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HEALING BACK PAIN
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Tired of living with back pain? Ready to let it go? Read this book!
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 Healing
Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection
by John E. Sarno
Chronic pain can be a technique the subconscious mind uses to divert your attention from emotional pain. Through
awareness of this process, you can remove the cause of your physical pain by redirecting your attention to your
emotions, or merely by acknowledging/affirming that the cause is emotional.
According to the author emotions such as repressed anger, low self-esteem and fear of pain and additional injury
cause the mind-body connection to produce physical pain through localized mild oxygen deprivation. He does not
believe most back pain is caused by structural problems such as herniated discs, disc degeneration, strenuous exercise,
poor posture, incorrect body mechanics during movement or lifting, or a sedentary lifestyle. Nor does he believe
it is helped by even the best of physical therapies or exercise programs designed to strengthen the back.
For some people, this is difficult to believe. Being a hypnotherapist, I had no difficulty accepting the author's
contoversial ideas. He is correct in saying that it can be difficult to let go of traditional beliefs about the
causes and treatment of back pain. However, once you get beyond that, you will find his advice to be remarkably
accurate and helpful. I highly respect his methods, which include building your confidence in his system before
returning to normal physical activity.
Though beliefs are essential to this system, it is not a placebo affect which you will experience. It is a new
way of directing your energies, of dealing with your subconscious, which allows you eliminate emotionally induced
pain.
I'm sold on the concept myself, and would like to let others know about it. The copy I read was from my local library.
You don't have to buy the book to benefit from it! But please, if you have back pain (or other chronic pain) do
read this book!
-Randi Kuhne
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Also by Dr. John Sarno:
The Mindbody Prescription
: Healing the Body, Healing the Pain
Dr. John Sarno caused quite a ruckus back in 1990 when he suggested that back pain is all in the head. In his bestselling
book, Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection, he claimed that backaches, slipped discs, headaches, and other
chronic pains are due to suppressed anger, and that once the cause of the anger is addressed, the pain will vanish.
Relieved Amazon.com readers call this book "liberating" and say "it sounds too good to be true,
but it is true." Sarno has returned with The Mindbody Prescription, in which he explains how emotions including
guilt, anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem can stimulate the brain to manufacture physical symptoms including
fibromyalgia, repetitive strain injuries, migraine headaches, hay fever, colitis, ulcers, and even acne. If these
psychosomatic problems all sound a little Freudian, what with the repression of emotions in the unconscious, it's
because Sarno unapologetically borrows from Freud for the basis of his theory and cites childhood trauma as a major
source of emotional problems. He also says that his program is a "talking cure" of sorts, since patients
must be convinced their pain is rooted in their emotions before healing can begin.
The book reads a bit like psychology text, with Sarno quoting from psychoanalytic theorists including Heinz Kohut
and Graeme Taylor and the DSM-IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition). Sarno
walks through the neurophysiology of mindbody disorders, lists the symptoms of dozens of disorders that he believes
are emotion-based, and offers a basic program for overcoming psychosomatic pain and illness. His recovery plan
includes meditation and sometimes psychotherapy, including behavior modification, and stopping any medication or
physical therapy. While Sarno's ideas seem radical, they were commonly implemented earlier in the 20th century,
when psychoanalysis was at its peak of popularity, and they promise to become more accepted in our current era
of alternative medical therapies and anger management. -Amazon.com |
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