Mind Over Back Pain: Dr. Sarno

[boyDapperDan]

I dont know if this is the right place to post this. But I was recently viweing some stuff on you tube and came across DR. Sarno. and his books about healing back pain.any case on of the videos mentioned about this study. Its amazing how power of persuasion works. but i thought it might be good for some here. I cant find the video on youtube right now. but very interesting. Reading a book called "A Divided Mind"Pretty neat stuff...

 

[Emilyomouse]

I have read up on this and watched a few videos. I totally believe it. The symptoms aren't just pain but parasthesias weakness and other sensory stuff. The studies indicate it is brought on by a sense of lacking self worth or believing your not good enough. I believe this is a primary reason and the core of anxiety. Not to beat a dead horse but. " As a man believes in his heart, so is he"

 

[jcrissmanX]

Sarno is right on. I've read three of his books and followed him for 6 or so years. Rid myself of several long term problems through his methods.He believes many benign health problems are caused by subconsciously repressed emotions (mostly rage and fear) that are not societally acceptable (ex: anger at your child for not leavin you free time). Your subconscious creates the real physiological symptoms to distract you from the emotions. Hard for many people to believe that emotional states cause physiological changes though everyone admits embarrassment can make your cheeks red and nervousness can make you sweat.

 

[boyDapperDan]

Ya I just got into sarano.It's amazing but also helps to Implement in life.Mind is powerful. We forget that our emotions can cause an actual physical reaction. So many time when we get anxious about something we get a stomach ache. Or goose bumps. Well goosebumps are immediate physical manifestation of some hightend emotion.Or when we think if a lemon we can almost taste it.So ofcourse all of out constant fears and our kind stuckOn every twitch and if this is me then it's a lot of you I sure. We follow our pain and sensation all day. We live in it's world. We follow it from one place to another fully. So imagine what our fears and constant negative thinking is doing. My thing is I get what dr. Sarno is saying but how toMove forward now ? I am working with an acupuncturist. She is hypnotherapist tooAnd is helping me. Try to look in to EFT. There are some great videos on YouTube

 

[AllGoodHere]

Yes I read Sarno's books a while back - he makes some good points. The ones I took away from his work is that you can't separate the mind/body - and we are just not consciously aware of what is going on in our own bodies like we'd like to think. That is good in some respects as we don't have to think about the systems being regulated (breathing, blinking, digestion) but bad in that we are not connected to responses in our bodies and actions due to lack of this awareness.Some people reject his views entirely but I don't see how then he could have helped so many people who had previously seen so many other specialists unsuccessfully. He and others have published papers on this work - it is not snake oil even if it is hard to quantify. I think it's his idea of repressed emotions messing you up as that is not acceptable to many people (it sounds a bit insane). But hey, how many times during the day do you have to 'bite your tongue' or we just get into the social habit of not saying what we are actually feeling and thinking? This is repression also but we are aware of it - when it becomes habitual we may not be though. Meditation helps me with this stuff because you quiet your mind and some thoughts kind of bubble to the surface, sort of like they may do in a dream (but not as weirdly expressed). Fan - some people have this result with acupuncture as a good AP will try to release stress in you body and you may then have a release of thoughts, ideas, coming to surface. It's odd but it happens in other therapies also. Good luck with it.