Ridd
08-10-2017, 04:42 PM
The last few weeks I've been in a rut. I haven't been making much progress and my energy has been shot down by a light crash that I had recently. I want to share something very important that I found in English's recovery that I didn't see here but that I found on his original PH recovery post.
When I get in these ruts, sometimes I can "forum scavenge" and spend a ridiculous amount of time searching forums, reading experiences, trying to find more of what "works" just like many of you here. We're always trying to find things to add to our regiment so we get recovered quicker, but I truly believe we have everything in our own bodies. The supplements are just to help, not to cure.
Yesterday, on my day off, I spent most of my free time just scavenging for more tools to get better. It's obsessive and unhealthy to be honest. I'd research and get wrapped up for hours just trying to find out more about what I'm missing. it shows that I don't always fully believe in the recovery protocol that we have before us.
Now why is it so important to believe? Having this positive reinforcement is obviously important, but why?
English posted a book that should serve as our holy bible: You Are The Placebo. This book explains many things, and if you don't have the commitment to read the whole book right now (I haven't finished but I've already watched tons of videos and lectures by the same author-) you should dive into some of his talks. Here's a good intro to it: Dr Joe Dispenza- TED Talks with Dr Joe Dispenza - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W81CHn4l4AM)
I'll pull out a few points that we should all remember: A lot of us already do this stuff, but it is SO SO SO important to be reminded of this stuff every time we stray from our path of recovery.
Many of you, like myself, are very analytical, I believe, just like english, that many of us have a tendency to overthink, to over analyze our situations and dwell. To be negative. I know that is my experience and english believes that this is the single biggest obstacle to recovery. English believes that fin/sp/whatever helped put us here, but ultimately, it was our own beliefs that keep us here.
Dr Spinoza who authored You Are The Placebo, points out that people given sugar pills in many circumstances, will recover from many diseases. One in particular that I remember is that the recovery rate from people using Anti-depressants's vs placebo is the same. People are getting better just by believing that they taking something that makes them better. Anti depressants aren't any more effective in treating depression than a fucking sugar pill, but they both work very well. What do most of us have in common?
conversely he mentions that people getting treated for cancer with a chemo-placebo will start believing that they are experiencing chemo-affects- their hair will start falling out, they'll lose weight and become weak.
In the video I linked, he explains how our habits, our negative thought processes and fixations can and will become reality simply IF WE BELIEVE IT. this kind of stuff is backed by much research and it really shows that the mind is the ultimate tool to our recovery here. I always thought it was interesting, out of the many recovery stories I've read, a lot of them claimed faith in god curing them had cured them. the funny thing is, god did cure these people, essentially. I'm atheist, but I believe in science, and I believe that there is indisputable evidence that simply by believing we are recovering and keeping up this positive reinforcement, we will recover. A lot of the time it doesn't matter what it is that you think is making you better, as long as you believe it. and if you're like me and you have had a negative leaning attitude for years, then shifting our mind will take much work to break these habits that have been reinforced for perhaps most of our lives.
I always think about how PFS sufferers have such high rates of depression, and I truly don't believe that I know a single person with this who hasn't been depressed. Part of this is physiological, but as anyone with depression knows, depression is largely a mental condition that you can actively get yourself out of. I have done it before, I have been plagued by years of depression from negativity and I got out of it after struggling since I was 12-13 years old just by surrounding myself with positivity and not focusing on my depression. But saw palmetto has put me back here, and it's pretty understandable for any of us to be depressed or negatively leaning, but I think that depression/negativity is what is making us deteriorate. Even if you don't think you have depression, simply by giving into the negative habits that many of us have neurally written into our minds is damaging us.
English believes that 90% of PFS is mental. We have all the tools to recover and I know it's kind of ironic to hear what doctors have been telling us. It's in our heads. Not exactly in the way they know it. however I think that what we all have in common is that we believe we have this disease that we have told ourselves is permanent. I believe that we have been brought out of hormonal balance and simply by getting out of our negative states, by focusing on this positive reinforcement and reshaping the way our brain fires we can recover. This isn't just my opinion, but a fact that neuroscientists have proven countless times. You are what you believe.
You can't just fucking think "I'm recovered" and it'll happen. But after months or maybe years for some of us of doing this, even if you're faking it at first, your brain will rewire itself and rewire your reality. As Dr Dispenza says, your reality is what you believe. That's why meditation is so important in this, because it gives you the tools to reshape and rest your brain.
How many of you truly go into the protocol with everything you have, every single day, knowing that even though we may not be at 100% physiologically this moment, that recovery for ALL OF US is inevitable simply by believing it, rewiring our reality and giving our body what it needs?
I know I haven't been 100% committed these last few weeks, and my lack of progress shows. No more wallowing, no more giving in to depression and negativity. We only have positive rewiring towards recovery holding us back. That is a fact. Why do you think all of these negative people in other forums aren't getting anything to show for progress? They literally don't believe many people who say they recover. that is some powerful projection right there- they are voicing their own negativity and their own frame of mind of never actually believing that they will recover.
This has all been said before, but I really felt the need to reiterate. You will recover. You must believe it.
