This book had a huge and lasting impact on my life

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	• The Mindbody Prescription: Healing the Body, Healing the Pain John E. Sarno Grand Central Publishing, 1999 - 240 pages average customer review:based on 123 reviews view larger image
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The GREATEST MEDICAL BOOK EVER WRITTEN

This book has been life-changing for me and many of my patients! Once one accepts that mind and body are inextricably connected, it follows that pain in the body can serve a psychological purpose. We all tend to use defense mechanisms to keep unpleasant emotions in the UNCONSCIOUS MIND. Dr. Sarno is the PIONEER in showing the impact of the UNCONSCIOUS MIND in everyday physical symptom production. This book should be REQUIRED READING for all medical students and physicians!! It will also be of tremendous benefit for chronic pain sufferers.

This is just what the doctor ordered

I noticed most of the negative comments come from folks who don't have problems and have never had to face these situations. How do I know? Because I was one of them. An engineer by trade, I'm very left brained. But serious illness and the futility of conventional medicine in treating chronic conditions sends you searching. I also have researched much of the "science" out there coming from the drug companies. There's no money (patents) in mindbody medicine, so don't hold your breath for huge announcments from the medical establishment in this area. And if studies are done (of which there are many, by the way), the biased editors of the journals funded by the pharmaceutical industry will forthwith throw them out. Don't be too enamored by "impartial science". There is no such thing nowadays.

Dr. Sarno has hit the nail on the head in terms of understanding the source of many of our ailments. My wife has had aches and pains all over ever since we were married. She had a rough childhood and has a lot of emotional baggage. She has been 'diagnosed' with many structural issues as the source of her pain. However, by paying close attention to when the pain and other symptoms start, we have been able to recognize the emotional source of the pain and neutralize them using some emotional release techniques. An activity that has caused her back pain for a very long time no longer does. Every time she exercised, her knee would lock up. We identified the emotional reasons for this (fear of being in shape, losing weight, etc.), and the knee pain disappeared.

My only concern with Dr. Sarno's approach is that he doesn't outline an effective strategy to resolve the emotional issue, which is the real problem. Simply recognizing the pain comes from emotions does not solve the emotional problem. My concern is the mind will relocate the 'ailment' to some part of the body where you no longer recognize it as a mindbody reaction (skin, allergies, or something else). So I think his insight needs to be integrated with other effective strategies for actually resolving the emotional issues. There are options out there, such as Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), but again, for the left-brainers (like myself a few years ago), they won't buy it. That's fine. They can keep suffering!

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Worked for ten years

I was a very young boy of 14 the first time my back went out and it continued until I was left paralyzed on my bathroom floor the day of my brothers wedding.
I was flat on my back with no hope of ever being normal. And this was at 26 years old.

I stumbled onto Dr. Sarno;s book and my pain went away in two weeks. No kidding. I was a prisoner of my back for most of my YOUNG life and then after one reading the pain stopped.

And it lasted for ten years.

T two years ago I started feeling pain in my feet and then my back and then my hip. I have re-read the book and can't seem to shake the pain this time. I even stared psychotherapy to vent my unconscious rage. I am still in pain, but I know that it is caused by my unconscious stress and am really making an effort to follow the advice in the book. I have been in pain again for two years, but again, I know it is emotional. I am going to apply his principles religiously again and let you know how I feel in a few weeks.
Jimmy Dore

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This book had a huge and lasting impact on my life

Hearing about Sarno's theory and getting a hold of this book was one of the most important things that's ever happened to me. All through college I had escalating health problems. I went to a zillion specialists and got diagnosed with lots of contradictory things, but nothing made much of a difference. I had foot pain (diagnosed as plantar faciitis) to the point where I couldn't walk or stand for more than a minute (that was fun), "carpal tunnel syndrome," so that I couldn't type or write for more than a minute, bad chronic heart burn, knee and elbow pain (I was diagosed with arthritis), irritable bowel syndrome, and yeast infections. It just didn't make sense, but things kept getting progressively worse. Then one day my boyfriend was researching carpal tunnel syndrome on the web, and he found out about The Mindbody Syndrome. I got the book, did a lot of hard mental work, and over the course of a month all of my health problems disappeared. I can remember forcing myself to walk and willing my foot pain to go away, and slowly IT DID. I walked a mile, which I hadn't done in a really long time, and I knew I had the power to make everything go away. It's been been a year and a half; I still get occasional heart burn when I'm especially stressed, but that's it. (Best of luck to everyone out there that may be in a similar boat. I recommend going to the message board at http://members3.boardhost.com/premierhealth/ if you have questions.)

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