Book Use Your Mind To Heal Your Body, a new book by Stephen Conenna, P.E.

The Connena book sounds great. And it is "mercifully short." I want to keep ours short, too.

 

Thanks for posting this, Forest. I'm looking forward to reading it.

 

Hi Everyone!

Forrest--thank you so much for your kind words, for inviting me to join this courageous community, and for sharing about my new book!

I am very excited and privileged to have the opportunity to help others get better faster by sharing what I learned through my own healing experience. I also believe that, as a group, we are on the cutting edge of a methodology that will revolutionize medicine. Dr. Sarno did not merely suggest a new treatment, he discovered a new diagnosis. That is, this new model addresses the source of much chronic pain and not the symptoms.

I love the TMS Wiki and wish I had such a rich resource when I was in pain in 2000. Now that I have been pain free for over 12 years, I look forward to being a contribution to others.

By way of introducing myself, I thought I would share a letter I wrote a part of the "Thank You Dr. Sarno Project." I think this tells you a little bit about myself and captures my gratitude for this work.

Forest and I are discussing the possibility of my being on a podcast where I may have a chance to speak with many of you directly. I would be delighted to do so. Let us know if you are interested or if you have any questions.

Thank you.
Steve

Dr. Sarno,

I am so pleased to have this opportunity to thank you, acknowledge you, and honor you.

Several years ago I limped into your office with excruciating lower back pain that severely impacted the quality of my life for 2 years. Prior to meeting you, I could not walk properly, run or dance without burning pain. I tried physical therapy, chiropractors, acupuncture, deep tissue massage, and even hanging upside down from my ankles for hours (inversion therapy). None of that worked. Then, NYC’s most prominent surgeons recommended back surgery and they had the MRI’s and X-rays to back-up their recommendations. As a last chance effort to avoid surgery, I went to see you. After working with you and Dr. Eric Sherman, one of your gifted psychotherapists, my pain disappeared. Treatment took less than a year and I have now been pain-free for over ten years.

Since I am a professional engineer, I was able to see the disc abnormalities on the MRI’s. It was therefore very difficult to not subscribe to the physical diagnosis given to me by so many doctors. In the face of my skepticism you held your ground and declared that while the pain is real, the source is not the disc but the mind. It was in your certainty that I found the courage to discover, confront and come to terms with painful emotions from which the pain served to distract me. When it was no longer necessary to be distracted from these emotions, the pain ceased to serve a function and went away.

I thank you for your courage to stand in the face of little to no agreement from medical establishment. I acknowledge you for being a doctor who, early on in your medical practice, told the truth to yourself and others when your patients did not get better using popular and lucrative (to medical and insurance companies) treatments—and then found a way to get your patients better. I honor you for distinguishing a new paradigm for the treatment of chronic pain.

The Collins Dictionary defines genius as “a person with exceptional ability, especially of a highly original kind; distinctive spirit or creative nature; a person exerting great influence.” Collins uses the example, “Mozart’s musical genius.” Future generations will no doubt use the phrase, “Dr. Sarno’s medical genius.” In every sense of the word, you are a genius. I am honored and fortunate to have been treated by you and to know you.

With deep love and respect,
Steve
June 2012

 

Hi, Steve. Your new book sounds great. Herbie and I are nearly finished writing a book on our TMS healing and offering
techniques to healing. Forest has been very supportive and encouraging in our project.

I'll get a copy of your book but promise not to lift anything in it for our book.

 

Walt and Herbie--Thank you and congratulations!!
I look forward to reading your book.

 

Thanks, Steve. We're all helping to spread the word of the good doctor Sarno.

 

I'll write a little about Conenna's book to add to the final chapter of Herbie's and my book.

 

Steve, I want to send you a copy of the book I wrote with Herbie (Eric Watson)
that is now published: GOD DOES NOT WANT YOU TO BE IN PAIN.
We add the spiritual element to Dr. Sarno's TMS Mindbody healing philosophy.

Where can I send you a copy? We'd appreciate your opinion and, if possible,
an endorsement. We mention you and recommend your book in ours.

Thanks very much.

Walt Oleksy
waltmax69@gmail.com

 

Congratulations to Walt and Herbie on publishing their book! That is quite an accomplishment!

I think you should create a separate thread to announce this.

 

Great book. It is a very easy read and very helpful from a former Dr. Sarno patient. I use his 6 step method to journaling and find it easy to do it that way.