A dor crónica

 "Remember that your nervous system has already decided (whithout seeing your counsel or permission) that your repressed emotional world is a predator capable of eating you alive. I use hyperbolic language here deliberately. Tha stakes perceived by your most primitive systems are not light! Knowing this makes it easier to gather the strength to fight any reflexive resistance that might arise. When your are battling chronic conditions of any kind, your emotional reservoir has reached maximum density and is spilling over, flooding your mind and body with rage, shame, terror, grief and anything else that has been longe unattended. The result is a switch that flips inside you, keeping you chronically in fight or flight. Mindbody work hás the power to lower the reservoir, allowing for rest and repair. The body naturally seems healing, but this overflowing reservoir is blocking this organic process.

Lets talk about out grumpy and scared little friend, resistance. (...), resistance will whisper to you on your own voice. It is cunning - and it knows exactly how to manipulate you. It will provide you with excuses to avoid the work. It might manifest as exhaustion or impatience - trying to convince you that you lack the strength or time to continue. It may come to you as symptoms, sidelining you on an attempt to war you that you're on danger. It Often embodies a compelling inner voice, parroting all the people (including the experts) who have toldo you that your conditions is 'intractable' or 'incurable'. What a huge pain in the back!

Often, in this journey, once the nervous system has began to recalibrate and the original symptom goes way, the unconscious fear will rise (after all, it's been your bedfellow for a long while) and send another completely 'unrealeted' symptom in place. Do not allow this to deter you or spike your resistance. It's totally normal. TMS (tension myoneural syndrome) comes from one place and there is only one solution: lower your emotional reservoir to regulate the nervous system.

(...) one last form of resistance: needing to get better on a timeline. If it took you five years, twelve years, twenty-two years to walk into the woods, you are not going to walk out in a couple months. When you are frustaded with anything, it's because you want it to come Faster and more easily. Unfortunately, this kind of frustation makes you more vulnerable to giving up altogether. Só let's expose this natural pitfall here and now: this is going to take as longe as it takes.

Always remember that the most important message to send to a dysregulated nervous system is One of safety and calm as you do the work to restore order. Urgency carries the opposite message. Think about it this way: desire to be different than you are at the moment is translated by your nervous system into the feeling of fear. When you 'need' to change to be 'okay', it comes with a wave of panic. This is because we are inherently adware that change is not something that can be forced.

Urgency can be the perfect storm for frustation and resistance, but also só much more stress (rage, grief, despair, shame, terror) into emotional reservoir. Whereas urgency communicates fear, acceptance relays a message of safety.

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Acceptance should feel like a long exhale, a release of that tight grip or your outcomes. Keep in mind that acceptance does not equal agreement. You don't have to like what's happening. You just need to accept it.

(...) You now understand the process by wich your protective and well-intentional human brain creates physical pain to divert you from emotional injury."

Nicole Sachs

"Lembre-se que o seu sistema nervoso já decidiu (sem pedir o seu conselho ou permissão) que o seu mundo emocional reprimido é um predador capaz de o comer vivo.  Eu uso aqui uma linguagem hiperbólica deliberadamente.  As apostas percebidas pelos seus sistemas mais primitivos não são leves!  Saber isto torna mais fácil reunir forças para combater qualquer resistência reflexiva que possa surgir.  Quando está a lutar contra condições crónicas de qualquer tipo, o seu reservatório emocional atingiu a densidade máxima e está a transbordar, inundando a sua mente e o seu corpo com raiva, vergonha, terror, tristeza e qualquer outra coisa que tenha sido negligenciada durante muito tempo.  O resultado é um interruptor que gira dentro de si, mantendo-o cronicamente em luta ou fuga.  O trabalho mente-corpo tem o poder de baixar o reservatório, permitindo o descanso e a reparação.  O corpo parece naturalmente curado, mas este reservatório transbordante está a bloquear este processo orgânico.

Vamos falar da nossa amiguinha rabugenta e assustada: a resistência. (...), a resistência sussurrar-lhe-á na sua própria voz. É astuta e sabe exatamente como o manipular. Isso dar-lhe-á desculpas para evitar o trabalho. Pode manifestar-se como exaustão ou impaciência, tentando convencê-lo de que lhe falta força ou tempo para continuar. Pode aparecer sob a forma de sintomas, afastando-o na tentativa de o avisar de que está em perigo. Muitas vezes, ela incorpora uma voz interior convincente, repetindo todas as pessoas (incluindo os especialistas) que lhe disseram que a sua condição é "intratável" ou "incurável". Que dor enorme nas costas!"

A dor

 "The reason anyone suffers in any and every capacity is that pain signals are being fired by the brain and nervous system, landing in diferent body systems and muscles groups.(...)

(...) Why? Why are they being initiated?

This is where the amygdala comes in. (...) this smal, almond-shaped area of your brain is part of the limbic system, the neural network that is responsable for emotional processing. The amigdala is one of the most primitive brain structures. It has existed in humam beings (not to mention all mammals) since the beginning. It may be a tiny structure, but it is mighty. This is the spot where the fight-or-flight response, our automatic physiological reaction to stressful or frightening stimuli, originates.

What does that have to do with your pain? (...) Pain's number one objective is to protect you. pain is the menseger, alerting you that it's time to attend to your body to avert a disastrous end.

Nicole Sachs

A percepção de si.

 O nosso organismo está constantemente a recolher, interpretar, a comparar com a memória das experiências anteriores e a construir um modelo interno, subjectivo do que existe ao nosso redor no mundo com o seu sistema nervoso.

"The organism is actively, subjectively, interpreting this information, bringing its prior experience and expectations to bear. Indeed, it also brings the prior experience of all its ancestors to bear through the evolutionary selected genetic preconfiguration of these systems in a way that is adapted to the regulariteis of the organis's enviorenment.

I move, therefore I am.

There is one final, importante implication of this predictive, interpretative, inferential view of perception (of the nervous system). The goal of all this perceptual work is to build up an internal model of what is out in the world - especialy to track waht is moving, how fast and in wich directions - so the organism can anticipate things and not just react to them.

(...) In a world filled with other creatures, knowing wich ones you can eat or mate with or should avoid makes the difference between life and death. That is why memory systems are a really good investement, enabling an organism to retain knowledge of the past to inform current action. At the same time, the long-range nature of vision and hearing - literally, the ability to see something coming from a mile away - also made a new cognitive activity worthwhile: planning. The knowledge of distant threats and opportunities could inform the choice of longer-term goals and multistep strategies to achieve them. Action selection moved from very immediate responses to localstimuli to planning over much longer timescales. As with the evolution of perception, this capability relied on additional levels of internal processing, which were decoupled from the immediacies of the environment. The imagined future thus also came to crucially inform decision making as much as the remembered past. The organisms that evolved these capabilities no longer just inhabited the here and now."

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Kevin Mitchell