This Is Not Mind Over Matter: End Neural Circuit Pain and Symptoms
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- čas přidán 11. 05. 2024
- Recently someone asked me if the techniques here are "mind over matter". It seems like an innocent question, but it raised a really important point.
No, This is not mind over matter.
Why? Well, watch the video to learn why it's so important to understand the difference between mind over matter and what we do here.
Why? you've probably tried mind over matter in the past and realized it failed at helping you end neural circuit pain and symptoms.
When you understand where chronic pain and symptoms come from, you can reverse the process and end them.
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Thankyou Dr Christine for all these videos. I developed CRPS after ankle surgery and found it is really important to learn as much as I can about this syndrome. I am on the road to recovery but I need all this support to help me understand and not live in fear that this is permanent
Hi, I'm glad to hear you're on your way to overcoming your symptoms, and you're moving in the right direction! The body knows what to do, and nothing is permanent. It's always changing and moving toward wholeness. Thanks for being here!
You make such great points!
Thank you.
I've had varicose vein procedures, first 10 years ago and again last year. Symptoms of sciatic pain started soon after, but I didn't connect it. Now it's morphed into pins and needles in legs and feet, feet than feel like they are swelling, but are not. Dr Schubiner diagnosed me with TMS. I've worked with his and other mind body programs, but symptoms seem to keep spreading. I know there's still a lack of safety around my legs and poor circulation. I practice qigong, walk regularly and go to the gym. Any suggestions? Thank you.
Hello, Thanks for your note. My first thought is how fortunate you are to have such a certain TMS/mind-body diagnosis from Dr. Schubiner. Rely on that certainty any time symptoms try to convince you otherwise.
I'm happy to hear how active you are. Let that also be evidence that your body is working just fine.
Your brain is mimicking sensations and that makes you think something is wrong, but as you say, you can see for yourself your feet are not swollen.
Do your best to make any worrisome thoughts about the symptoms as small and distant as possible. When we focus on them, they become bigger and more intense (like things do under a microscope). In your minds eye, make them small and distance and call them out for what they are. Nothing more than TMS.
Thanks so much! Your suggestions are very helpful. Exactly the encouragement I need!!
Hello Christine,
I don’t know if my question is relevant, but it preoccupies me :
Do you think there might be a connection for people affected by chronic pain (TMS) and ADHD (which I think I'm affected by, but not yet diagnosed with).
Hello. My first answer is, yes. But my follow up answer is, don't let that discourage you or think that it will be harder for you to overcome your pain or symptoms. The neurodivergent brain seems to have a more active and move sensitive fight or flight system. Also, we have a harder time filtering out pain and other nuisance sensations. But, in spite of that, our brains respond just as well to what you're learning here. I made a whole video on this a while back. (I have ADHD and ASD). This video applies to any sort of neurodivergence, including ADHD: czcams.com/video/jMO_MidIVKQ/video.html
Christine,
Thank you very much for your very quick response to my question 🙏
If I can ask another question: have you ever taken medication (Adderall) for ADHD? which medication would increase, if I understood correctly, the level of dopamine which is deficient in ADHD.
I have read information that this medication can help people with ADHD and suffering chronic pain, to relieve their pain.
And some people testify that this medication was downright magical for them, very quickly, particularly in terms of the enormous reduction in their anxiety, and that they greatly regretted not having been diagnosed and treated with this medication more early, because their life has been very difficult before!
Women are often diagnosed much later and once adults (I'm 63 years) than men, because they internalize their discomfort.
But it seems that you don't really like medications...
I saw with a big interest the video you gave me the link to, and for that too I thank you.
You are an angel ♥️
@@zatmenat Hello, I only tried Adderall once. It upset my stomach badly and I didn't feel it was worth taking it again.
Adderall is a stimulant, so in some people can also worsen anxiety.
Studying these mind-body techniques has helped reduce some of my ADHD and ASD symptoms. Although ADHD and ASD are likely present since birth, some symptoms are also made worse by our thinking styles, and avoidance behaviors (just like chronic pain or other chronic symptoms). ADHD and ASD aren't going to go away, but my symptoms are diminished by applying these same mind-body techniques to them.
Hi Christine,
Thank again for your feedback that makes a lot of sense for me.
I think I am going to stop now my investigations about ADHD and the project to take Adderall.
I finally don’t want to add another pill and its sides effects in my body !
I think you are totally right, and then you have experience, the work on TMS will surely helps me too with my anxiety, my self critical thoughts, or avoidance of some situations.
And now that i know the problems i had in my life are surely consequences of ADHD, i feel more in peace with myself, because it is not my fault, and i can better accept my temperament, its failures, but also its strengh traits.
@@zatmenat I'd love to hear future updates about your progress.
Is (pre) menopauze TMS/PDP?
Hello, I'm so glad you asked this question, and it's a great topic for future videos.
Even though menstruation and eventual menopause involve hormonal changes, my opinion is that most of the symptoms we associate with them are TMS.
There are some fascinating studies that show "PMS" didn't exist in many cultures until women were introduced to the concept.
When you consider all the social, physical, and life changes that accompany the years of perimenopause, it's clear to me that at least some of the symptoms are TMS. At the least, TMS is aggravating something that should be a relatively symptoms free phenomenon.
Thanks for being here, and I def. will address this in future videos.
🙏🏽 thank you so much for the answer. Looking forward to your videos about this topic🙏🏽❤
Dr sarno said that your brain is working perfectly, creating pain to distract you from repressed emotions. Are you saying this is incorrect? Also that it is mild oxygen deprivation and therefore it is in your body
Hello, You and Dr. Sarno are correct. The brain is working as it should. It's doing what it's meant to do, which is to keep you safe and keep you alive.
The trouble happens when the safety mechanism (fight or flight) gets too activated. New neural pathways are eventually created which put the brain-pain loop on autopilot (think of that old phrase, "neurons that fire together wire together"). One of the physiological changes that happens as the result is mild oxygen deprivation. Blood vessels are controlled by fight or flight mechanism.
Dr. Sarno taught that it's unexpressed/repressed emotions that are triggering the perceived fear. That certainly can be true, but in the recent years, scientists have expanded the thought to include more than only the emotions.
Thanks for your question, and thanks for being here.
@@drchristinebradstreet just watched the video again. Contradictions
Why you dont reply on instagram ?
Hi, I'm not active on IG right now.
@@drchristinebradstreet where can i contact you ?
@@drchristinebradstreet where i can contact you ?