When you start down the path of allowing and feeling emotions in order to let your body release tension and pain, you might feel very optimistic. You can see how this could work. You’re excited to try it. However, the mind always pictures the healing process as a linear, improve day-by-day experience. When the actual healing process sets in, the mind usually wigs out, not understanding or liking what’s happening.
The thing is, when you apply concepts from Sarno, Mate, or other well-known mind-body experts, you aren’t actually experiencing a true physical healing. Healing TMS, or Mind-Body Syndrome, is not the same as a cut on your skin that heals bit by bit each day.
Instead, what you are experiencing is a healing within your mind-body system.
It’s a healing from the inside out, of the inner child, your connection to your soul, your relationship with your emotions, and so much more. Because of this, the healing process is highly erratic. One day you may feel lots of pain or symptoms, and the next you might be pain-free. That might last for a week. Then, you might have a couple weeks of mild symptoms. After that it might be a couple days of lots of symptoms, then nothing again.
I like to think of it as a learning rather than a healing, because that’s more accurate. What you are doing is teaching your mind a new way of being, and that means fits and starts, back and forth, successes and failures – just like when you learn anything new.
When I was learning the violin, there were times when I’d play something amazingly well for a week and then for several weeks suddenly sound like I’d regressed two years. This is the pain of the learning process.
The key to surviving the agony of learning your way to health via mind-body tools is this: Count your successes! I’m going to tell you what they are right now, because you may be accidentally putting them in the failure column.
Three Signs You are Healing (Learning!) and on the Right Track! (In other words, pain relief is going to happen to you, inevitably!)
I’m in the midst of training a group mind-body coaches right now. I’ve watched the participants experience these very things, and I’ve told them these very words I’m telling you. They’ve been using the tools for several months now, and have learned so much. This week, I just started getting reports in from many of them celebrating the lessening or cessation of physical symptoms. Voila! Just like that, eventually, your mind learns to let the pain go.
The hardest part of mind-body healing is this seemingly backward concept: The healing starts within and slowly works its way out to the body symptoms themselves.
Healing first takes place within your psyche and your relationship with your own mind, emotions, and soul.
Focus on the improvements you’re noticing in those realms, because you can trust that the freer you feel within yourself, the closer you are to a healthy, active body. You can do it.
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