Jim, Ive had a year of chronic fatigue, thank goodness I was recommended your videos. Childhood trauma, a stressful work life, bereavement. All came to a head, your guidance, advice and kindness have helped me come out the other side. I will always be aware of what you have taught me. You don't know me, in the UK, but I'm so grateful to you x

This is a great top tier video of yours. Thus really sums up THE ENTIRE PROBLEM. Now trying to break down these points into bite size chunks in my life... I see every one of these points playing out in my life. You are a master of understanding the chronic illness mechanism.

This was so helpful for me. Thank you! I added three things personal to myself. 1) Being OK with having this TMS condition, 2) Being OK that I get resentful that I have it (self compassion) and 3) Being OK that deep down sometimes I seem to take satisfaction in being a “victim” of this. Crazy, huh? But the way you put this helped me see some things clearer & be OK with whatever is going on with me in the moment, no matter how embarrassing it might be to admit. Just sharing in case others ever felt like this.

My back went out last week, I ve been spending it in pain with a very minimal amount of movements, although I read John Sarno years ago and was sure it was emotional, and did my best to ignore and focus on the real emotional pain, I was not ok in feeling the pain, felt dread instead and did not realise it was making it worst! Listening to this video was a real awakening! I live offgrid and needed to cut wood for the fire so I followed what you said and felt, accepted the pain and kept awareness on the physical pain and whatever was coming with it, soon enough I became emotional but i did not overreact, old painful memories popped up and I allowed them to come and pass. Well, I ve cut 2 wheelbarrows full of wood and the pain is totally gone! Thanks for those precious videos!🙏🙏🙏⚘

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I’m on this journey and I fight at being angry at the flare ups. My window of tolerance is a porthole lol. I’m not there yet. 🙈. Thanks for the encouragement.

Jim:: I LOVE YOU VIDEOS : ) I started watching them awhile ago, but haven’t commented ~ now I want to ! You do such an amazing job presenting the content & knowledge that you want us to practice. THANK YOU 🙏 😊

Thank you for your peaceful recommendations. This is a life time of inner work.

Thank you for taking the time to make these videos. I'm seeing how important it is to be clear it is not a disease or structural issue. That's where I'm uncertain.

I have depression, anxiety and chronic dizziness and I watch this video every day. Thanks for sharing 🙏

Hi Jim, I really enjoy your videos, you're so good at clearly explaining what's going on in our nervous systems and bodies. The somatic and emotional tracking exercises are particularly helpful, and I go back to them regularly. I have a request, would you be able to compile a playlist of all the videos that can be used as a practice (brain training/meditation/somatic tracking exercise), so we can incorporate them into our daily lives more easily? There are probably exercises that I'm overlooking because I can't see from the title if they're an exercise or an educational video (which are also great, by the way). Thanks for doing what you do!

One of the best channels on the matter on KZfaq.

This is absolutely fantastic Jim .... so good to hear it all together... shedding a few tears and sending gratitude 🙏🏼

Thank you

You are right, I recovered from my concentration issues within 10 days by completely accepting them. But I still have other symptoms which aren't getting better despite what I think is acceptance. You really need to do it in a particular way for it to work, it needs to be a complete paradigm shift as you said, and that is definitely easier said than done. It seems there is a bunch of hope and enthusiasm driving that paradigm shift as well, the problem is that it is hard to keep those feelings going for more than a few weeks.

Brilliant. Being okay with it all, surrender and acceptance. Thanks for this excellent 10 point summary.

This is so helpful! Thank you. I love the word Okay! There's something soothing about that word for me.

❤ This video has been very helpful.. Hoping I can apply them to help me get through this..

Just your voice. You are an Angel to many. Thank you more than I can say.

OK!!!!! Great succinct list, thanks Jim 😊

Thanks Jim! This is so helpful and comforting.

So helpful. Thank you!!💗

Thank you Very helpful.

Thank you for your detailed discussion of the 12 reminders. It helps me understand them better and find more depth in them. I appreciate your help.

Thank you so much for doing this....thank you...💓🙏

Thank you Jim!This is so helpful

This was so helpful- im going to so employ these thank you x

I love your videos.

Fascinating and amazing!! Thanks so much, Jim. This is simply mind blowing!!

Excellent. Especially 9 and 10. Thank you. Be OK! 😊

Love it, thank you so much. It's Life changing!

This one is excellent.

Great tips!

❤❤❤❤ 🙏🏽 than you.

Brilliant video

Champion video message Jim 🏆💪🏼☝🏼

Really great video. Thank you!

This is life changing information!!

Many thanks ! You have covered most, if not all, situations that may not serve us well..Very useful

Awesome video 👍

This is fantastic, Jim. Thanks so much. I feel I've already started well in going along the track of these things which you spoke of, and your video is a great encouragement. I find the clarity and practical nature of all your videos very powerful. I really don't enjoy somatic tracking. Do you think that following these 10 guidelines will be effective in eventually eliminating chronic pain without also doing somatic tracking?

Thank you, this is very helpful. Im recovering my ability to walk unaided, and this helps with the 'snakes and ladders' part of the game!

