rsi to back pain

Hi,

I've been steadily improving with my symptoms (rsi, neck, shoulders etc...!)

I have had some lower back pain but not much. I fee like i'm about 70 percent better, I've read Sarnos books and I'm 2 weeks from completing the presence process.

This week though I've started getting agonising pain in my lower back. My intuition is it's part of the process my meditation is digging up more emotions to deal with hence the increased pain in a different area? It's hard to not be alarmed by it. As getting up is now difficult. I think the emotion for me to deal with hear is fear/terror....

has any one else here had a simliar situation?

many thanks,
Matt
P.S
I've been blogging about my experiences .. I will post here when I'm a bit better!

 

thanks forest. Yeah I think when you know for a fact it's psychological it takes away the panic/fear. My blog is here: www.curersi.com I'm going to amend it as I go along, I kinda wanted to wait until I was about 90 percent better before getting evangelical about it! but I think there's some useful stuff on there.

 

Hi Jan,

Yeah for me I had to understand how your Myofascia network tightens and tenses and restricts blood flow and how that's related to your autonomic nervous system/ stresses. It wasn't enough for me to think that it's just a lack of oxygen to your muscles... I think my mind is quite technical and I was always going to need more details for this kinda work to give me results. However the tissue has muscle memory and will always go back to it's tense state unless those psychological issues are resolved. When I first read Sarno's books I could intellectualise it, however it didn't benefit me, I struggled to put it into practice it was only when taking on a job that allowed me to relax that I realised the relation between stress and the physical...

The presence process has been very interesting for me. I still have a couple of weeks to go and I plan to continue the meditation for another 6 months at least. I will blog more about it. It's interesting how it puts all those emotions right in front of you. It starts to become clear that you are not depressed, anxious angry you just FEEL it. (hard to accept.. I struggle with this)
The meditation seems to put these feelings right in front of you. I think it makes the unconcious more concious. I think anyway!!!!! I have a long way to go yet My emotions that have come up appear to have done so in layers It started with fear and sadness, then anxiety, then anger. I noticed I couldn't go near my computer without this intense frustration/rage! I tried to be more expressive of this.. deal with things as they appear. I think there's probably lots more that I have not integrated yet to come. How much? I have no idea!


My life situation is quite challenging at the moment as I have been made redundant. I think the flare up in my back is related to that. The fear/anxiety of not being able to pay my rent. losing confidence etc....

thanks,
Matt

 

I've just re-read my blog and I'm thinking my issues are not resolved 100% due to not committing 100 percent to the tms theory. So I'm doing that now 100 percent psychological not physical!

 

thanks Forest. Well done for putting this forum together too. Sites like this and youtube have been more helpful then the actual books themselves for me.

 

since making this post my back pain had completely gone... it's since come back again with a vengeance! but it doesn't scare me... Is it likely that once getting almost better the brain makes one last play before it's beaten?

I think by submitting to the TMS theory people including myself probably feel like there admitting there's nothing wrong with them... which doesn't sit right..

I guess there physically isn't anything wrong... Just some thing on the emotional side of things has gone a bit wonky!

 

I had the opposite happen. In fact, its happening right now.
Several months of severe back pain, and it has virtually gone from my body - Only to be taken over with hands falling asleep at night, pain in hands and arms, difficulty typing at work, etc etc.
Its really tough for me to come back around and apply the same TMS techniques to this, because its less of a pain and more of a disability. I'm working on it... but its like I have to start all over again.
I certainly don't miss my back pain - but this sucks!

 

The symptom imperative is definitely lousy! My physical TMS spot is upper body. The lower body will get involved from time to time and I can generally blow them off, but the absolute worst for me is when the physical issues are accompanied with anxiety and/or depression. It happens and it can definitely feel like starting all over again. I remind myself that the feeling that I'm "starting all over again" is thanks to my perfectionist. Certainly "perfect Leslie" wants "once and done". Did it all, step by step, exactly the way I was told so the outcome would be "perfect", symptoms banished FOREVER. Nope, what I want to banish forever is "perfect Leslie". The "imperfect" accepting Leslie is much less "stressful" to have around. When symptoms show up or move around it's important to remember that we're never starting over, we've already got the tools, our task at hand is to identify "who" is in the driver's seat and replace that driver with the one who actually takes us where we want to go.