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Dr. Sarno has thousands of patients as proof that it is worth a shot. The principles behind this book apply equally to the current epidemic of mental health problems - particularly anxiety and depression - as it did to the 1990s epidemic of various ty... Read More
Author is a marathoner with a desk job. Says his back pain has subsided after running 6 days a week.
If you have back pain, even paralyzing pain, this book is worth a try. Reading this book on audible every day for 3 weeks and utilizing his method has worked for me. Journaling opened up a porthole of creativity that unleashed something within me.
Everyone has it due to the complexity of the psyche. The solution is to expand the focus of consciousness to include not only the tyrannical 'upper class', but the whole of society. The next step, imo, is to look into the underlying shadow side emotio... Read More
Cons
Book is 80% anecdotal stories of how people were cured with sarno's teachings. Causes of chronic pain are caused by processes in the brain, rather than the location in the body where they manifest themselves.
The ideas in this book are so simple they could be (and probably should have been) summarized in a few sentences. Everything else in his argument is plucked from thin air. Following are a few examples of reasons to be skeptical of the extraordinary cl... Read More
Repressed emotions are the culprit. Your pain originates from all of your repressed emotions.
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Quality
Sarno's method of dealing with the mind that stops normal healing.
Combined with the unclear successful outcomes of fai and labral repair surgery, i was starting to be very skeptical and cancell... Read More
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This reviewer after years of back pain had it dissappear even with severe osteo arthritis in the thoracic spine.
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However physiology must be checked first
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One could think of the analogy that the entire human being is like a society and certain elements of the society have been oppressed into underclasses ghettos rejects by the haughty tyrannical upper classes and overlord
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If their existence is not given healthful positive expression within society it will manifest as problem elements in prone to rejection of the system and protest
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The solution is simply to become aware of the totality of self
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Once consciousness sees that its goal is to include all elements of the self allow each one expression and so find cooperation and harmony between them then no aspect of the self is a problem anymore
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The fact that this work still offers such powerful practical prescriptions to sufferers of pain speaks to its elaboration of a timeless truth
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I agree with all the reviews that this book has parts where its too lengthy and i have found some of it sometimes irrelevant to the solution as well
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