Autoimmune diseases. Sarno and Garbor Maté

Hi!

I'm a new member 0n this forum, but an old soul in the TMS world. Posted my success story 12 years ago on another forum, which looks to not be active anymore. I had trouble with RSI for a long time and is free of pain ever since. I still journal though. It's a habit I got from TMS that I never quit.

Recently I've read "When the body says no" by Garbor Maté and to me it seems very similar to Sarnos theories. Actually almost the same. Sarno mentions some autoimmune disorders from what I remember but Garbor really takes those theories to another level. It makes so much sense to me.

I think this is very interesting and would love to read about or connect with people who have tried to apply TMS thinking/healing to an autoimmune disorder. If there are anyone on this forum I would love to hear your story, or if anyone know of any other site that discusses that please tell me about it.

Take care.

 

I've heard of TMS healing strategies being applied successfully to healing Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) but obviously haven't done so myself. I believe JanAtheCPA used TMS methodology to heal herself but later came down with RA. She may be able to help answer your questions.

 

Thank you @BruceMC and thank you @JanAtheCPA for your very generous reply.

I've read up on your story from the posts you mentioned as well as the article in Nat Geo. From what I understand you have gotten your RA under control with the TMS approach as well as a low dose of medicine to reduce the immune system. I hope I got that right. Please correct me if I'm wrong. I'm very happy for you that it seems to be going well.

Just to be clear here for you and anyone else who might read this. I don't think people with AI diseases should stop taking their meds and approach a TMS approach completely. I have read some stories about that but they seem to be a lot more rare, so sometimes it feels like people are just throwing in an AI disease with the rest of their symptoms that got healed. Of course I'm still looking for more evidence/stories from people on this. That is why I'm here. This is one of the most interesting subjects.

I can totally understand that "When the body says no" can stir up some strong emotions in a lot of people. It's a heavier book than Sarnos.
I'm totally on board with the theories though.

I haven't been following the TMS theories and the spread of it for some years but it seems to be a lot more books about it now than when I started to learn about it. I'm a little surprised that since "When the body says no" acclaims to be an international bestseller and there is a big(?) community for TMS online that there is so little information about people applying the TMS approach. I also found it strange that Sarno is not mentioned in the book.

This last part is just me thinking out loud and making connections:
My main TMS issue was RSI, and even if it took a while to get rid of, it was pretty easy to battle because it was just pain. I could just do the stuff I wanted to do anyway and ignore the pain knowing what it was and if it ever comes back I can handle it in minutes by mindset. But I have also sometimes skin issues that actually is inflammation. It is very related to stressful emotional events but you can't just tell it to go away. If it's triggered it will take a while to heal, even if I know it's TMS related, since there is actual inflammation. So the only thing I can do is reduce stress and how I handle hard emotional situations in which the stress comes from. This in the long term means to change a part of my personality, like perfectionism, helping others before self, hard worker etc, which I have done a lot but still, this is the hardest part.

Anyways. That is kind of how I look at the AI conditions in terms of trigger and inflammation. I understand AI is a lot more serious of course, but it makes me sad thinking about needing to lower the immune system through meds all life. I hope I find more stories to read about this. I'll post here if I find anything of interest in the future.