I have one Goal today.
If I achieve this one thing, I know it will change your life.
I am also here with an overlaying goal with every newsletter I send you – to EMPOWER you.
Let me tell you my specific goal today.
I want you to read or listen to a book.
A book which I believe is in the TOP 5 of the 500+ books I have read over the last 26 years on physical and mental health.
For insight, impact, and practical capacity to change your life.
The book is “Mind Your Body“, by Nicole J Sachs, who is a psychotherapist that worked with Dr Sarno (more on him later) and has personally reversed decades-worth of multiple chronic symptoms in her body.
She has also enabled 100’s and 1000’s of other people to do the same.
Through her direct clinical work, her books, and her Podcast (A Cure for Chronic Pain).
And by the way, the reason I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE her book is because she has expanded on, synthesized, and broadened the leading-edge work of Dr Sarno, around the TRUE causes of chronic pain in our bodies.
The book is also packed with real-world cases of people with multiple chronic illness symptoms with years of pain, $1000’s and $1000’s of dollars spent, and complete loss of faith in the modern medical system (whose most common professional advice was “take these pills and learn to live with the pain, discomfort and embarrassment”).
If you trust me to offer you good, no-strings-attached advice, then just go an order the book now (Amazon). Or, if you need more convincing, read on.
Why knowing this information (in this book) is life changing
I came across the work of Dr John E. Sarno, through his book Healing Back Pain, a few years ago when I was laid up with backpain, which was registering about a 9/10 on the pain scale.
From just reading his book (over about 1 day), the pain dropped down to about 2/10.
He introduced me to the term TMS – tension miyositis syndrome.
He also synthesized a collection of thoughts, observations, experiences and insights, I had also established since training in Neuro Linguistics Programming (NLP), hypnotherapy and reiki in 2007.
I already knew the significant impact of emotions on our physical body, which Candace Pert, a neuroscientist, and the person who laid the foundation for the field of psychoneuroimmunology, called “molecules of emotions”. That is, emotions create different biochemistry in the body, which affects us physiologically.
Simply put, emotions impact physical matter (they are not just floaty things in our minds).
Dr Sarno, made we aware of – for me – an even more mind-blowing observation.
Now Dr Sarno was a trained physician, old school, and in the late 60’s was specialising in rehabilitation. He found after many years that the “standard” rehabilitation practices, where just not working, especially over the long-term.
He also found that x-rays and MRI’s, showing some physical issue in the body (e.g. a bulging disc), did not correlate to where the pain was expressing. The Mayo Clinic later did a study of x-rays of people who did not have back pain, and found that a significant proportion (over 30%), also had bulging discs, and other suspected anomalies, but had NO PAIN.
I could go much deeper here, but as you know, my singular goal is just to get you to read or listen to the book (or Podcast).
Essentially, Dr Sarno posited, and proved over a few decades, that the brain (one of the most complex, capable and powerful things on planet earth), could decide that PHYSICAL pain is more manageable for the body’s “survival” than the expression of suppressed or repressed EMOTIONAL pain (such as rage, shame, terror, fear and despair).
Therefore, the brain would create physical symptoms in the body to distract the mind from perceived emotional pain.
He suggested it was possible that the brain reduced the blood flow to tissues, lowering levels of oxygen, and causing actual physical pain in the muscles or joints.
And here is where Nicole Sachs and her work come in.
She has found the same TMS effect, not only for muscle pains, but for also things like migraines, irritable bowel syndrome, gastrointestinal issues, chronic constipation, chronic anxiety, sciatica, fibromyalgia, pelvic pain, skin disorders, eczema, auto-immune diseases, all kinds of inflammation, and many more.
She worked with Dr Sarno before his passing, and is now carrying the torch for his ground-breaking work.
Now if you still believe that Wikipedia ‘tells the truth’, you might find something in there about the “mainstream medical industry” not supporting his work; but tell that to the 1000’s of people who have found relief and reversal after 20 years of suffering, and being told by the very same medical “cartel” quoted that their symptoms and diseases are incurable.
One point I like from Nicole Sachs is this: “The pain is not in your head, but the solution is not in altering your physical body.”
She does a great job of explaining the brain science in detail, and here is another snippet from the book:
“The key to dealing with chronic symptoms resides in understanding that a person’s stress, repressed emotions, unresolved trauma, and smaller daily frustrations are causing nervous system dysregulation.”
Which ultimately causes chronic symptoms.
Convinced to invest some time and a small amount of money on a book that could take away years of pain?
Just saying…
In Summary
I have been in this ‘healing’ space for a good 26-years now, and the findings presented in this book – Mind Your Body – bring them all together.
If you are trying to solve any chronic symptoms, and are just using a PHYSICAL approach, I can guarantee you will get a sub-standard and negligible long-term outcome.
We need to acknowledge the true power of our emotions, and the power of the brain to create symptoms in the body as a protective mechanism.
Read or listen to the book, and judge for yourself (rather than listen to the medical industrial complex, who’s business model is based on long-term, expensive treatments, for dis-eases labelled as “incurable”).
My Parting Words
Have I achieved my goal?
Will you trust me on this?
In my mind a $20 investment and some time on a couch, is a no-brainer.
Plus, the book outlines the specific doable practices you can use to retrain the brain, nervous system and body, to reverse chronic symptoms.
Anything that helps us to better manage our EMOTIONS – current or past – is a powerful tool for building self-reliance, autonomy and empowerment.
Sachs also spends time on teaching self-compassion and acceptance, which we can all probably become better at. 😉
And which will only make our lives better.
Do I need to say more?
And for those who are not willing to spend $20 on my say-so, check out her FREE Podcast – The Cure for Chronic Pain.
Also, after you have read or listened to her book, please let me know your thoughts.
Here is a final link to Amazon.com and her book (Mind Your Body).
And know I have zero financial gain from recommending her book. No affiliate links. It’s just me serving you. 🙂
Enjoy learning, growing and leaving chronic pain behind you.
Have a fantabulous day and read yourself into a new mind and body. 🙂
Take care.
Carl
Quotable QUOTE:
“The key to dealing with chronic symptoms resides in understanding that a person’s stress, repressed emotions, unresolved trauma, and smaller daily frustrations are causing nervous system dysregulation.” Nicole J. Sachs (Mind Your Body)
PS: Have you read or listened to this book yet? 18 Ways We Make Life WAY Harder Than It Needs To Be