Thank you. I’m having a TMS flare up and your videos have helped me tremendously. I’m so grateful.

I had an okay time watching this. And im also okay with how many okays one can put in a video 😆 🤣 😂 Serious note , good stuff.

I wish it were so. But i was in a situation where a large amount of anger and hatred was continually generated. I accepted these feelings as being okay, which lead me to act on them, which further strengthened and worsened the symptoms.

Thank you so much for this content and also for the increased volume!

i have heart anxiety, and 5 is being the worst! but im going slowly

That’s a lot though. I think I can be ok with the hurt I feel about things that have happened in the past but I still feel the hurt. It’s not going away just yet. I feel that’s more acceptance than forgiveness. And stepping outside dépression is such a tough one, like believing you can breathe in air when you are drowning. Would you say to aim for these in order or all at the same time? I understand what you say but it seems almost impossible to be ok with all those things. I like the videos very much, I think I just want you to acknowledge that these things are really hard to do.

Great advice. Although "not treating them" maybe has a caveat? I have CPPS and IBS (really i believe the latter is just a subset of the former) and while i accept this is TMS, and try to be willing to tolerate as i work to address the underlying issues, still...meanwhile a hot bath, or some qi gong or a meditation etc etc can certainly help ease the physical symptoms and help calm. I recognize its not a "fix"...but hopefully not unhelpful (??). I guess its a question of if can still be OK without these tools...which i would be, or would try to be. But as i say this im sipping a peppermint tea and the anxiety-induced bloating in my stomach has backed off, y'know? Its like a form of self compassion

So much good stuff in there , "You become okay when you can be okay with what you think is not okay" . So pain relief ok to take sometimes ?

Dear Pain PT, is it okay to place a heat pad under your butt/perineum to ease the severe pain of a flare (in CPPS) or will that too be misconstrued by the brain as an effort on the subject's part to 'fix' something down there? :) I am asking because often such a flare can last for hours and can test a person's endurance, especially if it comes on at the end of the day when one is struggling to stay awake. Btw, this is IMO one of your best presentations to date. It is a crisp yet comprehensive synopsis of the key issues/ bullet points of the Mindbody approach to Neuroplastic pain as pioneered by Dr. Sarno and others.

Seems like you are asking me to walk on water...I mean it's really easy to talk about being fine with all this stuff and TOTALLY another to put these in practice for a long period of time.

Be okay with panicking when I go out ore whatever it is I have to do. It's very scary 😪

Hello Friend, do you happen to upload the audios of these videos to Spotify? If so whatis the channel name? Ty.You do an awesome job :)

How do we find the somatic tracking videos ?

Jim, this is probably more specific to some of the other videos you have made, but I'll go ahead and ask. In your experience with patients, have you ever notice a map of pain symptoms on the body that are mostly associated with certain emotions? For example, thigh related to anger, neck to fear, etc.? If so, I have been wondering what emotions pelvic floor pain and tightness is mostly associated with? I love your videos.

I appreciate the video! One of many symptoms I have is feeling numbness, tingling or itching. Sometimes I'll respond by touching the area and seeing how strong or weak the sensation is or I might scratch the itch. So according to #2 do I need to try to not let myself itch the itch or adjust my clothing? I do this a lot. Especially when I am at work and not wearing clothes as comfortable as I'd like. Thanks!

How do we deal with not focusing on it when the energy is so low and so much pain and housebound , it seems taking all attention perhaps be ok with that too?

So is it not a good idea to do abdominal deep breathing techniques to stimulate the parasympathetic nervous system?

so when is it going to start working

I can't walk or sit due to my nerve pain. I want to believe everything is ok.

What do you mean by reframe the everyday stressors? Like simply be ok with them? Apathy etc

Great content but there’s annoying background noises in this video

If you have ME/CFS you should NOT just go back to exercise as you did before. It is very dangerous. It is not just about being worried about the exercise itself. You have to gradually teach your body that it’s ok very very very slowly. Otherwise you could end up bedbound for months or longer. I can tell you from experience. So please don’t listen to point 5 as if it applies to you.

Sooo, no more heating pads, ice packs, stretching? Even if they feel comforting??

For no 7, any tips on how to reframe the stress?

How do we REFRAME?

I'm on fire all the time bottom of my back and leg joint is it OK to continue with my excercises?

Ok here’s a question. What about taking meds consciously? So if I tell myself, I’m going to take this med for pain AFTER I realize this is an emotional issue, is this ok? Many people would suffer horribly if they went cold turkey without medication. Myself included. And if it’s ok, pointers on not having my brain shift back to “it’s physical”.

Can u talk about tinnitsus

I can do this with all of my symptoms except SIBO symptoms. I know there is a medical condition there so how can I stop being hyper vigilant when it's not a TMS symptom like Fibro pain, migraines, etc.? Am I over thinking this?

Would neuralgia be considered a structural issue ?

i have no flare ups

i have no hope

NO SENCE ; rid of PAIN AT 11 IS NOT SOMETHIING THAT ONE CAN EVER BE rid of