endlessing reading about TMS

I'm just curious if I'm the only one using endless fascination and reading about TMS as an excuse not to actually do the work:/.....

 

Are you not seeing yourself in the stories and pages? When you are reading about the causes and mechanisms, aren't you noticing stuff in your moment to moment life that resonates with the information?

If you keep reading and reading it is eventually gonna provoke some kind of interior energy and stuffs gonna start to change whether you know it or not...I have found that when I have read about a few different topics. Not just TMS.

Remember: when Sarno wrote those? There was no 'work'...that evolved out of people like us reading it , discovering the contradictions between our outside 'adult' life and inside 'childlike, selfish and vain' life.

Just keep reading. Somethings gonna shake loose.

 

Funny enough, I'm on Day 27 of the program which links to Relapser's curse - there is hope, by Skizzik.. I feel like he describes exactly what I am talking about; the endless reading about TMS, reviewing everyone else's progress in this program while feeling stuck yourself. What I meant by obsessing over the process rather then actually going through the process. I do believe trying too hard is its own trap. And reading is it's own form of TMS.

 

This is true! Things do shake loose. Doing the reading is helping!

 

I think ultimately, yeah, you gotta face yourself. Your issues. Your anger. Your personality. But you can do it slowly. I think reading a lot sort of gets the ball rolling. It’s what I did too!

 

this is EXACTLY what I mean- like instead of actually beginning the meditation practice, I just read all about it lol.

 

LOL..then I am constantly suffering from TMS. Baseball, Reading , guitar and Dog is my whole life...very narrow horizons and reading is a huge part of it....hours a day, every day.

I read about guitars I am never gonna buy...I read about historical places I don't have money to visit..Dogs I couldn't own....BUT with TMS I am carrying the 'topic' around with me wherever I go. A Lot of the stuff didn't make sense to me the first time or even the tenth time...some of it has only dawned on me now after 25 years of doing this crap....but I got better without 'understanding' every single detail.

after reading your post, I had a thought to share.. Whenever I have a relapse? I know its over the first morning when I get up and reading isn't the very first thing I do....it's not that I dodge it. I just forget because I am back to 'normal' and pain free is normal.

But, I have immense faith in the process....and you're 'doing it' right...so just keep on keeping on.

 

and I don't meditate very often...and I got rid of TMS. I am a twitchy high strung type and could probably benefit from Meditation...I have enjoyed it the few times I have done it...but I haven't and it's a 'new' add on...Sarno spoke of relaxation techniques , but said also 'to what end'?

this is about anger and it's repression and conditioning.

The meditation I tried during my last relapse was on youtube...it's about thanking the pain, but sending it packing...the guided ones are easier for me to approach.

 

This whole concept of “avoiding the work” is interesting. What is “The Work,” exactly? It depends, right? If it’s the hardest thing, then for me, that’s therapy or journaling. But then again, it’s work to avoid my seeming “addiction” to abusive friends and family. (The wiki and journaling revealed this was one of my problems.) It’s also work to just be nice to myself. Sad. But true. Reading about TMS is probably easier than most things. But it has had the most impact for me because it gives me hope, education and things to try. It’s all work and it’s all important! But living with TMS on a daily basis is terrible work, and a job I want to give up soon! Nichole Sachs, a therapist who healed from TMS and author of a journaling concept called JournalSpeak, said living life comes down to 2 choices: what’s hard and what’s harder. It’s hard to journal. But it’s harder to live with TMS.