Association

[WIZARD6787]

Someone posted a video which I took to mean that when you have an injury you expect it to hurt and that in effect makes it hurt even though you are completely healed.

I applied this concept to shortness of breath. I would start up a hill and be fearful I would be out of breath and therefore was. I worked on it by being aware of when I was afraid of becoming out of breath. I found the fear was more intense when with someone as I did not want them to have to deal with the distress of me being out of breath.

I liken it to associating a food that caused food poisoning and the thought of that food made me sick. With the difference being that I still have to walk up hills.

I have found it to be true for many things. I do not trust the symptoms are gone or not coming back. I dread eating as I am afraid of my Trigeminal neuralgia coming back.

I am traveling at the end of the month and see the traveling as going to be as arduous as when I was B6 and B12 deficient. Logically I am aware that it will not be as hard now.

The way I work with it is I try and have my implicit self have a new experience. This is not the same as say I did travel and at the end of my travels say "See that was not as bad." It is not just a matter of accomplishing it is about how I experience.

Some people use the term staying present. I shy away from that as those that preach to me to be present often mean don't worry about what you are experiencing I have important issues. In my experience.

I am aware this post may be esoteric. I am also aware that I am no longer searching for a possible way not to be in distress because I am B6 and B12 deficient. When I was in the throes of deficiency I could have cared less about this concept.

It is not that I am done with my exploration of how to self treat rather I am no longer in a severe brain fog.

[Hectorsmum2]

When I worked with eldery people with dementia, they would often fall, forget about it almost straight away and feel no pain even if they had fractured a hip ( untill they tried to move thier broken leg). I lost count of the amount of time I called out a doctor to a broken hip for them to be greeted by a relaxed happy patient and it was an uphill battle to get an xray.