When your body says, “no,” for you

I read this success story today, and it was great!

I related to it because the woman telling the story used to be a journalist and it was so much pressure for her that she got RSI as a TMS symptom. It forced her to quit working and sent her on her TMS discovery journey. (That also happened to me.)

This line, in particular, really hit home for me:

“I was absolutely terrified of the future, of failure, of not knowing what to do with my life or how to do it. I realised if the RSI went away I would have to decide what to do next, and the thought of that was terrifying.”

Even though I was on the brink of retirement age when this round of TMS hit, I never had any intention of retiring at all— mostly because I get self-esteem from working and also just out of sheer terror that I won’t have enough money.

Just like the lady in this story, I had to stop everything because of my RSI and other symptoms. My body made me stop.

I’m still on the journey, and the discoveries I make every day are incredible. My new future is, in fact, unfolding. Can anybody else relate to this story?

 

I could relate to not wanting to retire, especially a few years ago. I felt my work made me look good to the outside, and of course a sense of financial security. Then gradually I feel that using work and earning to define a human's worth is probably the conditioning the ruling class has been using for thousands of years. So the fear one feels without a socially acceptable "work" may be deeply wired into our brains.

Yes a lot of us are afraid of running out of money, especially when we hear about these expensive medical bills at old ages.

That reminds me of an engineer I worked with. He would retire in a few months and was in his mid 50s. A single guy who liked to walk for miles. I asked him how much he would need for early retirement. He said as long as his expenses were lower than his passive income and he watched his expenses quite meticulously. Then I asked him what insurance he would use since he had no Medicare. He looked at me and calmly said none. He said he didn't go to the docs and took care of his own health. He said he was really sick as a young child and figured by then the Healthcare systems didn't do anything to fix it. I was shocked, and asked him if he knew of the FIRE movement and Dr. Sarno. He said no. So he kind of figured out the way of living in a degree of liberty in today's world by himself...

Dr. Sarno never said not going to the doctors. His methods would help people minimize the chance of being entangled in the costly and often ineffective Healthcare systems in the US these days.