with you each time you get a new/different symptom. The symptoms are part of this to Signal you to take a look at how you are being. Remember this is mind-body, so the symptom even though it is physical is a Signal to go psychological (how you are being). Here is my promise to you. When you "get this", I mean really Get IT, I'm gone. I may come back once in awhile for a little visit (reminder) when you get off track, but once you Get It, I'm gone"

Strategy Points to Remember:
1) Intelligent - it will pick the perfect moment to initiate a symptom and it will move the symptoms around. Begin believing in TMS and genuinely start Thinking Psychological and it may increase the intensity of your symptom as a way to keep you distracted.
2) Creative - it will find the best way to get your attention. Example: Work at the computer all day? - Wrist pain; Playing music is your passion - Ear challenges; Teaching yoga is your big thing? - no downward/upward dog for you; You figured out back pain is TMS - try this new IBS symptom for awhile.
3) Powerful - Give the strategy an inch and it will take a mile. When you give a little bit of attention, doubt, fear or searching to a symptom you are feeding it and there is no reason for it to subside.
4) The strategy is not going to respond/act the way you think it should. We like to think logical, it should make sense to us, to our way of thinking. This just might be what throws people off more than anything. We have read about TMS, we have experienced it, so now we understand how it works. Well, that would make this much easier if true. However, Realize that we are speaking about two very different parts of our mind at work here. The strategy is part of our subconscious (innermost, intuitive and hidden aspects) and we are trying to understand it and communicate to it as this rational, reasonable, logical or sensible part of us. This type of communication not only doesn't work, it can easily play right into the intelligent hands of the strategy, keeping you distracted with doubts, fear and searching.

Effective Communication:
1) Be confident while you Stop treatments aimed to fix a broken or degenerate body. Instead, you go genuinely psychological with conviction.
2) Be confident while you Resume normal activities while keeping your focus out of fear and away from your body/symptom. If you are in an activity and the strategy has you distracted, stop and go psychological. This is not giving in to the strategy, it is choosing to ignore the body/symptoms and address the cause.
3) Accept and understand that it is this intelligent, creative and powerful strategy that makes this syndrome TMS. Everyone has mind-body experiences and effects, everyone! Not everyone experiences chronic mind-body symptoms in a pain/symptom cycle with the strategy playing the major role!
4) Be really okay with knowing that you are not going to know and understand everything about the how/why/when/where of the strategy in action. You don't have to understand all of the ins/outs of the strategy. Your job is to effectively communicate acceptance of the psychological cause while not being distracted.
5) Your response to pain/symptoms/strategy should be natural and spontaneous with confidence and conviction. What does that mean? It means there is no doubt, no searching or wondering about what is going on. It means pain/symptom is a signal to think psychological with no distraction. What does that mean?
5-A) It means that you automatically, naturally, spontaneously check in with how you are being- (ask yourself what is bothering me, where is my attention, what is stressing me, why am I worrying, how am I feeling). This is your genuine response without an inkling of distraction on the body/symptom or TMS thinking. You know this is TMS, you get it! The strategy is getting my attention so that I can make a change here or there. So that I can be a little more open or flexible or balanced in how I am being.
5-B) Your response could also be, instead of a think psychological question, to be with your feeling, your emotional state and nowhere else. Be with your feeling of (anger, stress, anxious, pressure, frustration, etc) with no thinking and no voices (no investigation, questioning or justifying). Again without even a twitch of distraction going to the pain, symptom or strategy. Since the strategy is designed to protect you from unpleasant feelings, your response is to be with these feelings. This is supreme communication to the strategy that you are not distracted, that you get it!
5-C) Another response could be to get present moment based or mindful of where you are, what you are doing or who you are with. Again this is spontaneous with no searching or doubt about what is going on.

When your responses are genuine because you understand and get it, really get and accept that TMS is a mind-body syndrome with an intelligent/creative strategy attached to it, you will be effective. Remember this strategy is in place to distract you - keep you from unpleasant feelings And it is in place to get your attention, so that you can make some beneficial changes to how you are being. When your responses come from this understanding they are supreme communication back to the strategy that you are not distracted and that you are accepting the Signal to Think Psychological, Be with feelings, Make changes and Get present.

The TMS strategy lives in the past and in the future. The most effective and efficient communication or response from you is one that is mindful and present moment based on your self and how you are being.

Healing one's body or one's life challenges requires daily practice and present moment attention. Master your responses so that they are genuine, natural and spontaneous ways of being instead of trying to control them as a means to fix something that is wrong.

Stay the course,

Monte Hueftle
TMS Mind Body Coach
TMS Update - A Lesson in TMS = Balance

We have many ideas about TMS that are simply not true. One encompasses the logic around 'curing' TMS. I can assure you that there is not a 'cure' for TMS and there never will be. Healing from TMS involves a lifestyle approach and as long as you have a mind and a body you are living a life that will always produce mind-body effects/symptoms and will always have the potential to generate chronic mind-body effects/symptoms that can be classified as TMS. A person that desires to heal TMS symptoms will be best served by accepting and adopting this truth.

Have you heard the adage: "Learn the lessons that life comes to teach rather than resenting the teacher". TMS is a teacher, it is not a punishment! TMS is essentially a learning experience/situation/challenge that has a lesson for us to learn. The big picture lesson of TMS is that something is out of Balance in your life. We are quite fortunate that our mind-body system has an inborn mechanism that seeks balance. Our job is to make some adjustments (minor or major) in how we are Being. What are our big, huge tension generators? Perfecting, Pleasing, Striving, Holding in feelings, Controlling, Being Competitive or Overly self-conscious, Habitual worry? When we are heavy duty in some or all of these patterns we are (1) Generating Inner Tension and we are (2) Repressing or Avoiding our Emotions. Eventually we get the effects of this unbalanced way of being.

