Jim, I love how you don't encourage pacing. Instead you implore us to keep going, keep moving.

I've had this problems since I was a child...it is a hard cycle to break even with the knowledge I have gained over the years and listening and being a part of this channel. When one issue is worked out another pops up...this horrible cycle of hypervigilance awareness is what I've dealt with most of my adult life. It is mentally exhausting and trying to turn this need to know what is happening with different body noises off is difficult! This forum helps remind me what is really happening (mentally)

@jeannes.356

Жыл бұрын

Me too! One thing that has helped me in the past, is getting to the point where I truly am ok with it going either way. I don’t care anymore. I’m not going to try to control it anymore.

Thanks, Jim. I have pppd, made worse after 2 non-related recent brain surgeries. My dizziness is very intense all the time. But movement, poor sleep, stress and sodium increases it. I understand the loop of dizziness and anxiety. I try to do my head exercises when I’m not in a high stress mode. Thank you for your calm demeanor and insightful videos.

I find that 25mg Endep at night this reduces my pain and Anxiety around 50% it helps with the perception of pain alot. I do believe this fellow Jim is right on the money about why chronic pain persists for years sometimes decades i have tried many TMS approaches in recent years with some success for short periods. The problem is Chronic pain is such a overwhelming powerful emotional experience its very difficult to remain indifferent about the symptoms..

Hey Jim just wanted to reach out 100% I’m in that hyper alert and hyper vigilance I’ve been trying my best to CALM my nervous system but man it’s difficult sometimes 😅 If a horn honks or anything similar I immediately get jumpy and edgy

@kaypendergast5676

11 ай бұрын

So do I - ...

@tanyawieczorek6603

8 ай бұрын

Did you figure how to do it? I'm in a bad POTS flare up due to being startled by a very loud noise 😮

I love all your videos you are a true master in this field. Severely times your voice alone has helped me out of back pain that in the past not even a trip to the hospital could fix. Thanks you!

Super helpful. Somatic tracking i.e. mindfulness or "open awareness" can so easily slip into the same old problem habits of hypervigilance and all the BS that leads to. The difference I guess is then former involves just not giving a sh^t. Simple but not easy and so these insights are very useful. PS I also benefit from good ol' CBT to just deal with the "behaviors" (habit of scanning the body; googling symptoms etc.). It may not solve MBS but can help keep away from the "tipping point" for getting into a terrible rough patch of symptoms and amplifying them.

Thank you for another informative video. This is exactly where I am stuck. I know this is TMS, but my brain keeps seeing it as a huge threat. Trying to work on reducing hypervigilance.

I love your content and I appreciate all that you do. This work is still so darn hard for me because things just dont make sense. All of my symptoms came to me post vaccine and I am like the same broken record story as everyone else that has gone to every possible doctor, have tried every type of specialty, countless tests and scans and nothing shows wrong with me, yet I feel like death everyday. I find it so hard to wrap my head around that. Am i nervous , Yes! Am i scared, Yes! but who wouldnt be with 3 years of random unexplainable chronic pain symptoms. I just want to wake up from this nightmare one day. I have been following you, the steady coach, Raegen, Nicole Sachs, Dan Buglio and everything makes sense but nothing is resolving itself.

@annemarieedwards68

11 ай бұрын

My pain also came on post vaccine. I have been working hard nutritionally to try to clear my body of any spike proteins. I find a strict anti inflammatory diet and anti inflammatory supplements to be helpful. This may help along with the mind work. God bless.

@sergiogomez6

11 ай бұрын

@@annemarieedwards68 I appreciate that , 3 years in and I knew about what you just mentioned but have not tried it yet with full effort and intentions, I think I’m going to have to for sure.

@kaylabryson1932

11 ай бұрын

@@sergiogomez6my son uses anti histamine supplements with meals. Really helped him.

@pattyboucetta1897

4 ай бұрын

Never get any vaccine ever!

