The Tyranny of Thinking

Rebel Health Radio

The Tyranny of Thinking - How Overthinking Exacerbates Symptoms in Chronic Illness. The thinking (cognitive) parts of our brain are extraordinary problem solvers but what happens when the thinking is part of the problem? In this podcast as part of my weekly updates on matters related to Emotional Health and Healing, I discuss The Tyranny of Thinking. How over-thinking and rumination takes us down the rabbit hole of identification with fear and catastrophization whereby any new symptom or feeling we have immediately needs to be analysed and problem solved. The difficulty with this is that raises the stress level and creates more diverse and intractable symptoms. Find out how to break the cycle of being in your head all the time.
Giving some examples I describe how thinking drives more and diverse symptoms which modern medicine struggles to understand. See my book The Scar that won't Heal for more info https://mybook.to/ljxjh Join in my Emotional AUDIT group programme - starts end October 23 or the monthly Community Sessions https://www.alchemytherapies.co.uk/book
00:00 Intro - thinking is only 15% of functioning - our executive capacity
01:46 overthinking is your brain pattern matching to previous experience
02:30 overwhelm of diagnosis can induce problem solving strategy
05:00 non organic symptoms are not due to tissue damage but to repressed emotion 06:31 scans and investigations focus the mind on more thinking/worrying
07:30 a bottom up approach uses past experience to inform emotional release
08:00 the anxiety cycle needs breaking somatically (by vagal toning) with EFT/tapping 09:00 implicit memory of threat gets triggered by current life triggers needs soothing 10:00 emotions are the missing link in healing - the cell danger response and gene expression
10:20 The Emotional AUDIT programme and Community Sessions (both group sessions)

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