Here's english's story someone copied over to solvepfs: (different than what is posted on this site) SolvePFS Login (http://www.solvepfs.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=723)
When I get in these ruts, sometimes I can "forum scavenge" and spend a ridiculous amount of time searching forums, reading experiences, trying to find more of what "works" just like many of you here. We're always trying to find things to add to our regiment so we get recovered quicker, but I truly believe we have everything in our own bodies. The supplements are just to help, not to cure.
Yesterday, on my day off, I spent most of my free time just scavenging for more tools to get better. It's obsessive and unhealthy to be honest. I'd research and get wrapped up for hours just trying to find out more about what I'm missing. it shows that I don't always fully believe in the recovery protocol that we have before us.
Now why is it so important to believe? Having this positive reinforcement is obviously important, but why?
English posted a book that should serve as our holy bible: You Are The Placebo. This book explains many things, and if you don't have the commitment to read the whole book right now (I haven't finished but I've already watched tons of videos and lectures by the same author-) you should dive into some of his talks. Here's a good intro to it: Dr Joe Dispenza- TED Talks with Dr Joe Dispenza - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W81CHn4l4AM)
I'll pull out a few points that we should all remember: A lot of us already do this stuff, but it is SO SO SO important to be reminded of this stuff every time we stray from our path of recovery.
Many of you, like myself, are very analytical, I believe, just like english, that many of us have a tendency to overthink, to over analyze our situations and dwell. To be negative. I know that is my experience and english believes that this is the single biggest obstacle to recovery. English believes that fin/sp/whatever helped put us here, but ultimately, it was our own beliefs that keep us here.
Dr Spinoza who authored You Are The Placebo, points out that people given sugar pills in many circumstances, will recover from many diseases. One in particular that I remember is that the recovery rate from people using Anti-depressants's vs placebo is the same. People are getting better just by believing that they taking something that makes them better. Anti depressants aren't any more effective in treating depression than a fucking sugar pill, but they both work very well. What do most of us have in common?
conversely he mentions that people getting treated for cancer with a chemo-placebo will start believing that they are experiencing chemo-affects- their hair will start falling out, they'll lose weight and become weak.
In the video I linked, he explains how our habits, our negative thought processes and fixations can and will become reality simply IF WE BELIEVE IT. this kind of stuff is backed by much research and it really shows that the mind is the ultimate tool to our recovery here. I always thought it was interesting, out of the many recovery stories I've read, a lot of them claimed faith in god curing them had cured them. the funny thing is, god did cure these people, essentially. I'm atheist, but I believe in science, and I believe that there is indisputable evidence that simply by believing we are recovering and keeping up this positive reinforcement, we will recover. A lot of the time it doesn't matter what it is that you think is making you better, as long as you believe it. and if you're like me and you have had a negative leaning attitude for years, then shifting our mind will take much work to break these habits that have been reinforced for perhaps most of our lives.
I always think about how PFS sufferers have such high rates of depression, and I truly don't believe that I know a single person with this who hasn't been depressed. Part of this is physiological, but as anyone with depression knows, depression is largely a mental condition that you can actively get yourself out of. I have done it before, I have been plagued by years of depression from negativity and I got out of it after struggling since I was 12-13 years old just by surrounding myself with positivity and not focusing on my depression. But saw palmetto has put me back here, and it's pretty understandable for any of us to be depressed or negatively leaning, but I think that depression/negativity is what is making us deteriorate. Even if you don't think you have depression, simply by giving into the negative habits that many of us have neurally written into our minds is damaging us.
English believes that 90% of PFS is mental. We have all the tools to recover and I know it's kind of ironic to hear what doctors have been telling us. It's in our heads. Not exactly in the way they know it. however I think that what we all have in common is that we believe we have this disease that we have told ourselves is permanent. I believe that we have been brought out of hormonal balance and simply by getting out of our negative states, by focusing on this positive reinforcement and reshaping the way our brain fires we can recover. This isn't just my opinion, but a fact that neuroscientists have proven countless times. You are what you believe.
You can't just fucking think "I'm recovered" and it'll happen. But after months or maybe years for some of us of doing this, even if you're faking it at first, your brain will rewire itself and rewire your reality. As Dr Dispenza says, your reality is what you believe. That's why meditation is so important in this, because it gives you the tools to reshape and rest your brain.
How many of you truly go into the protocol with everything you have, every single day, knowing that even though we may not be at 100% physiologically this moment, that recovery for ALL OF US is inevitable simply by believing it, rewiring our reality and giving our body what it needs?
I know I haven't been 100% committed these last few weeks, and my lack of progress shows. No more wallowing, no more giving in to depression and negativity. We only have positive rewiring towards recovery holding us back. That is a fact. Why do you think all of these negative people in other forums aren't getting anything to show for progress? They literally don't believe many people who say they recover. that is some powerful projection right there- they are voicing their own negativity and their own frame of mind of never actually believing that they will recover.
This has all been said before, but I really felt the need to reiterate. You will recover. You must believe it.
Here's english's story someone copied over to solvepfs: (different than what is posted on this site) SolvePFS Login (http://www.solvepfs.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=723)