TMS, as a teacher, is giving you the opportunity to assess the quality of choices you are making and the consequences (symptoms) that these choices create in your life!

Most people that come to me for coaching or guidance for reversing TMS are looking for a quick fix. I usually represent their final stop. They have been a patient of Dr. Sarno, they have been with a TMS psychologist, went through Dr. Schecther's workbook and/or Dr. Schubiners program. Having experienced cures, successes and lapses, they are now confronted with a new TMS symptom or recurrence of an old one and are hoping for the final bit of information that can ultimately end their TMS struggles.

There is a quick fix! Sometimes very quick and other times not as quick as people would like. Healing from the chronic TMS cycle begins when you can accept that there is not a cure. Healing from TMS continues when you accept, adopt and begin practicing the lifestyle approach.

Healing one's body or one's life challenges requires daily practice and attention
from Caroline Myss

TMS Roadblocks:

1) TMS Support Groups and TMS Help/Message Boards - Dr. Sarno stated that 'information is the penicillin' for TMS. Dr. Sarno had weekly and monthly lectures to help people understand and have CONFIDENCE in TMS. This was prior to the internet age. These lectures worked because they were weekly and monthly. There was time in between for people to reflect and do genuine inner work. I'm sure he never envisioned someone would be online everyday searching, investigating and analyzingTMS. As well-intentioned as these groups and online sites are, they are keeping people Stuck in TMS. They are helping you Avoid and Deny your emotions, they confuse you, create doubt and they keep you searching/analyzing and investigating. They are your distraction.

Sidebar: I have read one book on TMS, Healing Back Pain, back in 1999. The only TMS book I have ever read. I did not even know that TMS help sites/support groups existed. I literally can tell a person everything they need to know about TMS in 10 minutes. I'm not boasting, I want you to understand that the concept of TMS is quite simple. It is Mind-Body and/or Cause/Effect. Spend your time and energy in making adjustments and bringing balance into your life. Your work in healing your body and life's challenges requires daily practice and present-moment attention to the real cause of TMS. I have successfully used this approach to remain free of the TMS chronic pain/symptom cycle for 12+ years. Don't let the searching, analyzing, investigating, intellectualizing and socializing of the internet Distract you away from your inner work that only you can do. It will keep you stuck!

2) Searching for repressed emotions and believing that finding them is the Cure - Once people accept TMS and begin practicing 'think psychological', this is the place they get stuck. Yes, repressed emotional energy is the main ingredient in TMS. If you have unfinished business in the past then by all means address the past. However, most of the repressed emotional energy in TMS is the day-to-day stuff. We repress/avoid/deny our emotions everyday when we are in our chronic patterns of: Worry, Striving, Perfecting, Pleasing, Controlling, Competing, Being Self-Conscious. This chronic repression that has been going on in your life for the past 10, 20, 30 years or more is the big, huge repression in TMS. This is the Unbalance that TMS has come to help you with. We can easily learn to make small and big adjustments in some areas of our life (thoughts/behavior patterns) that will change everything. It’s hard work but easy to understand if you can get out of the ‘cure me’ mode and into the ‘I get it, I need to make some adjustments/lifestyle mode’.

Sidebar: Sitting with Emotions Practice - page 54 of The Master Practice - This is the most effective and efficient way to spontaneously reverse TMS. Dr. Sarno told us to 'Think Psychological'. Thinking psychological will break the strategy of TMS. You no longer focus on the body/symptoms and instead you go psychological. Sitting with Emotions is how you go psychological for emotional work, however the less you think the better. When you sit with your emotions and shut-off the mind you allow yourself to experience repressed emotional energy. This practice will dissipate the repressed tension energy and it dissipates the compulsion to go back into one of your chronic thinking patterns! This practice is how you EXPERIENCE emotions and it is how you STOP or interrupt your repression pattern. If you will make this practice a genuine part of your life and not a Fix or Treatment for TMS you will begin to understand how the lifestyle approach works!

3) Fear, doubt and rational/intellectual thinking. These are the typical qualities of the person who has not accepted TMS 100%. Again, Dr. Sarno's genius was making us aware of the intelligent Pain/Distraction Strategy associated with TMS. People keep the strategy 'alive' with fear, doubt and rational/intellectual thinking. Fear consumes and keeps you focused on the body and who can fix you. Doubt keeps you searching for a different cause or treatment. Rational/intellectual thinking is the sophisticated way to stay stuck. You can rationalize almost every TMS symptom into a physical cause or dysfunction if you try. The more you rationalize and intellectualize your symptoms the more irrational TMS will respond to you. It's all distraction. Distraction is your enemy and the TMS Strategy's best friend. Belief, Confidence, Conviction and Acceptance are your invisible allies that reverse and defeat the TMS strategy. These are also the qualities that allow you to genuinely live the lifestyle approach to reversing TMS.

Sidebar: Remember that you must address both components of TMS if you want to live without the constant struggle. 1) Communicate to the strategy with confidence and conviction that you accept the TMS, psychological cause. Don’t get sidetracked and distracted by anything outside of you.
2) Address both components of the Cause: A) Repressed emotional energy. B) Your patterns that are doing the repressing.

Remember that TMS is a teacher. Bringing balance into your life is the solution. Make sure you make it a genuine lifestyle solution of change and not a treatment or quick fix!

Stay the course,

Monte Hueftle
TMS Mind Body Coach
www.runningpain.com

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.

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