YES!
Lately I have been doing more and more physically. I get more symptoms. The funny thing is, they are only lasting a day or two. I think my brain simply adjusts to the new expectations and the symptoms ease up. I might lay low for a day or two - still exercising but not doing anything super aggravating, sort of the normal thing one might do when they've felt they over did it at the gym - a little less intensity for a day or two, and then get back to that increased intensity. I have noticed this really working for me, and it's breaking conditioned responses.
I refuse to be in fear or frustration when the symptoms increase. Instead I rejoice in my ability to have actually done the things that make them increase and my ability to just keep moving on and not worry about this increase. I'm just teaching my brain that it's all OK, and fine because there is nothing wrong. It might try and prove to me there IS something wrong, but I am disproving it.
However, at the same time I am moving and doing more, I do the TMS work and recognize how my thoughts, emotions, (and subconcious emotions) are the genesis of the TMS, not the actual exercise.
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