Tuesday, December 19, 2006

 

Step #2: Identify Your Unique ways of Denying, Avoiding and Repressing...

Step #2: Identify your unique ways of Denying, Avoiding and Repressing your emotions. This is a Gigantum step that you must do. Study Chapter 6 again and review the November Newsletter in the Appendix.

Chronic, conditioned thought patterns and behaviors are the most common ways that people experiencing chronic pain (cause) generate and maintain their chronic pain (effect).

The most common ways of repressing are:
Angry Outburst
Anger Suppression
Workaholism
Being Perfectionistic
Ideal Role Playing (playing the perfect parent, spouse, employee, boss, athlete)
Complaining & Judging
Controlling and Manipulating
Worry
Self-Conscious thts and behaviors
Waiting & Searching
Intelllectism
thinking, analyzing, needing to know how

Begin to watch, listen and observe your inner chatter and behaviors...Identify how you deny and resist your feelings. You must be able to do this before you can stop them and/or change them and effectively reverse the pain disorder.

Monte Hueftle

http://www.runningpain.com
monte@runningpain.com

Tuesday, December 12, 2006

 

The Sarno Dilemma...Step #1

Over 90% of the people that I work with, read my books, listen to my audio programs and have consultations with, learned about tension induced pain from Sarno. They read his books, saw his video, listened to his tapes, or personally met with him.

Yet they are still in pain! Why? They know what tms is and they know that they have repressed emotions, yet why can they not "fix" this pain disorder for good?

Most people do not know how they repress their emotional energy and they have no idea how to un-repress it...and then because of this delimma they start searching, doubting, wondering, thinking, becoming more frustrated (basically keep feeding the pain disorder).

Step #1.
Investigate and learn everything you can about and get comfortable with your unique personality traits/behaviors. This is Emotional Awareness 101. Become aware of your External Stressors, Personality Traits and your Internal Repressors (this is your patterns of: worry, complaining, judging, resenting, thts in past, thts in future. This is your daily chatter/drama that takes up about 90% of your thinking. Start observing it, watching it, listening to it.

If your intention is to heal, to get rid of your pain, you absolutely must start with this step. Emotional Awareness. You must start here. Need some help? Read and journal Chapter 6. Re-read the November newsletter. This can be found in the appendix. No need to rush through this process or think that you already know this part of yourself. Spend a lot of quality time with this and it will make the other steps much more efficent and effective.

Monte Hueftle
http://www.runningpain.com
monte@runningpain.com

Saturday, December 09, 2006

 

It's the so-called normal everyday thinking...

It is the so-called normal everyday thinking patterns of: worry, controlling, striving, complaining and grasping, searching for a fix, and being overly self-conscious that has created and maintains your painful experiences.

When we begin to recognize these thought patterns as our unique repressing agents that are involved in initiating and maintaining our pain, we can begin to interupt and switch these patterns from repression to experiencing.

During a recent consultation a person brought up some major issures from their past. These were issures from 20 yrs ago with
mother, father and brother. This person knew their issues that needed to be opened up. He fully accepted and understood that he was being closed off and repressing this emotional energy.

What he did not know was that it was the everyday thinking about these issues: the complaining, resenting, worry, and need to please, was keeping this emotional energy stuck and blocked in his system. this was how he was repressing his emotions. The resenting and complaining was always in the past and the worry and need to please was always in the future. It is impossible to experience and issue, to feel this emotional energy in the past or future, it must be experienced in the present moment.

Yes we need to open up and communicate with our issures. In order to do this we must recognize our so-called normal thinking patterns of repression are the agents that keep this painful energy stuck within us. As we get stuck in these future and past thinking patterns our energy/issues remain stuck.

Monte Hueftle
http://www.runningpain.com
monte@runningpain.com

Wednesday, December 06, 2006

 

Where is your focus (energy)

Remember to keep your focus in the present moment as much as possible today. Always, always have a strategy that you can switch your focus (energy) to something that makes you feel good. When you do this allow this feel good energy to be with you in whatever you are doing.

