Excellent wellness book❗ This 1991 edition is ALL that's needed to learn about Dr❤️ Sarno's amazing old fashion "by the book medical practice"👍 There is an accompanying video, however MUST 🙄read the book FIRST‼️ ( )

So after nearly an entire lifetime of no back issues, bang I was hit with sciatica. Ouch. No pain in the back really but a lot down the leg supposedly caused by the back. So I embarked upon the medical jungle circuit. GP, X-rays, Ortho, pills, PT, MRI, possible injections, next, next, next. The condition, about the same.

So with no discernible help I embarked upon my own research and came across this audiobook from years ago. Dr. Sarno flatly states that all back pain and related issues are 99% from your brain not your back. Really quite a different approach to try and wrap around.

It is quite persuasive in its presentation but quite short on remedy other than heavy counseling to get in touch with the inner demons that cause this pain. Preferably with a doctor or psych that subscribes to Dr. Sarno's ideas.

So I reflected upon this and tried to determine in my mind if I was improperly potty trained and it manifested itself in repressed anger that finally surfaced at age 65. This drew a blank, but I continue to search. Of course I am being a bit facetious here but it is only to illustrate the difficult journey this condition puts you on and the seemingly never ending search for answers.

I continue the search and if I discover my own root cause for the pain somewhere in the inner recesses of my mind I look forward to the relief. ( )

Although I wish there were a more up-to-date and less defensive version of this book, the premise is excellent - that our own repressed emotions cause physical pain. I've been wondering myself if I might, for that reason, keep an anger journal, password protected on MS Word. I'm going to explore other ideas for expressing anger but I am reluctant at the same time, to fan it. Back to the book: I agree with the premise, but wish the presentation were better. ( )

Very interesting evidence of the power of the Mind over the Body. Psycho (Mind) Somatic (Body) diseases have gotten an undeserved bad reputation in this era of "evidence based medicine" where doctors (who never touch the patient anymore), seldom ask any questions about their patient's subjective experience of life, and instead prefer to make diagnosis after looking at lab work and imaging results. ( )

The mind body connection