Fear yes! Ik sta altijd op alert. Dit kan ik nu herkennen en reguleren. Duizen maal dank dank dank

IMO Hyper-vigilance relates to monitoring of the external environment for potential threats. Hyperawareness might be more appropriate for discussing placing attention and importance on internal sensations and symptoms.

We are spreading the word.....this is gold

Thank you .

Amazing talk!!!

Really great information!

This helped a lot. Thank you

Heartburn/throat symptoms globus etc -.your videos are helping. Thank you

This is fascinating. I was born hypervigilant as I was thrust into the world 3 months early because of a major car accident that totaled our car. (It didn't help that my father was a union leader, and I had death threats in the cradle and bomb threat phone calls regularly.) At 2, we kids were taught to defend ourselves from kidnappers. You develop an awareness of everything around you - "eyes in the back of your head" - when there are potential actual threats. But I was never taught to let that go. Later bullying added to that - until my mother taught me to fight back. That let me know I could take action to protect myself calmly - but all the previous trauma got trapped in the body, and the habit of hypervigilance even after I'd clocked my bullies and was safe. (Bullies are such cowards.) The body is surprisingly resilient, and it took 12 major stressors for me to develop MEFM - and I now see how though I fully expected to get well, my brain was in the habit of misconceiving minor issues as "Danger" even when I wasn't aware of that. Facing the emotions and fears hidden in the body repressed at the time are key. Thank you, these are SO helpful in calming tension and getting to the root of the pain. Do you think someone with lifelong hypervigilance can heal fully?

@tanyawieczorek6603

8 ай бұрын

Did you ever figure this out? How are you doing now?

@thedancingdivaofdaviestree2320

8 ай бұрын

@@tanyawieczorek6603 I am very active for someone with MEFM - I write, perform, exercise and socialize but I still have a lot of pain and fatigue. I'm quite sure a large part of that of that is due to neuroplasticity, as I had 6 years completely free of chronic fatigue symptoms with minimal pain. Bliss! But 4 years of major and inescapable stress brought it back. But this time I know there's nothing to fear and am finding ways to teach my crocodile brain that! I do somatic tracking, Chi Gong, and trauma release exercises regularly. When the stress finally lessens, I think I will heal once more. (Am thinking of trying neurofeedback to help rewire my brain.)

Thank you so much 🙏

This is so helpful. Bless you for sharing this wisdom.

Hi Jim, I really enjoy your videos. I am trying to use all your techniques to move out of my chronic upper back pain following my neck surgeries.

I’m binging in your videos today. ✌️

Good video 👍of many on your channel I noticed . Subscribed

you are amazing. Experienced with applied knowledge

I’ve tried different programs , had a coach through Dr Schubiner’s program…. The coach just wasn’t on your level ! It DID NOT help me , you sir resonate with me ! You definitely make me a believer that I can HEAL !

Thank you Jim, this explanation is amazing. I love that you use studies to back up your perspective as well. Could you talk more about strategies to reduce the perceived threat of the symptoms? I struggle with constantly searching for fixes to my pain; scouring research papers and forums, trying different specialists and treatments. It’s exhausting and it’s been 3 years now without resolving my symptoms which makes me feel hopeless. I know these behaviors are increasing fear but I struggle to stop because it feels like the doctors don’t have answers (for in my case pain with digestion aka “IBS”) and so I need to find them myself. How can I start to fully embrace that I am OK and stop trying to “fix”?

That’s me!!