Keep your focus (energy) off of certain conditions that have not changed yet (physical pain). When we focus, worry, react and try to control this unchanged condition we are feeding the condition with more of the same. Want more pain and frustration? Worry about it, react to it with "how am I going to fix this" thts, try to control with physical treatments...Remember this is how we continue to feed this pain strategy.

Use pain as a Signal to be aware. Acknowledge and be grateful for this signal. Switch your focus (thts) to "what am I feeling right now", and be with that feeling, respect it.

Now switch your focus to somehting that makes you feel good--A major Want or a self-appreciation quality. Generate the thts that ingnite this good feeling and now feel this feeling and allow it to be with you as much as possible.

Monte Hueftle
http://www.runningpain.com
monte@runningpain.com

Sunday, December 03, 2006

 

My very sore achilles tendon...

My very sore achilles tendon has nothing to do with tension induced pain and everything to do with why we don't heal!

Long story-short: I severely turned my ankle 18 months ago. I had x-rays and knew that nothing was broken. The ankle took about a 12 week rehab to where I could train for LA marathon. I preceded to avg 100 mi weeks of fairly intense training for
five months leading up to LA. Ran LA and kept training for another couple of months-April-May of 2006. No ankle or tendon problems at all during this entire period. I have been running for over 25 yrs and have never had an achilles injury.

June and July were easy months of running averaging anywhere from 30-50 mi weeks at a low intensity.
In july I began to notice my achilles tendon was sore while I was driving my car. I would gently massage the tendon and Wow, it was really sore. I ignored it since I was not training for anything and it did not effect my running.

August I started to train again and my achilles was getting worse, I mean it was really sore to the touch. Since I knew that I had not injured it and I knew it was not tension related I was certain it would go away fairly easily just as it had appeared.

As I stepped up my running in Sept. I came to the realization that I needed to do something to heal it. I started to ice and self-massage a couple of times per day, with asprin every now and then, however, I would go days with doing nothing as well. As you can figure the tendon did not get better or worse it just remained an annoyance to my training. My ( laziness, ignorance, waiting and hoping) lasted for all of Oct and half of Nov.

Finally I was really frustrated. To the point that I had to get this fixed. And I almost started searching for someone when I decided to make a dedicated intention to myself to put and keep my attention on my self-treatments.

Here is my point. This is where many of you are in healing from tension induced pain. Usually it is the ultimate frustration that allows you in some way to even accept the tension induced pain diagnosis. Yet, while accepting it, you are still waiting, hoping, expecting somehow that the pain will just go away. You have accepted the diagnosis, but are not even remotely ready for the comittment it is going to take to heal.

Okay, so I began to ice and self massage, and foam roll 4-5 times per day, every day. I stepped up my self-treatments from a casual 10 minutes a day to anywhere from 2-4 hours per day. Yes, I would massage 4-5 times per day for 10-15 mins. and I would ice for 4-5 times for 20 min. each time. No days off, not even half days off. And guess what, within a week I had reduced the swelling significantly and was back to running without the soreness/stiffness in the tendon. And here I am today
1 week later with almost no signs of achilles tendinitis. just a little stiffness in the morning.

Even when we are aware of a problem, be it tension induced or an injury, if we go into that (waiting, lazy, hoping, searching) mode---nothing is going to happen except more frustration and pain.

Cheeck your self....where is your acceptance and where is your attention and where is your comittment. You just may find your solution within you.

Monte Hueftle
http://www.runningpain.com
monte@runningpain.com

Friday, December 01, 2006

 

Becoming Emotionally Aware Is Not A Big Deal...

Becoming Emotionally Aware Is Not A Big Deal.

Emotional Awareness is where you must start in healing from chronic pain caused by repressed emotional energy, however,

just learning about how you repress your emotions, how you habitually react to tension filled life situations, or compulsively live your day is usually not enough to transform your painbody.

The Big Deal is once you become aware of these emotional/personality dynamics is too take action to switch/change/interupt them so that you stop repressing (generating pain) and start opening up/freeing up your energy.

This is a big deal because only you can do it. When you accept that fact then you stop searching for someone/something to fix you and you start doing your inner work.


Monte Hueftle
http://www.runningpain.com
monte@runningpain.com

This page is powered by Blogger. Isn't yours?

Blogroll Me!