Something in me is so resistant to beginning this relaxing process. But once I start, it's consistently a positive experience. Thanks for your motivation and support, Jim!
@MsAnchovey3 жыл бұрын
Strange how that is, isnt it? I wish continued healing 🙏🏼
@thepainpt3 жыл бұрын
Many people are addicted to being in fight or flight- its more of a ramped up state than a deep relaxed calmed state
@lennekevanrossum8422 Жыл бұрын
Oh I am non stop in a fight/flight zone I realise this now very hard to change I keep trying calming myself down with your help
@BobCunt-dj8yq7 ай бұрын
It’s the fear of emotions
@Urbest_frend3 жыл бұрын
I use this video practically every day as a meditation. It helps me soo much to calm and settle my system. Big thank you for your work Jim, it’s been life saving.
@jsm90963 жыл бұрын
Another great TMS video. Thanks for your continued help in such a catch-22 battle, Jim!
@suemobsby71553 жыл бұрын
A big thank you Jim I could almost feel my pain subsiding going to do this regularly
@kathleencochrane96982 жыл бұрын
I appreciate that the body needs to shift from sympathetic nervous system, but the PTSD state demands vigilance, so when I try to relax my body it says no I need to stay alert and therefore tense. So I hope you can do a guided relaxation that includes creating a sense of safety in order for the body to be willing to let go.
@thepainpt2 жыл бұрын
Yes ur right that’s what it does. Talk to your limbic brain you need to convince it you are safe. Use evidence and logic the prefrontal cortex needs to regulate and keep in check this amygdala that can run wild (amygdala hijack). Let whatever the amygdala creates flow and go. Let the tension unwind gradually. You need to face the ptsd symptoms from a place that confronts them with exposure and mental messaging as well as working with the emotions. Reach out if you need more help
@megank47422 жыл бұрын
I'm glad I found this video and will return again and again
@MsAnchovey3 жыл бұрын
This is a good one! Even the vacation backdrop adds to the relaxation, Thanks much!
@barb49er20002 жыл бұрын
Fabulous ! I will come back to this often. Thanks!
@NealMaingot3 жыл бұрын
Thank you, sometimes we just need to be reminded to chill. Awesome videos Jim!
@lennekevanrossum8422 Жыл бұрын
Didn't know I could be in such a relaxed state not drifting of amazing soo good
@idragonfly Жыл бұрын
Mahalo nui! loa from Big Island, Hawaii. 🌴
@carolinechapman32472 жыл бұрын
I've found this video incredibly helpful and try to do it daily. Thank you.
@mis-ess2974 Жыл бұрын
Hi just started this now after suffering months on chronic pelvic pain. I have felt a difference in the pain levels already. Will continue this.
@piggies.2542 жыл бұрын
This was extremely helpful, thanks!
@lennekevanrossum8422 Жыл бұрын
Slept well did this again this morning never felt so relaxed I really liked what you said about the symptoms that they will take care of themselves in due time I always thought that if I am in a relaxed state the sym would lesten or go away now I know this is not going to happen soo got to be patient I can do this will do this video every day thank you Jim love you Lenneke from the Netherlands 😘😘😘
@nathaliebrunet41653 жыл бұрын
Thank you Jim so very much for your help, I’ve been in acute pain for 18 years and I finally understand and am putting it into practice
@judithwhitelaw2684 Жыл бұрын
This is great Jim I am stuck in fight / flight and struggling to get into the parasympathetic
@jackcroydon2772 Жыл бұрын
This video helped give me a aha moment so Thankyou very much ❤
@fifiearthwanderer2 жыл бұрын
Love the metaphor of the balloon. 🙏🏼🙏🏼💯
@marytredinnick33662 жыл бұрын
thank you❤
@Trissa.33 Жыл бұрын
Oh wow, thanks so much, I'm like jello now 🙃☺I needed this. I'll be listening to this often. So grateful, Jim.
@ChrisSaenz133 жыл бұрын
Incredibly helpful thank you!
@bethechangebath76633 жыл бұрын
Great video. Interesting exercise. My legs are permanently stiff so it’s hard to relax them as you say at the beginning. Gradually my mind and body start to let go and a wave of anxiety comes up. I flush red. I just let it happen, observe it but it is weird. Then I settle gain and this evening I started to shake! Again I just observed. Finished more relaxed but I think still in a sympathetic rather than parasympathetic mode. Will continue to practice.
@thepainpt3 жыл бұрын
Yes Layers of tension and stress coming up and peeling off keep going!
@jelenegilmore48213 жыл бұрын
I get this type of reaction it seems every couple hours throughout the day...especially when trying to relax my system. It starts with an uncomfortable sense of impending doom followed by sweating/hot flash. At times burning skin follows this. It’s such an uncomfortable response that it adds to my resistance to relaxing but I push through it hoping in time it’ll settle more and these reactions won’t happy as my limbic system trusts I really am safe. These episodes are exhausting though and I’m trying to stay as calm as I can through them! I also get them right upon waking in the morning..
@ladybrock3 жыл бұрын
Very helpful thank you 🙏
@vitamind63558 ай бұрын
Thank you.
@marniesvids3 жыл бұрын
So good, thank you 😁
@teresakohler7176 Жыл бұрын
CRPS ... OMG !!! Thank You
@kylebichler22582 жыл бұрын
Good content.
