Setback today - is it possible it’s still just TMS/another muscle twist/strain?

You can say the word “symptoms”— you just shouldn't fixate on your symptoms. Your goal is to not care about symptoms and not give them any significance. Then your TMS brain will turn them off. (If you haven’t read The MindBody Prescription by John Sarno, get it and read it all the way through several times. Then, keep reading parts of it a little every day.) Dr. Sarno explains what symptoms are. They are a distraction your brain creates to avoid your emotions.

 

My suggestion: don’t write about a habit or what really is a purposeful distraction you already know you do and why you do it. You don’t need to! There are many things: habits, behaviors, thought cycles that you can just lightly observe and note how they have a similar function of distraction. Notice how you feel while doing these things and note if they really help or just keep you in cycles. Some distractions are helpful some aren’t… or are only in certain situations. Once you notice them, you can choose to engage or not.
Symptom talk and discussing the physical is a distraction from your internal emotional world that keeps you stuck there.