Crushing Doubt

On the Mind Body Connection, I bring you insights into the way I work with mind body issues, including my unique experiences and ideas about my emotions, doubt and power columns. Today, I focus on the action steps that stem from each of the columns and how their purpose helps to develop action steps.

Most notably, I highlight the fact that action steps are not exclusively behavioral, but, in fact, tend to be actions of taking on or developing a new mindset. We go through the purposes of each column and I give some examples of action steps we can use for each of them.

This video also has some good examples, either from myself or from people with whom I have worked, to illustrate what these action steps might look like in real life application. Even though this is just the tip of the iceberg, the good news is that this begins to answer the most important question on everyone’s minds: HOW do I get better?

Stay tuned for even more specific information on each column and the action steps within them. Since my book is not yet out, if you would like to get a head start on learning about my work, you can contact me at [email protected], and, for a relatively small fee, you can get the PDFs that sum up a lot of my ideas and action steps. I look forward to helping you all get better soon!

This is a live Q&A about mind body symptoms with Crushing Doubt host Dr. Dan Ratner. If you have chronic pain or other physical symptoms that haven’t been able to be explained or helped by medical doctors or other alternative treatments, this information can change your life. By changing the way we think and feel, we can change our actual physiological processes to relieve — or even cure — many symptoms, from head to toe.

In this installment of our How To series, we take a close look at self esteem and how to enhance it. Using my way of understanding symptoms, we can translate them into a better, and more accurate, narrative about ourselves that can lead to more powerful experience that is more aligned with living at greater peace with ourselves.

Learn how to recognize false and/or negative narratives about yourself and how to transform them into ones that capture your experience at its core so that you can begin to make choices that fit with your deeper needs and wishes. Therapy experiences tend to not get specific enough with these themes and provide little direction for how to utilize the knowledge to come to a settled feeling with yourself about them, but these ideas can help you make more progress relatively quickly.

Among the key ideas are: accepting your trauma more fully, recognizing that all parts of you are good and understandable given your experience, and making decisions that honor who you know yourself to be, even if they may run counter to others in your life. There is nothing more important than coming to terms with yourself for symptom relief and getting rid of all doubts.

On this week’s Crushing Doubt interview, renowned mind body coach, Dan Buglio, joins me to share his journey through his symptoms and in working with others to get them free from them as well. As is often the case in mind body work, we find that we have similar ways of thinking about a lot of things with a different way to present that information.

Dan’s dedication to his clients and to sharing any helpful information he can is readily apparent and you can find his daily videos on his YouTube channel, Pain Free You. His wisdom comes from twelve years of ‘doing everything wrong’, in his own words, in his recovery efforts. But with each step trying to find his way, he learned the ways he recommends to think about the mind body situation the right way.

We connected on several ideas, such as how fear and attention represent two of the most major sources of mind body symptoms. We continued the discussion in looking at ways to move the field forward and get more people better help. Don’t miss this meeting of the minds on how to collaborate in our field to reduce fear and build up maximum hope within the pain population.

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On Crushing Doubt, we often have on pain sufferers in the process of recovery or having conquered many, or all, of their symptoms. Today, I’m sharing Ron’s journey from muscle and nerve pain to nearly pain free in just four sessions. Don’t get discouraged if this isn’t happening yet for you, though, as this just happens to illustrate how quickly things CAN change when some of the core principles hit at just the right angle and time for the sufferer.

We began by exploring his emotional life and getting his themes more articulated, which led to some powerful emotional relief and symptom reduction. This all came about by learning to understand the communication of the symptoms between the unconscious self and the body. By translating it into conscious thought, Ron gained some freedom and relief.

We then had another breakthrough in our second and third sessions, related to doubt. While Ron had always doubted everything, we used this as a strength, of sorts, because his doubts were easy to articulate and to learn from with respect to which angles he needed to feel settled in his belief in the science and logic. When this was more settled, he found even more relief.

But the biggest breakthrough came in our session about power, in which he finally understood the onset of his nerve pain and how it related — to the second — to a decision about being powerful or not.

Ron shares that he continues to do well in his recovery, making new gains in his own work on it, using the principles he learned with me. It is a pleasure to share his story of relief and growth.

This is a live Q&A about mind body symptoms with Crushing Doubt host Dr. Dan Ratner. If you have chronic pain or other physical symptoms that haven’t been able to be explained or helped by medical doctors or other alternative treatments, this information can change your life. By changing the way we think and feel, we can change our actual physiological processes to relieve — or even cure — many symptoms, from head to toe.

This is a live Q&A about mind body symptoms with Crushing Doubt host Dr. Dan Ratner. If you have chronic pain or other physical symptoms that haven’t been able to be explained or helped by medical doctors or other alternative treatments, this information can change your life. By changing the way we think and feel, we can change our actual physiological processes to relieve — or even cure — many symptoms, from head to toe.

On this episode of our How To series, Dr. Dan talks about the details of mind body work in understanding and addressing muscle pain. Learn how to understand what is really happening in the body, the ways to think about it accurately, and some tips on how to get out of your fear and fight or flight response. The number one question any pain sufferers asks is ‘How do I stop it?’ While it may take some time to understand and utilize fully, you’ll find a large boost in getting better in this perspective.

Nashville based Dr. Alicia Batson joins Dr. Dan to discuss her extensive experience as a chronic pain sufferers and, after discovering the mind body cause and solution, coming to specialize in treating it. The two talk about her harrowing ten year odyssey with a variety of baffling symptoms and the wisdom both have come to about their own lives, as well as with respect to the body and mind.