@Noneofyourbusiness-rq9jq8 ай бұрын
amazing
@MsAnchovey3 жыл бұрын
I think I would be on the couch ALL day in meditation if what you say is the answer. I already do meditating and other things but then you have Dan Bulgio saying, get off the couch and live your life as if you have no pain/damage. I'm confused. I guess do them both as I have been. I do a lot of parasympathetic inducing things and o try to live my life. Thanks for all your efforts on our behalf.
@thepainpt3 жыл бұрын
The whole point of this IS getting off the couch. It's not what you do but how you do it. Meaning carrying an inner state of peace and relaxation while you do anything you want in the world is the key. I always tell people you can being as fast you want in life but still be relaxed on the inside. This is the practice- relax into everything you do and feel! Especially since we know with confidence from the research people with chronic conditions aren't keeping their rest digest and relax nervous system turned on
@pieter905810 ай бұрын
@@thepainpt I have spinal cord damage and I don't walk well. I only walk short distances. When I walk I have neuropathic pain in my feet. I couldn't walk for 4 years now I can walk for like 15 minutes. I can not stand for long. So I can not live my normal old life and I'm scared of walking. How can I tell my brain I'm ok? I have been scared to walk for years.
@Gabriellekidd4 ай бұрын
Thank you so much for this video. Going through hell with health… I was wondering if you might have any videos specifically for sleep?
@jossjekraayvanger71312 жыл бұрын
I still need and use this video daily. Is that oké? I mean... more like... I can't really get there without lying down and listening...
@thepainpt2 жыл бұрын
Yes no problem!!!
@reenasingh-id9zh4 ай бұрын
I can relax my body and feel the feelings but my mind is distracted all the time . I dont know how to put it into ease . Initially when I started these practices it was so good ,a few days I felt so good but now most of the time I am into my mind tracking past or future .Any help
@thewoodster86073 жыл бұрын
Hi Jim, another great video. What's going on with the background! 😁😁😁
@thepainpt3 жыл бұрын
Funny you should ask. We’ve been having a lot of work done on our house so I put the backdrop on because guys are moving furniture and stuff all over the place. My wife commented that you’re wearing a jacket even though it looks like you’re at the beach :) it’s actually a real photo we took when we were down in Mexico last year pre-pandemic
@cdracos13 жыл бұрын
Very nice on the sofa before bedtime,! I'll try it tomorrow while knocking a wall down with a sledge hammer, then shoveling the bricks all day . 😃 On a serious note , is this really possible to work on a site in parasympathetic mode without being sacked ?
@thepainpt3 жыл бұрын
I always tell people it’s not what you do but how you do it!
@MsAnchovey3 жыл бұрын
What are your chronic symptoms. And how can you do what you do with pain? 😑
@cdracos13 жыл бұрын
@@MsAnchovey will power to survive. Practicing indifference , so not supposed to talk about symptoms. Self talk that im ok. Mini breaks to calm down.
@DHRUVISM20163 жыл бұрын
@@cdracos1 u got this. The not talking part cann be soo tough sometimes and the indifference during a flare up.
Thank you very much, I’m Dutch and English is not my native language. With the echo and no microphone it’s hard to understand. I love to luring from you 🌈🙏
@zheniakancheva45073 жыл бұрын
Hi Jim, I am trying to heal chronic bladder condition. Finally I managed to relax my body and felt great improvement of my symptoms for several days, but suddenly I start to feel strange tingling, trembling and pulsations in my feet, arms and face. These sensations are continuing already 2 weeks. Could it be a kind of reaction of the nervous system as a result of the healing process or it is a new illness? I am starting to panic again.
@thepainpt3 жыл бұрын
Yes sounds like a reaction from the limbic brain. Just relax more deeply this will pass. The limbic brain does not trust that you are ok yet and is reacting back thinking there is still danger or a threat. By relaxing and calming you are teaching it everything is actually ok
@christinehart80182 жыл бұрын
💯♥️
@starprice73897 ай бұрын
We love you❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
@asafeplacepodcast2690 Жыл бұрын
Hi. Had an abreaction during hypnosis. Felt terror when feeling an overwhelming feeling of illness in me. Woke myself up after trauma. So I've been using self hypnosis to go into a deeper state to confront this overwhelming fear of the Ill feeling and I'm getting better but once I've felt it my nervous system is on red alert for hours days after the self hypnosis How do I heal this feeling?
@christineleclair93403 жыл бұрын
Is this basically akin to meditation? That's kind of how it felt. But yes, I did feel more relaxed in body and mind doing this.
@thepainpt3 жыл бұрын
Call it what you want- it is shifting autonomic nervous system to the parasympathetic- then trying to do that as much as you can throughout the day- thats the key!
@MsAnchovey3 жыл бұрын
Can I workout with this practice. I'm a trainer and love to workout but this t practice takes the energy away.
@thepainpt3 жыл бұрын
Hey Ann you can do it after your work out if you want. Because it’s geared more towards the parasympathetic you might feel a little more sleepy etc. while workouts are really stimulating IThe sympathetic nervous system
@hew1950502 жыл бұрын
Any thoughts on Wim Hof breathing and this?
@thepainpt2 жыл бұрын
Can be good for working with the nervous system and clearing stress
@lennekevanrossum8422 Жыл бұрын
Can you be calm but still your symptoms are going through the roof it is unbearable I got mouth pain chest pain and neck pain not normal today
@thepainpt Жыл бұрын
Might be repressing or suppressing. Have it to let it flow to go have to let the stuff pass before it settles