@thesheepman220

Жыл бұрын

Lol 😂not at you of course but your truthful answer take care

💔💔💔that’s my life everyday scanning my body, I don’t know Hove to stop

Still got long term pain osteoarthritis etc . Whould do anything to be free of pain thank u Jim regards uk 🇬🇧

I love watching crime! Not sure why I love love it so much lol but I do. I’ve noticed everytime I watch it I get headaches 😢

Do you have any videos that we can watch with practicing mindwork to help gut issues bloating distension pain and abdomen tightness and food sensitivity I have severe issues with bloat and pain inflammation into my ribs and distension and radiating pain it’s chronic and caused me to be homebound bedridden along with gastritis I can’t calm any if this it has crippled me and I’m looking to come out if this with my mind is there any practices on video you have for this thank you

Dear Jim, can you help me with this question please? I’ve been having chronic dizziness / feeling of being unstable 24/7 the past couple of weeks. I am Already familiar with lots of symptoms that are probably TMS (fibromyalgia, insomnia, fatigue and so on) First I thought it was because of a few nights in which I couldn’t sleep well. Then I thought it could be because of my neck and shoulders that have been more tense than usual. But now I’ve had a few ‘good’ nights of sleep and my shoulders don’t hurt, but I have still a lot of dizziness. It’s making me desperate and anxious because I can’t function like this. It feels like you’re going to fall over all the time. I just went out for a walk and it was so bad I started crying out of fear and frustration. Even my right ear started ringing as if I was going to faint. Do you recognize these as TMS symptoms? And how can I deal with it? I already use your meditations a lot. Thank you

I’m a sufferer of migraines and sometimes I noticed if I start to eat something and moving my mouth around that the pain sometimes goes away and then comes back when I stop eating I believe this it was disrupts the signal temporarily

So what are you or did you withdraw, and what were your symptoms.

How to you stop hypervegilinxe to things like noise and lights and sounds, do we keep reinforcing that these stimulus is not dangerous

What would you say about Peyronie’s disease? Some people never have pain but a lot do. I know Dr Shubiner states that scar tissue doesn’t cause pain.

Hi, I’m wondering what your take is on a brain injury that is technically still present? I have had a brain decompression two years ago but I am left with a syrinx in my spinal cord that affects my limbs etc. do you think this work could still be effective for me? I’ve seen a lot of talk in this community about using this work when you are clear of any true illness/injury. But what about using it in tandem with physical therapies? Surely it can only be helpful to bring the brain into a place of safety even when the body and brain have been severely affected. Would love to hear your thoughts. Thank you for these videos!!!

What daily practices should we be doing?

Can your methods work for reflux and gastritis / ibs?

What types of symptoms are thought of sub-acute symptoms?

Could intense chronic fatigue be caused by hypervigilance as well?

@stalfosguardian5573

Жыл бұрын

Yes!

@thepainpt

Жыл бұрын

Yes

what is BS when referenced with TMS?

I’m confused about the difference between distracting oneself from watching symptoms and sitting and allowing them. They seem to be contradicting thoughts.

I wish we would eliminate the word 'anxiety' completely, as it seems to be a catch-all for 'i have no idea what's going on with me and I don't like it!!!'. Seth Porges (Stephen's son) describes in a way that resonates with me post-concussion (and this is my rewording) as an over-stimulated nervous system - ie in fight-flight-freeze-fawn all the time without awareness that that is what it is so we can just call it 'anxiety' instead. And the way you're using the word in this video seems to be completely interchangeable with the word fear. Eliminating the word requires us to go inside and get clearer about what is happening in our brain, body and mind, imo.

Can that also be the cause if burning pain in feet and legs and tinnitus?

@idragonfly

Жыл бұрын

Would like to know Jim's opinion on this as well -- except for me, add on hyperacusis to go along with the tinnitus.

@Moonless6491

Жыл бұрын

I have pain that presents as pelvic/urinary pain and when it flares, my feet and legs burn too. Yes, absolutely it can be. Tinnitus as well.

@thepainpt

Жыл бұрын

Yea can be a contributing factor sometimes a big one if you are prone to hypervigilance. Any symptom can be escalated through hypervigilance and especially mind body ones like people are mentioning here

@thesheepman220

Жыл бұрын

@@idragonflytinnitus yes I have it people think it’s a ear problem but it’s the message too the brain gets interrupted so I’m told

@marthacupac4467

11 ай бұрын

@@Moonless6491 i get this too and the burning will continue through brain and entire body