Keep Your Eye on the Prize

If you would like help in your healing and understanding how emotions can be driving your physical symptoms, I help people with 1-1 coaching sessions and offer group coaching as well. Head to my website below to learn more.

[manmeetbrar]

I adore you a lot ❤your videos helped me a lot to recover from postpartum anxiety all of my blood tests are normal but my body always in fight/ flight state. I am kind of very confused and concerned that what’s wrong with my body but your videos truly helped me and give me the hope and confidence to recognize and understand the importance of being okay that everything is alright and positive self talk/ affirmations 😊thank you so much Jim ❤keep up the good work 👍love your content 🎉

[pattyboucetta]

The prize is Freedom! That’s my goal.

[joaniemiller]

Emotional symptoms. Right on. Its so true. I got triggered by a phone call today. A friend called me and told me a tornado just ripped through her yard an thank God missed her house. Well right after she told me that I felt fear and sure enough pain in my hip and ribs flared up. Definitely i made the connection . Label it and let it flow on through, not fighting it. It will pass

[moneygetten]

Im finaly spending most of my time out off fight/flight... This stuff works!!

[chrisrex]

Jim your insights are so valuable.Your video on reframing has helped me enormously-its hard to express the profound impact it has had for me in calming my nervous system and cooling distressing tinnitus symptoms.A turning point for sure.Thank You.

[adesignforlivinginterventi]

Thanks Jim for consistently reminding us!

[kobe]

I find that my symptoms are more geared towards anxiety than physical. Could you do a video on anxiety as that is a TMS equivalent?

[KeithWilsonVideo]

I have trouble trying to determine whether my symptoms are actual discomfort from my pacer or anxiety.

[bethhenderson]

Great explanation Jim...really helped me understand better...THANK YOU! its such a relief!

[TeresaWalters-zqmt]

What if we have already worked through some of the emotions and still experience sensations? maybe it was emotions that started the TMS journey and have since been resolved but now the brain is operating off of patterns, memory ie neuropathic patterns. We still have to teach the brain we are safe. Emotions in the present moment should be felt but do we need to dig up old traumas especially if we have already done that work?

[kobe]

Are anxiety and depression considered emotions? Or are they just a symptom of emotions?

[minaverheijden]

I try so hard but i can't get rid of my burning mouth syndrom 😢

[summergrogan]

What do you do if you have both?

I know I have chronic pain from a fracture at l4/l5.
But then it turned into a dx of May thurner, pcs and nutcracker. The May Thurner is a compression of the iliac vein, and it just so happens to occur at the same level as my fracture. I’m having a really hard time differentiating between the old chronic pain that I have from the back injury and the vascular compressions. Different doctors have said different things so I don’t have anybody agreeing.I don’t want to convince myself that an alarming pain is in my head when it really does need to be surgically fixed. The issue is the pain from the fracture and the pain from the May Turner, and somewhat from the Nutcracker, are all in the same area. In the case of May Thurner syndrome, the iliac vein is being smooshed against the spine; in the case of Nutcracker, renal vein is compressed, and therefore is using the left ovarian vein as its outlet for blood flow. That is in turn, flowing directly into the compression of the iliac vein, which is the May thurner. Basically they feed off each other. There’s a ton of pressure by all the collateral vessels formed, and without going into any further detail I’m just in a position to where I really feel like I don’t know up from down. I don’t know how to do this brain retraining work on issues that I’m 100% sure are neuroplastic when I also may have very real other issues that may potentially need surgery. What do you do if you have both at the same time. Does this mess up the brain when you’re sending messages to yourself that you’re safe with chronic pain while you still have, potentially pain because of real structural issues in the same area too? Anyone please have insight. I need guidance.

[wednesdayschild]

Doctors will keep checking forever. I have the reports to prove it.

[bryanstough]

Jim, Thank you for your thoughts. I recently lost my wife after a 3 year battle with cancer. She was 40, I am 43. I have 5 small kids 6-12. After her death, my stress is at an all time high. I am working hard to be mindful, but my body feels like it am hit by a truck everyday. Mostly pain in my lower back. I know it it TMS. I have been reading Dr. Sarno’s book, but the pain comes and goes and is worse in the morning. Sleeping has been a problem for months. I wake up exhausted and sore all over. Any insights for me? Would a coaching session be helpful and do you have ideas to help me move forward?